Get Out of My Chicken

hear you.” Jeremiah 29:11-12

               We are in KENYA! We were supposed to be traveling to Uganda from Kenya but plans have changed and we are staying here for the month. I think that I can speak for our entire squad when I say “Praise God”. I am absolutely in love with this entire continent. The stars are amazing, the people are so beautiful, and it is nothing like the Middle East. Everyone is nice here and they all want to know where you are from. “Nezumu” aka white people are a rare site to these people and they all want to know what you are doing here. We are finally free to say that we are missionaries. Here is spread the good news and the love of Jesus.

               God has taken me into a season of intercession. I just finished reading the book “Red Moon Rising” by Pete Greig. It is the story about 24-7 prayer rooms and a international movement to pray for months and years at a time without ceasing. It was so moving and I felt God moving me to enter this season.   I have recently acquired some International House of Prayer music from a few friends on the Race with me. Every day I spend at least thirty minutes in prayer from all different kinds of things. Half the time I am not even sure what I am praying for. 

“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.” Romans 8:26-27. 

 

               This is an incredible feeling for me because I have never liked praying and usually suffered through it. Now I am excited to wake up and be in the presence of God and I can’t wait to spend time in prayer and just being still in His presence. “Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10. I am excited to spend time in the Word. 

 

P.S.  the word chicken sounds a lot like kitchen…it is a running joke.