You will seek Me, and find Me
Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3
Greetings everyone!!
I think of you everyday and pr@y that you are experiencing the incredible, overwhelming power and Presence of G0d as you live with, walk with, and put your hope in H!m!! He is at work all around each of us, and I pr@y our hearts, minds, bodies, and sp!r!ts are one with Him that He might accomplish EVERY SINGLE THING He created us to accomplish!!
Our G0d is busy and active here in M@li!! I am seeing Him and hearing from other servants here of His great movements and revelations of Himself to individuals and groups of people who are seeking Him. I want to thank you for your pr@yers and your thoughts toward the people of M@li!! There are great struggles in this country–some you hear of on the news and some you do not. There is a battle going on for the souls of this nation, and the current ruler does not want to give up his power and influence! Please keep pr@ying for p3ace in M@li and around the world. Pr@y for the outpouring of G0d’s Sp!r!t to reveal The Truth, The Way, and The Life to those who do not know.
I want to share with you one amazing thing G0d has begun since my return. It is one way He has been at work answering your pr@yers.
Shortly after my arrival and before I was in the full swing of everything here, a colleague asked me if I would teach his beginner English class while he was traveling. I agreed to do that and enjoyed meeting the students–mostly college students studying English. This class is an opportunity for them to interact with native English speakers and enhance what they are learning at the university.
The first day, the door was wide open for me to share my f@ith and who G0d was to me. I was not expecting that but I walked right through it. As a result, there were 2 students at the end of the week who came to talk to me privately. M0 said, “I am a new f0ll0wer and I need to know about how Chr!sti@ns pr@y. Can you help me?” The Ami said, “I would like to study more about the Bible. Would you do that with me?” At that moment I was amazed simply because I thought I was just going to fill in for a friend, but G0d had been at work in the lives of 2 of these students.
I met these students just before Kim came and just before she had shared with me how G0d was leading her to prepare some things on pr@yer. So this became a natural beginning for something G0d had placed on my heart before returning…start some small groups where people can come to find answers to their questions, hear G0d’s Word and allow Him to write it on their hearts.
The first Friday Kim was here we had our first group and we ALL felt the power and Presence of G0d as we shared about how we as individuals knew Him. We were beginning the study on pr@yer and talking about how pr@yer is the very essence of our relationship with G0d. I sat amazed because of how G0d had brought all of that together. The two students, my househelper, Kim, D@n, and I sat together as G0d poured out His Presence and showed Himself to each of us that day. It was only the beginning.
Each Friday afternoon, whoever can come gathers to continue talking about the pr@yers of a f0ll0wer of Jss. The group has added a few members–some of us are f0ll0wers and some of us are seekers.
Yesterday, Ami, D@n, and I were the only ones who made it. I just love how G0d arranges things so that His plans and purposes are fulfilled. Ami is a seeker. She had an encounter with G0d as she watched him do a miracle for her father when he was very sick–preparing to die. She is a young woman with dreams, determination, resolve to do something meaningful with her life. She has been volunteering for the M@li@n R3d Cr0ss for 3 years and will continue that for one more year. She came early and D@n came late thinking he would help the others find their way to my new house. Instead of doing our regular planned study on pr@yer, Ami had some questions she wanted to ask. She said, “Someone told me that Jss is coming back. Is that true?” We spent time sharing scr!pture with her …letting her read it for herself and then talking about it. She listened intently. Then she said, “The same person who told me that said there is someone else coming. Do you know about that?” This led to a discussion about the Ant!-Chr!st and so much more. It was a G0d given time to sit with Ami alone so that she had the freedom to seek answers to things she had heard, a time to share G0d’s Word with her.
D@n took the opportunity to ask her a question also. He asked her, “What do you think and how do you understand when Jss is called the Son of G0d?” She gave an answer but really came back to the fact that it was something really too big for her to understand. We spent the rest of the time together sharing Scripture, G0d’s Story, and the Truth about how Jss was G0d’s Son and the purpose for His coming. The G00d News was clearly explained to Ami and she was taking every single thing into her mind. We left Ami with this truth…”Call to G0d yourself, ask Him to show Himself to you, to reveal the truth to you about who Jss is, and show you the way to know Him and f0ll0w Him.”
I ask you to continue to pr@y for Ami, M0, Ya, D@n, me and others who join us. Pr@y that Ami will call out to G0d and that He will answer her and show her great and unsearchable things she does not know. Pr@y that this group will be a safe place where f0ll0wers and non f0ll0wers can come to seek and find….