So my team is headed to a secluded village in India tomorrow to stay for 3 weeks and we are so expectant. We will be preaching every night and then praying for them after the services. During the days, we will be praying for the people throughout the villages and going where the spirit leads us. Most of the people who live there have never heard the name of Jesus.
While I’ve been in Hyderabad for orientation, God’s really been speaking to me about righteousness. He gave me the verse Revelation 19:11, “Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.” God has been revealing to me that my righteousness IN HIM is my weapon, and the word of God (Jesus) is that righteousness in me. I had a friend see a vision of me on a white horse with a sword in my hand, prepared for battle, but the saddle I was sitting on wasn’t fitting perfectly. It was like I was missing something. Almost there but not quite. And I think God provided the missing piece in Psalm 119.
Another friend of mine spoke Psalm 119 over me before I left for the World Race, saying that God had told her that all I would need on the race was Psalm 119. So I’ve been reading and meditating slowly through it. The first couple of verses are, “Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in His ways!” I want to live differently than the non-believing world. I want to live above reproach. To put good things in my mind, so only good things come out. When you think about it, can you clearly SEE the difference in the way we live our lives compared to the rest of the world or do we compromise?
It’s easy to complain here in India. Honestly, I hate Indian food, and people in India become pretty offended if you don’t compliment their food and outwardly show that you like it, so this will be a huge thing for me. Curry’s just not my thing. Neither is having to eat with my fingers. The drivers have also almost hit me numerous times and use their horns as blinkers. It’s also extremely humid and I can’t wear shorts. I have a little measuring cup to shower with, and I have a hole in the ground for a toilet. I can’t call my mom or best friend whenever I want to. I can’t really even talk about Jesus in the city because it’s illegal. BUT, dwelling on righteousness has me thinking about thankfulness and good things. You can be thankful anywhere, and God is speaking to me a ton in the midst of it all. Dwelling on His word, on Jesus.
So here I am standing for righteousness. We will be experiencing a lot of spiritual warfare in the village we are going to so I think it’s important to understand who we are and what we were made for. I want to be the oak of righteousness Isaiah talks about in chapter 61. And like Jesus talks about in the beatitudes. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.”
Our squad’s verse is Psalm 27:4, “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life; to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.” I want to dwell in His house, to be focused on that one thing. And that calls for me to stand for righteousness, His true word. Nothing fake. That’s what I feel these people need. Pray for the true gospel, the true righteous Savior to be seen in us.
