Does anybody else feel like that picture of our team is some kind of sick joke? It is NOT possible that I look like that. Ever. Yuck.
Oh well.
So we´re still in training. I have to admit I´m pretty much READY like 7 days ago to get out there and get into ministry!!! We´re staying at this Bible college in Palenque MX, sleeping on the floor, etc. The man who runs it is named Eliazar and let me just say he is fabulous. I´ve had a few opportunities to talk to him.
There are very few times that I talk to someone, a believer, and feel a real strengthening in my spirit. I think of when Paul prayed that the Ephesians¨be strengthened in the inner man¨ I really do crave that fellowship. There are the Moms and the Leahs who come along and help me… today it was an Eliazar. He gave me the testimony of how he started this Bible college. He lived in the US since he was 12 and then one day God called him to come back to MX (where he was originally from). Palenque was this place that was too hot, too hard, too expensive to live, etc. He turned to his wife and asked her, are you sure? But they both felt the call of God.
The needed 16 grand for this piece of land, the cheapest they could find. Miraculously, one man immediately gave 10 grand. After a period of waiting and praying, Eliazar began to be concerned about paying the rest, as the first 10 was irrefundible and his time to pay the balance was expiring. So, he looked up a man that he had met on a plane once, who had given him his business card. He had prayed that God would supply the extra 6 grand needed to buy the piece of land. ¨I wasn´t even thinking about a building yet!¨
After contacting this businessman, Eliazar receieves a reply to the effect of the 6 grand, plus… 10 to start building! Above and beyond what he had even asked.
We do know how to give good gifts. But the Father knows better. Sometimes it´s so easy to doubt that provision will come. It´s easy to allow logic to dictate my prayers, keeping in the back of my mind that God is really a plan B if my crafted path doesn´t pan out. That disappoints me. I don´t have great faith… but I do want it.
I know that this will be a year of me offering my mustard seed to the Lord and hoping to move a mountain. Pray as I do, that my inner man has the strength for this adventure.
Love & miss you all!
