Wow, this week was INSANE. I can’t believe all of the wonderful things that God has already done in my life. The people here are so amazing, so nice, and so loving. Cambodia is already taking my heart. This week I had the opportunity to work with a school close enough to bike to from my host home. The kids are so crazy. Y’all I have no idea where they get their energy from, other than Jesus himself was boasting through their lungs when they would scream, “GOODBYE TEACHER, SEE YOU TOMORROW, GOOD. LUCK. TO. YOU.” My heart would melt every single time. They definitely imprinted within me what having childlike faith really means. One thing I didn’t expect to happen was the very real power of spiritual warfare that we were going through being in one specific room in the school. This is such a crazy feeling I’ve never experience in my life. To give you some backstory to this thing, we were working with a Buddhist school that graciously let us sit in on classes and help teach classes and even sometimes run the class on our own. This whole time we were there, Madi, Hannah, and I were invited to help this one teacher out with her class, but right when we stepped in the room something wasn’t right. We all were overcome with the feeling of exhaustion. It was weird because our house was close to the school so it wasn’t that we had to bike 12 miles to get there. Everyone had a good night’s rest and was excited about ministry but for some reason when we would walk into the room we were tired, to the point I had to fight to keep my eyes open. I was sitting in my seat and it felt like I was going to see angels fighting right in front of me. It was so crazy, it even sounds stupid typing it out but holy crap it was the worst feeling. I was trying so hard to fight my exhaustion and Satan’s voice in my head saying, “It’s okay to shut your eyes for just a moment.” We went back to the house and talked to Abigail, who’s our leader, and she opened our eyes to how real our spiritual battle with the devil is. This fired me up about acknowledging my authority God has given us to fight against the evil in this world. I just have to keep fighting and praying that God will stay so present in our time with each one of our ministries. Already I’ve learned, not exactly how to control my thoughts when Satan is attacking me, but more along the lines of acknowledging how real he is. And even more importantly how big my God is, knowing he will take care of me from beginning to end in every circumstance.
To keep growing in my faith and learning about my identity in Christ I still need funding! Thank you so much for getting me this far in the race already and I really can’t do this without you. God has called me to this ministry and I believe he has such big plans for me within these nine months and I’m only 4,855 dollars away from being fully funded!!
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