These past two days have been a time of eager expectation for everyone out of the fifty four of us on the squad to find out where we will be working at and what we will be doing. Many of us, especially the women, were expecting to work with the victims of the sex trafficking industry since every women on the other squad was doing so. Honestly, it was a bit of a disappointment when some of the people on our squad didn’t get that opportunity.
I remembered an idea that God had given me several days before. I was with my team riding public transportation and fell asleep and when I woke up, God reminded me of an incident from back in Australia. I had met this farmer from Scotland who told me that he was searching for the meaning and purpose of life, but I didn’t share with him the message of Jesus. I didn’t realize back then that it had been a divine appointment from God because I was too focused on my fear and questioned myself. I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to share my faith, demonstrate love, and to bring hope the next time I got it so even though my team isn’t working with those stuck in human trafficking, the opportunity I need to seize is what’s placed in front of me. The same evening that everyone found out their placements, God spoke loudly and clearly to me and I wrote out what he wanted me to say to my squad. I suddenly had all these Scriptural references and insight and specific words to talk about, two of them including Hunger and Wanting the Unwanted.
The next day at 7am when my squad was having a time of singing, celebration, and goodbyes for the teams being split into different areas, the first song that was sang was about hunger. Yes! I knew that what I needed to say was from God. I spoke on Acts 10:9-23, 11:18 and how Peter only wanted to eat certain things and didn’t want to eat what God brought for him. Many of the people in Thailand are unwanted. Many of us didn’t get to work with prostitutes and that’s the most desire area we want to help out in. The other areas that still need helpers and the other people that still need love were unwanted. Isn’t it sad if we didn’t even want the unwanted? The are the ones Jesus wants to love. I went on to finish telling everyone the words that God had given me. Immediately after my speech, my squad mate said that in her research on Thailand, she read about all the untouchables that were living in poverty and won’t even seek any medical care or help because they believed that they were born into this destiny from a former life (reincarnation). Jessi spoke about how these are the unwanted that need to be loved. Soon after, I had several people come up to me telling me that they needed those words. I even had someone tell me that those words were prophetic. I simply told them, it wasn’t me, it was God. That was such a new and powerful experience I had through an encounter with the living God. I am in awe that He chose to speak through me.
Wanted: The Unwanted
