Here’s a little treat for all you cats out there
….but really here’s more of what went down in Nepal….
Lived in the mountains (or as Nepali’s call them-hills) of Kothe with a pastor and his family.
Climbed these mountains every day to evangelize and to encourage fellow believers.
Preached in a few churches.
Went to a few schools and taught kids english, performed skits, and played games with them.
Met some of the most incredible believers you’ll ever come across…oh and some didn’t even own bibles.
Realized believers of Nepal are mainly a result of healings in their family.
Found out the majority of all Nepali’s are Hindu believers.
Saw one of the biggest Hindu god statues in the world…disgusting.
Went to our pastor’s son’s school for its birthday and DANCED in front of about 200 people…little did they know Americans don’t have tradition dances…
Was able to pray for a Hindu woman who had a tumor on her head…we’re still believing she will be healed and come to know Jesus through that.
Met with a oppressed believer the first night we were in Kothe, prayed for healing in his pain-filled body and for his family to become believers…by the end of the month he was climbing the mountains with us painfree and a joyful spirit.
There is one person though that truly showed me what perserverance is and what the joy of the Lord is. He taught me to be steadfast even through trials, because you truly will receive the crown of life through that. This man was our pastor Tara.
I have never met a man that was so determined to do God’s will. After becoming a believer through his mother’s healing and after being a WITCH DOCTOR, he received a dream from the Lord. This dream was of him doing everything he could-specifically climbing big mountains-to tell people about Jesus. And so he did just that.
Every day he climbs mountain after mountain, hour after hour, to tell people about Jesus. And all the while he does this with a smile on his face and praising the Lord. He literally says HALLELUJAH the whole way.
He’s been rejected time after time. He’s been argued with, thrown out of villages, beaten up, and even stoned. But he keeps on proclaiming the message of Jesus. He knows it’s what God wants him to do.
I want to have that clarity with the Lord. I want to know His will for my life and go full force with it. Like the book “The Barbarian Way” says…
“You see, rhinos can run thirty miles an hour, which is pretty fast when you consider how much weight they’re pulling. Just one problem with this phenomenon. Rhinos can see only thirty feet in front of them. Can you imagine something that large moving in concert as a group, plowing ahead at thirty miles an hour with no idea what’s at thirty-one feet? You would think that they would be far too timid to pick up full steam, that their inability to see far enough ahead would paralyze them to immobility. But with that horn pointing the way, rhinos run forward full steam ahead without apprehension, which leads us to their name. Rhinos moving together at full speed are known as a crash. Even when they’re just hanging around enjoying the watershed, they’re called a crash because of their potential. You’ve got to love that. I think that’s what we’re supposed to be. That’s what happens when we become barbarians and shake free of domestication and civility. The church becomes a crash. We become an unstoppable force. We don’t have to pretend we know the future. Who cares that we can see only thirty feet ahead? Whatever’s at thirty-one feet needs to care that we’re coming and better get out of the way. We need to move together as God’s people, a barbarian tribe, and become the human version of the rhino crash. The future is uncertain, but we need to move toward it with confidence. There’s a future to be created, a humanity to be liberated. We need to stop wasting our time and stop being afraid of what we cannot see and do not know. We need to move forward full force because of what we do know. We may not be able to see what’s at thirty-one feet, but we don’t have to be blind to what’s right in front of us. There’s a world that desperately needs God, a world filled with loneliness, hopelessness, and fear. We have somehow become deaf to a cry that reaches heaven coming from the souls of men. But God hears.”
