Let me tell you about Togo and what I have learned. In Togo, we’ve had no idea what to expect each day. Sometimes we all preach and sometimes it’s only three people. Sometimes we go to villages, other times we don’t, and if we do, we have no idea what’s going to happen. Of course this would stress anyone out at first.
Over the past few weeks I’ve had to create a couple different sermons to preach because we never know if we’ll go back to the same church or a different one.
When writing my sermons God told me to write about thankfulness. Not only giving thanks in the good times, but also being thankful in the hard times or trails we are going through. I learned fast how this is really easy to teach on. But way more hard to learn how to do. Trying to find things you’re thankful for when having a bad day is not always easy. To thank God when you are going through a bad trail is not easy. God pushed me this month. I surrendered something to him and he acted on it right away. He gave me a response I didn’t want to hear. Something that is really hard to understand. How could I thank him for the answer I didn’t want or I didn’t want to hear??? I am mad at him, I don’t want to be thanking him. But, I took a few steps back and said how can I teach something I am not even practicing? So I sat there…. thinking of what I can thank God for while this trial is happening.
I can thank him for:
-The good/strength that will come out of this trial.
-The people he has put around me to help me with this trial.
-The dance party he gave me because he knows how much I love dancing.
I am still working on them. But if I can do it, I know you can as well. Believe me when I say it’s not easy because I know that. I have no idea the outcome that’s about to happen. I just know I will live for God no matter what happens. I will do this because I know he has a bigger plan for me. I just might not know what that is yet.
