Last month something INCREDIBLE happened and I have to tell you all about it.
Our ministry at last month was at Remember Nhu if you dont know what Remember Nhu is then please read my blog about it http://nathanhatton.theworldrace.org/welcome-to-thailand-9-its-crazy-here and/or visit the website www.remembernhu.org
THE STORY
It was a Sunday morning and on Sunday's all the children and staff at Remember Nhu come together and do church. There is about a hundred or so people in the room, the children had prepared songs and dances just like every Sunday morning. It was just another regular Sunday morning service at Remember Nhu.
The Thursday before this I felt God asking me to preach I didnt know what on exactly I just knew he wanted me to. So I talked to the people in charge and volunteered. I felt that he wanted me to preach on Hope and Restoration and I knew He wanted me to say some hard things. Which I wasn't looking forward to because the Sunday before that the sermon on was the importance of having friends. Which was a great sermon, but a lot lighter than the one that God was asking me to preach on.
So Sunday morning comes around the room is filled with women from 13 to 60 mostly all with troubled pasts when it comes to men and abuse. I felt like I followed the spirit and said what he wanted me to say, even though some people were uneasy with what was being said. I knew I had to say it. I preached for about 30 minutes on Isaiah 40:31 "I will soar on wings like eagles, I will walk and not grow weary, I will run and not faint." Sometimes with going through things we feel as if its easy and were soaring, but other times we have to walk and run and trust in him and we will not faint. Its easy for us to sit in our stuff, but when he asks us to walk it gets a little harder. Sometimes forgiveness and redemption requires things happening on our end. We have to forgive, we have to make the call, we have to do something, we have to run towards the ugly places.
This was pretty much the jist of what I said, heres the really cool part though. In the history of Remember Nhu which has being going for seven years. No one has ever done an alter call, no one has asked if any one needs prayer. I did not know this before I felt God asking me to do an alter call, but thats exactly what happened. Me and some other Racers opened up the pulpit. No one came forward but they didnt need to, out of the corner of my eye I saw a lady one of the house mothers weeping.
I felt God telling me go kneel at her feet and say sorry for the wrongs men have caused he in her life. So I went over knelt at her feet held her hands and apologized or all the crap men have put her through in her life. I didnt know her story or even her name but I knew there was pain there, and what was said in the sermon hit past offences.
That day God brought some healing and restoration to her life! I will always thank God for leading me and my brothers and sisters. Lives were changed and LOVE was evident.
