With 26 hours under our belts, Cinco Che, is in full gear and fully under the hand of our living, awesome, loving, crazy about us God. I don’t know if I can capture into words how God ordained the past 26 hours have been, but it has been the most fun, the most worry-free, the most God is in control 26 hours. I want to share about how we ended up living with a Nicaraguan Family, btw I don’t even know their last names!
So about 24 hours ago, we sat in this very internet cafe praying for the Lord to provide for us a place to stay where we could stay for the month, come and go throughout the month, and a place where we could cook to save $$$!!! The Lord gave Brady a picture of a sunflower and told her to follow th star. After we prayed, we set out to meet with our AIM contact, Carlitos and also one of our guitarists-Erick. So as we are making our way out towards the barrios, someone across the street is yelling my name, “JAAAAAAANE!” and walking towards us. Then we see Ezekiel, a 17 year old brother from the local church that went to minister with us during February in Puerto Cabezas. We exchange greetings and he immediately asks us to stay with him. We’ll think about it we say and quickly are on our way to our meeting. After 5 hours, we are exhausted and just wanting to go and eat, still haven’t found a place to stay. All of us felt strongly that the Lord was going to provide somewhere for us to stay, that we didn’t need to book a hostel or stay in the barn that some of our squad mates had spent the past month in Granada. So, we set out, no clue where we are going to lay our heads that night. And then I hear, “JAAAAAAAAAAAANE!!!” being screamed from one of the houses and out pops Ezekiel. He had already asked permission from his family for us to stay, they have two rooms for us to stay in for the month, a kitchen, a microwave, a whirlpool washing machine, satellite tv, a fridge. “Do you have a star?”, I ask. Without skipping a beat, he says yes! Inside and outside their house there are sunflowers and stars basically strewn everywhere. His mom loves sunflowers and apparently stars, suns, and moons. Afterwards, at dinner we find out from this 17 year old man of God that the Lord had woken him up at midnight and put it in his heart to pray about being able to host missionaries, that his parents had built two extra rooms onto their house to provide housing for missionaries, that he had left school early to sit at his house to wait to see if any of us would walk by his house, and that we had JUST happened to walk by when he gave up and was going into town. So at the end of our long day, I found myself sitting on an air mattress that they had blown up for us, sitting at “home” with our amazing Nicaraguan family (whose last name i don’t even know!!) that loves the Lord. When we met them, we explained that they were an answer to our prayers, and they responded that we were an answer to their prayers, that they have been praying and wanting to host missionaries since they built those rooms!!!
Luke 10:5-7 “Whenever you enter someone’s home, first say, ‘May God’s peace be on this house.’ If those who live there are peaceful, the blessing will stand; if they are not the blessing will return to you. Don’t move around from home to home. Stay in one place, eating and drinking what they provide. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, because thos who work deserve their pay.”
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