Come Lord Jesus COME

  We are in Phnom Penh the capital city of Cambodia.

Soon after we arrived in Cambodia we had a brief learning period about the culture, the people, and their history. I heard for the first time about the Genocide that took place a bit over 30 years ago. And then the next day we went on a tour and saw the places where about 2 million Cambodians were killed and tortured. It is hard for me to fathom that just a few years before I was born, across the world, 1/3 of a population was being killed. The Khmer Rouge was a communist party headed by Pol Pot. Of the 2 million people killed were the educated people, teachers, doctors and over 90% of the Christians in Cambodia.

(crossing the border of Thailand to Cambodia)

The touring of the history of the Genocide and the effects that the people are still dealing with today was a brutal awakening.

I read on a sign in the Genocide Museum that during a touring of the museum in September 2006 a young girl identified her missing brother on one of the prisoner photographs in the museum.

I inform you of this history to share with you what God showed me.

Oh how blessed I am Father God for my family. Not a right that I have to them, but a BLESSING directly from you. Even now as I am far away from my family, I am so thankful to God for blessing my life with them. But the tragedy is that they could disappear at any moment; and I desire to be thankful and see the blessing now. I do not want the absence of them to have to be what reminds me of how precious each of them are to me.

God thank you for family, not for the right that I have to have them but for the blessing they are to me from you!

God thank you for freedom that I have taken for granted in America. In Cambodia you are not allowed to pass out tracts or publicly preach or do skits in the streets. Of the people today in Cambodia about 2% have heard about Jesus.

In the U.S. it seems everyone “knows” of Jesus yet few know him personally.

God I pray for Cambodia for their pain, their wounds of what they saw or what they directly experienced through the 30 years of being at war.

Come Lord Jesus Come to Cambodia

Dip their hearts in the streams of Life

Let their pain and their sorrow

Let it be washed away

In the waves of your mercy

Come Lord Jesus Come to Cambodia

Thank you to all of my friends and family who have supported and encouraged me with prayer, e-mails and through your finances.

This quote is from the book The Shack and it states perfectly how I feel about all of YOU

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you-