Thursday, January 26, 2012

You See, What Had Happened Was...

I am a believer.

I wonder about things way too often sometimes. I usually think about things in a million different ways and think of two million different outcomes. This usually happens until I realize how crazy I've driven myself and how I've let the fear of people and their opinions drive my conclusions. When in fact, I know that it's only one person that I need to be counting on. He's always the answer to every question. Always the rhyme and reason. So, here are a few things that have happened in the past week...

I've been wanting to be used by God in every way. I want to be there for people, love them, pray with and for them, be available, partner with God to help people. So there we were: Talitha, Esther, and Myself. We wanted to go to the beach. We rarely get any "free" time between class, worship, lectures, homework, and ministry. So Saturday was our chance to get our toes in the sand. We were stopped talking about how we were going to get to this beach since it was pretty far. Talitha says a prayer asking God for "someone really nice" to give us a ride. We were just standing there when I look and see this lady with her 12 year old daughter walking towards us. The mom starts waving us down. I call the girls and we walk over to her. She asks us where we are from and proceed to tell her about YWAM. And she tells us her whole family went to YWAM and they've lived on base ever since. She asks us where we are headed because she has to go to the post office anyway. Our stop was right along the way. SWEET!!!!! As soon as we are getting settled and sharing our YWAM stories, this woman just begins to pour her heart out. She moved back to the base in pursuing God and they were so eager to "just do something" for God that she says they didn't wait for Him to say yes. They arrived and almost immediately her husband became VERY ill. So much so that he had to be flown back to the main land (aka where the rest of us live haha). Her family just started to crumble. She left her job, the family was split, they were losing money and peace by the day. She was very sad. My friends and I could tell that she was just so broken from all of this. The very car we were in became a place of comfort. We began praying for her and with her. We just cried out on her behalf. This was all before we even pulled out of the parking lot, haha.

Monday night was time to get to know some other people. It was just going to be a normal night for me but Gid had other plans. I got to meet some people who had been abused, in every sense of the word. Details too horrifying to describe but what God did that night was another kind of indescribable. Sometimes people that are broken think that they're supposed to be. I don't agree with that. The words that God gave us to share with these people and the visions we received were just proof of a God that wants more and loves more than we could ever imagine. Tears of joy, healing, and new found hope were running down faces. This is the kind of stuff that I live for. Luke 4:18!!! God showing up and just wrecking the plans of the enemy. It's a humbling honor to be with God and seeing the stuff He's doing.

This week I received my outreach location. After much prayer and anticipation, God has called me and a team of 14 others to Mozambique!!!! We are going to the "bush-bush", as Heidi Baker likes to call it :) I will actually be working with Heidi Baker in Iris Ministries :D (I didn't know that until yesterday!) I am so happyyyyy! These are orphan children and we are actually going to be living in the poorest part of the entire country. There is great need in the entire surrounding villages. I will post pictures and more updates but just think: those commercials on tv about helping the poor have nothing on this part of Mozambique. The need is GREAT! God confirmed through 3 people on our team. He said we are to go to "the poorest part of the nation". So I'm getting ready! Ready to help lives know true change in Him. God has to help me get there, I am in need of $3,500 in order to make it there. But I have to give HGod glory because I started off with needing $12,000! And He has provided every single cent through people like you.

You see, what had happened was...God had a plan and here I am.

Thank You :)

1 comment:

  1. God sent you manna! Just what you need for the day! Never too much and never too little!
    I am thinking about you and praying for you in AFRICA!
    Sending love to you in the Bush bush!
    Hugs,
    Lilly

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