Update: we raised a total of 3,000 USD for our amazing Zambian family. With that the family was blessed & prayers were answered in so many ways: 2 youngest girls and the two oldest children educations are fully funded for the year. The middle child got a new keyboard and didn’t take his hands off the keys for 48 hours. The two churches received 200 bibles and funds for renovations.
God is so good. You people are faithful and aren’t going unseen by not only God but the Zambian people. We made sure to tell them it was ALL from our American supporters, which they freaked out and UNCEASINGLY prayed and thanked y’all.
We Cant wait to all be reunited in heaven one day!!!!
Month 9 was hard, amazing, annoying, full of life, full of defeat, full of love & victory all at the same time.
I have so many stories: some sad, some happy, some weird, some hilarious & some amazing God moments that I’ll never forget.
(Call me in two months for coffee if ya wanna know.)
But yet again God wrecked my heart and I just have to share.
Day after day my mind has been set on the things of home in America. Whether it’s future work, future relationships, family, friends, nights out on the town, my clothes, my bed, my pets, our culture, our trash pick up system, our fresh air, our mindset, our love for humanity and the earth.
LITERALLY EVERYTHING. I’m restless and excited for home. (Don’t get me wrong.. not a bad thing until it consumes me.)
My eyes were only set on MY world and MY heart and now it’s cracked but with God’s grace and perspective, He’s glueing me back together.
I’m so thankful.
Mathew 16:22-33 “Peter took him (Jesus) aside and began to rebuke him, saying “far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” (Talking about Jesus’s death) But Jesus turned to Peter and said, “get behind me Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
I used to think Jesus is over-reacting a little… but He’s not. I get it now.
Any time we shift our perspective from the things of God, we shift to the things of Satan, (which in a nice christianese term would be “the world.”)
BUT: how many battles have I lost because of my selfishness? How many God moments did I miss? How many people did I not see, because my eyes were only set on me?
This war is NOT between flesh and blood. EVER.
People aren’t my problem. Cultures aren’t my problem. Religions aren’t my problem. My present isn’t my problem. Problems aren’t my problem.
My perspective is my problem.
I need Jesus’s perspective. I need to wake up and put my Jesus glasses on. EVERY. SINGLE. MORNING.
I just NEED more and more of Jesus.
We might hate how different people live their lives, how they treat people, how they victimize themselves, how they talk, how they reason and think…
BUT isn’t that all the more reason to choose to SEE them through the eyes of Jesus, love them like He loves and fight like hell for them!?
The more my perspective shifts, the more I need to pray. The more I have to fight. The more I need to set my eyes on God.
Two more months. Two more countries. Countless more people and opportunities. And an endless battle with and everlasting God.
Pray for me and much love,
– Katie B
