Hello from Cambodia!
This month our ministry looks a little different. We’re doing Unsung Heroes, which means we’re helping AIM find new contacts in Cambodia to send world racers to in the future. It’s been really cool to see how God is working throughout Cambodia, and our team has already found two contacts that racers can start going to! God has been so faithful in bringing people across our path and directing us, it has been a really cool experience just kind of following where He leads.
Not having a set ministry or “job” has been different, so it’s a little hard to pin point exactly what God has been teaching me. We have more down time, so it’s more like life back home in the sense that you have to actively choose to pursue God with your free time. It has been really good for me; I’ve spent more time in personal prayer, as well as just listening to God. I feel myself growing more confident in who I am in Christ, especially in spiritual gifts and hearing God’s voice.
As much as I hate to admit it openly, I’m a skeptic. Some things just don’t come easily to me, and one of them is trusting that it’s actually God’s voice I’m hearing. In fact, sometimes when I do hear it, I write it off as just talking to myself and don’t obey, and God has to tell me again. I know that’s not very clear so I’ll give you an example. The other day during listening prayer over our time in Cambodia I felt God telling me to open my Bible to Mark.” Did I really hear that? That’s kind of specific… what if I’m just making that up?” I refused to open my Bible. I guess I was just scared that if I did I wouldn’t find anything applicable and feel like an idiot. Which, looking back is a silly fear; because God promises us His word will never come back void. Then, I kid you not, I picked up my Bible to move it out of the way and it fell open to Mark, and I read a passage that I knew was for my team and our time here. I felt silly that God had to basically do the work for me because of my lack of faith in His voice, and promised Him I would be open and obedient to hearing His voice in the future, no matter how silly or specific it sounded. Since then God has showed me some really cool things that I might have written off or missed out on if I hadn’t trusted that it was actually Him.
He’s also been teaching me to desire to go deeper in my spiritual gifts. 1 Corinthians 14:1 says “Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially prophesy” and Acts 1:8 says “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you”. We as followers of Christ have immense power in spiritual gifts, not our own power of course, but from the Holy Spirit, and we need to be using it! I’ve been praying for God to continue to strengthen me in power with the gifts I have, as well as give me new ones, and I have definitely felt growth. He has given me opportunities to pray for friends and family back home, and experience the power of my prayers in new ways. God is just so cool guys!
Please continue to pray for our team as we seek new contacts, pray for just the right people to come into our path so we can form new relationships. God is doing big things in Cambodia!
