“Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
” I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me….” – Jesus (John 14:30)
Amen.
Ok. So I want to let you all know how Jesus is moving and what happened this past month in Uganda.
A quick recap since I haven’t blogged since mid February; we spent the month of February going nonstop, travelling to different bush towns, teaching in schools, proclaiming Jesus door to door, preaching in the town and in the churches, hospital visits, prison visits….you name it. So even though it was a short month…we were EXHAUSTED. Also it was the most spiritual warfare I have seen yet on the race. This included, witchcraft, sacrifices, demon worship, witch doctors throwing curses, night terrors, etc. Our team and team Oasis were together in February and we were literally on the front lines. We woke up in the middle of the night pretty much every night, we worked from early morning to late evening, by the end of the 3 weeks I was the only one in a household of 12 who didn’t get malaria or typhoid (or both). So needless to say, it was emotionally, physically, spiritually and mentally exhausting and it was beautiful. It was beautiful because we lived on the verse that says Christ is made perfect in our weakness and goodness knows halfway through there was nothing more we could give, that the rest was all Jesus. As exhausting as it was it was one of my most favorite months thus far on the race.
It was beautiful evidence of the fact that maybe we can’t “tangibly” see Jesus Christ (i.e. in person form right in front of us all the time) BUT we do see the effects of Him and it is the most beautiful, most glorious thing I have ever seen with my own eyes. And that is what happened this month. Probably between 500 to 700 people accepted Christ while we were in Uganda, people were healed…and we, literally, saw the blind see, the lame walk, the sick healed, and yes THE DEAD WERE RAISED (Check it out…on the World Race website you can search for a blog entitled “In the name of Jesus, Breathe.”)!!!! It’s incredible!
I mean praise Jesus, that He is STILL in the business of redeeming His people. His people who were lost but are now found. We serve a beautiful, amazing God. A God who is MIGHTY to save, glorious, creator of the UNIVERSE, who loves us with a FURIOUS maddening love that awakens the soul and ignites the heart and creates in us a passion and a love for Him that we never knew was possible. His power is LIMITLESS. There is absolutely nothing that God cannot do. I can’t even fathom it. I can’t.
And that is who I love. I love Him, with a love that doesn’t make sense, that would send me around the world in a year doing things I never dreamed I would EVER be doing…but because Jesus tells us that in this world we’ll have trials, to take HEART because He has OVERCOME THE WORLD. And that is where my trust is. In Him.
