It’s funny how I don’t realize how much I like instant and
want to see results until I’m not getting results and things instantly. I also don’t realize how faced paced my
life is until it slows down. For example, even a simple thing such as walking,
think about it, how quickly do you walk places? For me rarely do I take my time
and actually enjoy and pay attention to what is going on around me. When I walk somewhere I’m on a mission
to get from A to B fast. When I wash my clothes at home I don’t have to wait
for them to dry because I have a dryer. Same with when I cook meals if I really
needed something cooked fast I could just put it in the microwave. Or if I
don’t have food I can just jump in the car and go get some.
Here life isn’t like that. We walk everywhere that is close
or we can get on the bus. The bus, while the locals claim it comes on the hour,
doesn’t always seem to have a schedule. If I want clean clothes I have to think
ahead to give them enough time to dry in a humid climate. You may be thinking,
surely these things don’t effect your day that much that you would write a blog
about it. Well, actually they do. Not in the way that you may be thinking.
It’s because of how much we get used to having results
instantly that makes this battle for the women so much harder. I think in our
minds we had this view before coming, that we would go in and talk to a woman
and instantly she would tell us she wanted help. Then we maybe wanted instant
Jesus to be poured out on her so that she could be saved and baptized. However,
this isn’t always how these things happen. I believe that Jesus could work a
miracle and have a woman out that fast but we have been finding that it takes a
while to build relationships with these women. They don’t always want to talk to us and so it takes
perseverance to keep going back each week and talking with them. Each time we go out we have a team
prayer walk the area in the day and each night a team is always walking around
prayer walking. When it’s our turn to do this we can be blinded to the value in
it, but this is what is going to bring break through to this area. We believe
that light cannot be we with darkness and when God’s light comes to these
streets the darkness will have to flee.
So this is where we are. We have some women we are able to
talk to and keep going back to but its taking time. Thank you for your prayers
and please continue to pray that these women come out. Pray that all the ladies
on my team keep fighting for these women through prayer and in conversations
with them.
