So after being asked to stay back in Calcutta another couple of weeks, I’m pretty sure it was a unanimous yes. Especially all that we had been hearing God was doing there. Of course we wanted to stay and be a part of it. So Dragon Fish Storm men stayed back with our trusty leader Jeremy and we did the thing. It was amazing! We saw tons of people healed. We saw tons of people who weren’t healed as well. Which was also pretty cool because most of them kept coming back and coming back for prayer, knowing that we were praying in the name of Jesus. We were able to form some great relationships as well. In which we were able to have the opportunity to partner with another ministry who was willing to continue those relationships after we have left.
I think for the Hindu religion it”s easy to accept Jesus but where it gets tricky is when you want to explain Jesus as God, the only God. That’s when you lose them. 33 billion or 33 million Gods, who really knows how many, everything is a God to them. So to say there’s only one true living God. Well honestly they have 33 million reasons to believe otherwise. This is when you need people who know what they’re doing. This is where we really have to press in and educate the people on what and why it is, that we believe what we believe. There wasn’t even close to enough time to get into how to truly disciple these people and this was where I once again have found my frustration with short term missions. None the less we were able to form great relationships and pass those relationships off to some pretty amazing dudes in hopes of further discipleship.
Don’t get me wrong I love what we’re doing. I love the fact that we get what most people would think is a long time in a country. Well if you’re looking at it from a “missions trip” perspective yeah 1 month in a country is a descent amount of time. What I’m seeing though and I guess yeah, it could be a frustration but I don’t want to seem upset about it. We simply have an eternal vision and not enough time, if that makes any sense? I don’t believe that any of us, AIM, The World Race, Expedition, Dragon Fish Storm are looking at what we’re doing as a one month and we’re out of there. We want to see kingdom come, we want to see earth as it is in heaven. AND we are seeing that! And maybe the impact we all are making is much bigger then I can see. That wouldn’t surprise me at all and honestly the more I’m writing this the more I’m seeing where my “frustration” is coming from, but that is Expedition, we are pioneering new stuff. We are going to places we haven’t been for the first time. We are meeting with people we’ve never met and we are forming and building new relationships all around the world. It’s pretty cool how writing as I go processes what I thought to be an emotion about something. When it really was a slight wall my mind wasn’t seeing over. I think sometimes I really just need to bring my eyes back to earth and look around. We’re day in and day out bustin our tales for the kingdom, because we want to! Our hearts are in the same place. We long to see God show up in the places we go. We are leaving a massive whirlwind behind us as we go.
It’s crazy to think about. The Isis bombings in Jakarta, we were less then a few blocks from the Starbucks that happened at the day before. The bridge collapse in Calcutta, we boarded a train right down the road from there the night before… I’m not riding my holy horse saying we had anything to do with these things at all lol but it is pretty bizarre that you back home are hearing about these things happening on national tv before we even get to the next city we’re going to. We’re so wrapped up in prayer and drenched in the blood of Christ if anything happens to any of us it’s because it was a part of God’s divine plan and purpose. We aren’t scarred. We aren’t driven by fear. We just want one thing and that’s Jesus. And God he’s given it to us!
Sorry. Calcutta/Kolkata yes, there’s much to be done there. God is the king of that city and it may never see revival. There may be a rise in Christian persecutions. Heck the government could easily make it illegal there who knows. I promise you one thing though, I promise you it saw the healing hand of God on his people. God loves these people. He’s gonna continue to send as many people as he deems fit. Why would he let so many people know his touch if he didn’t? Why would there be long term missionaries willing to lay down their lives for the same people if he just didn’t care? Willing to come in and take our place if they didn’t believe for the same things??
I don’t know man God’s ways are so mysterious. I don’t get it. Why would God even care? What kind of heart does he even have that he would care to see a city of 20 million plus, I’d say less then five percent even know who he is, worshipping millions of different God’s, and all he wants to do is show them love… Still he sees us worthy. My tiny little mind can not comprehend that. The thought that God has for me, let alone the love. My God it doesn’t ever end for all eternity i’ll never understand why he loves us so much. That’s so nuts to even try to fathom. I may sound like I found Jesus yesterday but I’m finding him right here, right now too. He’s with us. His touch is on us. He’s for us way more then we could ever think to be for him. I asked him yesterday if it was possible for me to love him the same way he loves me. He said Nope, you have to love me from the inside looking out. I love you from the outside looking in.
This broke me into tears man! God of all creation, so much delights in me that he would come make his resting place in my heart. Down in the very core, the deepest pit of my heart where all of my junk, my memories from the past, my secrets, my pain, my struggles, my regrets, my selfishness and my pride stay. Yet he still loves me from a heavenly perspective. It’s truly bananas. So yeah I did find Jesus yesterday. I found him today and I hope to find him tomorrow as well. If you feel like you haven’t felt Jesus lately. Pray about how much he loves you. He’s here, he’s there and he’s never going anywhere. He’s in Jakarta. He’s in Calcutta. He’s in Brussel’s. He’s in America.
