“I
am weak, but You are strong.
I am
poor, but You are rich.
I am
burnt out, but You are the light.
I am
unworthy, but You say I am called.”
My prayer on
3/19/13
As I look back in my journal for memories of my month in
Uganda one thing sticks out, every single day I prayed for strength. Every single day I prayed that the Lord
would give me strength for the next day. Every day I walked in that
strength; strength to be able to teach every morning and to go out and
evangelize in the afternoons.
There’s no way I would have been able to make it through
this month without the prayers for strength. In the last week and a half 3 of
my 6 teammates have been lying in bed sick, malaria and typhoid have hit some
of my teammates. They are getting better as the days go by with the help of the
medication they have received. It’s with an answer to many prayers that I share with you that they are healthy now!
With so many of them being sick, it has left the healthy
to pick up ministry for the team. Yesterday, I went out with only one other
teammate to do house visit ministry. Scheduling for school has been hard to
find someone to walk with you when you need to get there. I have failed to make
it to a couple of my classes this week, but it has been good for me to be able
to process through what has been happening.
Here’s a photo with me and some of the
students from school.
My prayers for strength have not gone unnoticed by my
Father in Heaven. I’ve been able to see mountains moved in the lives of the
people around me.
My first day doing ministry my teammate Kayla Jobe and
I were pulled into a house to pray for the sick. Yesterday I had the
opportunity to visit that same house again. One of the ladies was walking in
the healing that the Lord was doing in her. When I had visited her home before
she had sores on her neck, could not walk well, and could not see clearly. Now,
the sores on her neck were gone, she could walk much better, and her sight was
slowly being restored. My God is a God
of healing.
Me as I was praying for more healing over
this grandmother’s life.
Samwell, a man who was an alcoholic for 7 years has been
healed of the bondage. He has come to church twice and we have been able to
encourage and uplift him throughout the week. God has taken his life and radically changed it and the enemy has
also been coming to attack him as well. I believe that God’s power is
overpowering the attacks of the enemy. Samwell has been robbed and had his
friends disown him since his newfound faith, but my God is a mighty God and I wholeheartedly believe He is doing a work.
Read more about Samwell’s story here: http://brandiwilcox.theworldrace.org/?filename=i-am-a-drunkardhttp://brandiwilcox.theworldrace.org/?filename=i-am-a-drunkard
While preaching at church one Sunday, I went on what I
thought was a rabbit trail from my original message of Freedom and I shared a
little about my life. I shared with the congregation that even though my skin
was white, I am not rich. The perception
that many people around the world have is that because I have white skin that I
am rich, but in fact the only money I have in my bank account is because of
someone giving it to me. My Daddy in
Heaven is rich and that is the only way I have a single dollar to my name right
now. As I was sharing this with the
congregation, John, the director of the school, fell to his knees at the Lord’s
conviction on him. I knew there was a reason I was sharing the story and it
didn’t come to acknowledgement until the following Sunday when John shared a
testimony about it to the church. My
rabbit trail of sharing turned into a conviction that has changed a man’s
perspective about people with white skin. There’s a reason and a purpose for everything that is led by the
Spirit.
Here I am while visiting
John and his wife’s home for dinner one night.
Last Sunday we held a “Deliverance Service” at church and
us racers had the chance to pray for people. One man in the congregation, Alex, had come from our invitation to him
from a visit we had made to his home earlier in the week. He asked us
during the home visit how he can know God more and we were able to share with
him that there is a need to read his word and to be in fellowship with others.
We invited him to come to church and he actually showed up hungry for more of
God. During the prayer time, I went to him and prayed for him to actually be
able to know more of God and for him to draw near to his Father in Heaven. I’m
sure there was a lot more to the prayer and it was much more heartfelt. After the service Alex came up to my
teammate Joan and said that the prayer that someone prayed over him was very
powerful and that he was ready to change his life again.
Likki on the left, Alex in the middle, and me
on the right after the church service where Alex made the decision to change
his life.
One day, the Pastor George’s brother, Fred came to visit
and as he was departing he told us that Hebrews 6:10-11 was for us and to look
it up. I immediately picked up my Bible and read the passage to everyone in the
room. The verse really hit home to me and it gave me a word that blessed me a
lot.
“Even
though we speak like this, dear friends, we are confident of better things in your
case – things that accompany salvation. God is not unjust; he will not forget
your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped the people and
continue to help them. We want each of you to show this same diligence to the
very end, in order to make your hope sure.” Hebrews 6:9-11
Fred touched me an encouraged me that day. To know that
He will not forget the work that we are doing as we are out here on the field.
(The
next paragraph is the most important paragraph you will read on this blog.)
Every single day every single thing that happens is for a
purpose. Each day is a preparation for
tomorrow. Each day the Lord speaks to you specific things for specific
people, even when in your mind you are just thinking that it is a rabbit trail
away from the original message. Every day God is writing a story of your life
that He is going to use to impact someone else in the future; the ups, the
downs, the good times, the bad times, the trials, the joys, the pains, all of
it will be used for His glory.
