India part 1 of 3
So we entered into India late Tuesday night.. May 3rd and already we felt a difference in this place. The spiritual darkness sits over India like a blanket. After gathering our things and waiting outside to be picked up we collected many stares and questionable looks. We didn’t have tickets to our contact location so we have stayed the past two nights at an orphanage here in New Dehli. It is a blessing I don’t have to stay here all month because I have already fallen in love with all the children, I would be a complete mess leaving! This morning Kim and I walked them to the school bus stop and they were hanging out of the bus to say goodbye to us!
They call us deedee which means sister. One of the women that works here, she is 25, is in bible school and she is trying to go to the states for schooling somewhere in Texas. And after talking to her I asked her what her favorite bible verse and she said Psalm 27:10.. I looked it up right in front of her and read it aloud- “Even if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will hold me close” and I looked at her as she as looking at me and I asked her if she was an orphan as well and she said yes. I have a special place in my heart for this woman. It is so comforting to know that she looks to the heavenly father for her acceptance and inheritance instead of searching this world for that.
There is another little girl here, her name is Asha, and she looks a little different than the rest.
She def looks more thai/asian.
She is very young, and beautiful. We asked the man that runs the place for her story and found out that parents left her at the hospital when she was only a few days old. I continue to stare at the little girl in the face and into her wide eyes. At first I was so sad for her and the fact hat her parents didn’t want her and she was abandoned. But then I started to think, she hasn’t been abandoned. God had a specific plan for this child and I know she will do great things. 
She is in such a better place now than she would have ever been. And to know that God has a purpose for her life is so comforting. This place is a family and she is shown love and acceptance. God is so evident in this home.. You can feel it all over this place.
Our first day here I was taking a nap and Rachel said she looked in the girls room and all the girls were praying for each other without any adults in the room. And in the boys room the boys were carrying on a bible study.. On their own. WHAT!? That’s just crazy, it just makes me ashamed and the way we baby the children in the church back home. This kids have potential to really worship God and to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I feel like the “church” back home won’t pour into the children like they should.. They tell them all the cute stories and sing the redundant bible story songs- but this trip has shown me how much more children are capable of. Last month we were holding a Burmese Sunday school and we were singing father Abraham and the kids looked at us so bored like what is this nonsense? Then we asked them to sing and a few came up front with a guitar and the entire room of kids started worshiping actual worship songs- with their eyes closed and hands raised up in surrender to God.
We have continued to see this type of worship among all the children around the world. Why then do the children at home have no idea about what real worship is all about? My prayer is that we will stop trying to “shelter” the next generation of God’s chosen, and allow them the opportunity to experience Gods presence and His voice. The faith of a child is what we should all strive to have, so why don’t we let the children have that faith as well? Lets teach them about the spirit, about the presence of God, about spending time with their Heavenly father.. And just being in his arms. Its awesome to me that these children who have no parents can actually experience that.. And know what it feels like. I was just listening to a Bill Johnson pod cast and he says “children don’t get a junior size holy ghost” But it is so true.. The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is the same spirit that lives in these children!
india part 2 and 3 to come this week! 🙂
