Hiking miles through wet clay roads and tall grasses.
I was carrying a bag of onions.
No discussions were taking place, we simply followed and prayed to ourselves.
Auntie Julia (one of the care takers of our children’s home in Africa) led the way. Three of us were going to our first feeding.
8 families in the village in desperate need of food.
I thought were going to spread some smiles and drop off the food, and that would be the end of it. As always, God has other arrangements.
We made it to a little shack in the middle of nowhere. Tall grasses surrounded us. A few goats and chickens roamed the property. I stared straight ahead as an old man and his family gathered benches and set them up in a circle.
Auntie Julia explained in broken English,”We will pray and sing in the SiSwati language”….sounds simple enough right….”and then you will bring the Word of God to these people”.
My two teammates looked at me and I knew what God was asking. My heart started to pound. I pleaded for them to start praying that these people would understand. “God if you can also allow Auntie Julia to understand since she is translating that would be great too.” …. “Oh and God can you lay a message on my heart for them.” As a Bible passage I requested was being read in SiSwati, God completely gave me a crazy peace.
As words began to pour out of my mouth I was realizing that they were not the words I was rehearsing in my head. It was literally as if God was changing what I wanted to say into what He wanted this family to hear. Once the message was finished I was slightly uncertain, and the old man smiled with such peace. He thanked us and told us that God had just spoken to him through this teaching. He needed to know that God would provide… just then we got to bless him with the bags of food.
Read Psalm 91 today if you are struck with fear in Kingdom work…. God will work in and through you.
Throughout the month of Swaziland, I doubted the work that God wanted to do in and through us. I doubted we would see these children we loved saved. I doubted the building they asked a group of girls to demolish would collapse. I doubted I would ever be able to worship God with the amount of freedom I discovered in this land. I doubted my heart could be trapped in a place where the conveniences of life do not exist.
But God does not fear.
He does not doubt.
He does things we can not explain.
And since I am made in His image.
I want to strive to do the same.
