So I havent posted in a while, so I feel like I should.
It has been a crazy few months. My prayer for past few months have been for preparation. Mental, physical, but mostly spiritual preparation. It is a big thing that I am going to be doing. Traveling the world, meeting new people, experiencing new cultures, fulling Jesus’s last request to us, to go into the nations and share who he was and preach the good news that he came and died for our sins.
I got to thinking about the Great Commission (Mark 16:15-18) and what the Gospel is. From going into the nations, baptize, casting out demons, speaking in tongues, picking up snakes, and laying hands on the sick and healing coming to them. I have really been digging into each instance in the bible where Jesus and his disciples did these things.
My prayer for preparation has been on going. I am nervous to go on the trip. When ever you get any size of group of people together peoples personality’s clash. No one wants conflict in there lives, yet I also know that it is going to happen at some point with me and everyone else while on the trip. I tend to lean to more of a harsh/blunt way with words at times. I currently live with two guys. I have know both of these guys for many years and they are both dear friends of mine. Now living with roommates is tough. I was having problems with one of them and I did not know how to approach the conversation because I knew if I tried to force it I would be trying prove my point and the conversation could be become heated within a matter of minutes. I spent days in prayer about how the conversation, that the words would come and be intertwined with both love and truth. I got to the point to where one night at 2am in the morning I just got on my knees before his door and just gave our friendship over to God. That he would be the one to lead the conversation. I was at the place where I was considering even moving out from where I was to get away from it. Not even within 24 hours God lead that conversation to happen and it went so much better that I could have ever planned it to be.
Jesus see us where we are at. In our everyday lives, work, with friends, at 2 am in the morning pleading with him. He sees us and hears us always.
Love Joe
