Sorry I havent posted in a while! Its been kind of crazy over here and I have hardly been at home since arriving back in the USA.
Jordan was such an incredible experience. The Lord did so much in my heart and life and taught me a lot about what it means to be a servant. What a great example these servants of God are of giving up everything for the cause of Christ. They don't live in comfort zones, with great food and easy jobs but the sacrifice their home, safety and comfort so that people can taste what true life in CHRIST!
The first night we got there very late, but I awoke in a startle the next morning as I heard someone singing and chanting in a foreign language. I immediately jumped out of bed and attempted to close our cracked window. What I was hearing was the Muslims call to prayer at 5:00 AM!!! My spirt was quenched and an eery feeling swarmed into my room as my eyes were opened to the spiritual warfare at hand. My roommate ( Tori :) ) and I realizing that there was a battle at hand, started to claim victory in the war. We both began to pray out loud and lift up our voices in song singing " In the quiet, in the stillness I know that YOU are GOD.................There is no one else for me, None but JESUS, crucified to set me free, now I live to bring HIM praise" and speaking the name above all names over and over again. Feeling as if God had awoken us up for a reason, we got scripture out and just began to read it and pray it out loud. That was the sweetest time of praise to our Lord Jesus! After a while we went back to sleep, I just laid in my bed unable to sleep, silently crying out to God. As tears rolled down my cheek I asked the Lord for forgiveness of all of my selfishness, and worldliness when all that should matter is telling this lost world about true life in Jesus. I felt such conviction, of how so many times I place so many of my thoughts and actions on outward beauty and significance, God just came and touched my heart and told me that its not what I look like that matters but what I do with what I have been given. What a gift of life we have been given, and there is so many people who do not know HIM and are deceived by the ways of this world. What pride I am living in by keeping this gift inside! This is such a struggle for me.
God not only woke me up from my sleep that night but awoke my heart for the nations need for HIM!
More stories to come later: This picture is a view of what we were blessed with viewing each day where we stayed
I thought I posted this comment the night I read this a few weeks back . . . so timely that we talked in SS about the Light to the Nations. I hope this works this time. Love you and am encouraged by your walk.
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