The first 4 months of ministry have mostly consisted of children or manual labor.
This month was so different but exactly what my soul had been craving. We got to do SO many different things throughout the month – interceding on behalf of the city at the top of a mountain, visiting & praying over leper’s, go into temples and intercede for those there, visit a children’s school to serve food & do dishes, visit a widows home, travel to Chitwan & Pokhara to share the good news and sooooo much more! You could say it was a pretty jammed tight month and very worth it.
But I wanna talk about one special visit we made.
We got the chance to go to a drug rehabilitation program for women. There were only 3 women in the program, all around my age and younger. I was very intrigued by one of the girls. We got to hear part of her story and how she came to know Christ through the program, walking away from her Hindu background. How desperately she wanted her family to know Him.
Let me back up and tell you what the Lord had been revealing to me back in India. During one of my quiet times I asked the Lord to give me a gift. I heard ‘I’m giving you the gift of prophecy’. I immediately said ‘oh no, I’ll take another one’.
But He has been so gentle and very persistent.
During worship a couple weeks ago with my team, Sarah said ‘I feel like the Lord is saying that someone is going to get the gift of prophecy, it’s coming.’ WHAAAT AHHH! I hadn’t told anyone about this yet so it HAD to be the Spirit. I finally sat before the Lord and told Him I will accept His gift. But I was real nervous about it.
So back to the sweet girl at the rehab program. As we begin to pray over her, I had to stop praying because I got this image of her walking into her parents’ home confidently, radiating the joy of the Lord. She then walks back out with her dad holding her hand and her mom holding the other, all full of joy going out to change their community. I was blown away! Never had I ever gotten an image like that before.
We are putting our shoes on outside when I tell Carly that I just had a cool image of her, Carly immediately shoos me back inside and said ‘GO tell her, she needs to know that!’. So I go in and sit in front of her and begin to tell her this image. She LIGHTS up and said ‘REALLY?!’ So I got to encourage her to keep on pressing in on Him because He is faithful and they WILL come to know Him because of her, regardless of how young she is.
I almost let fear stop me from sharing.
I almost didn’t share hope with her.
I told the Lord I didn’t want that gift but He has already given me the chance to walk in it multiple times and so far it has been beautiful.
I am 100% not perfect & will 100% mess up. But I’m so okay with that if it means that the one gets a glimpse of hope from Our Good Father.
One of my teammates even snapped this photo of us!
I’m so thankful for a good Father who gives good gifts. I’m so thankful for a Father who knows me better than I know myself. Just wow.
xo,
ky
