“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials
of many kinds, because you know the testing of your faith develops
perseverance. Perseverance must
finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”
James 1:1-4
Certainly children weren’t made for the streets. The life that she has known is not even
imaginable being there. An
unsheltered home. Certainly this is not how it is suppose to be. Her child broken heart but so much joy
on her face. She is desperate for
hope by just being speechless. This can’t be what you saw Lord. She is looking at me. Let the kingdom come in my heart. Let me love her like Jesus. To see past the illness or distraction
and see the soul that needs to know the Lord.
I don’t the answers to all of life. But what I do know is I can stay by her
side and love her like Jesus.
Lincoln Brewster put my prayer
for this month in some powerful words…
“I will live to carry your compassion
The love the world
that is broken
To be your hands and
feet
I will give with life
that I have been given
And go beyond
religion
To see the world be
changed
For the power of your
name”
My team and Judah have been given the opportunity this month
to work at the dump in Manila. My
prayer since learning more about the dump has been to have the Lord’s eyes of
compassion for these people I will come in contact with over the next
month. When we made it to the dump
I felt as if the Lord had given me those eyes I had prayed for. I saw that even those people had
nothing they still had a smile on their face and joy in their heart. But I didn’t know how I could be his
hands and feet. Then one of our
leaders Jake, challenged me. He
told me I had three weeks to do that. Don’t run away from it, don’t be
scared. Just be those hands and feet. Still not knowing how this is going to
pan out but knowing the Lord has given me this opportunity and I can’t not wait to see what I am going to experience.
Update: My team and Judah will be staying at a hostel in
Manila for the next three weeks until the 24th working at the
dump. Just pouring our lives into
these people. Being his hands and
feet. Please keep us in your prayers.
We will be flying to Hong Kong on the 26th for debrief and
then head to China.
