In Cambodia, it was pr-phesied over me
that I would be going through the desert and at the end of the desert, I would
reach a kingdom. So far, the “desert” has been an amazing place. This was not
at all what I was anticipating. To be honest, I was expecting the worst. I was
full of fear, even though I shouldn’t have been. Why, because G-d always
protects His children. He is mighty to save and He promised that no harm would
befall the righteous. So what exactly was I afraid of?
V-etnam has
been quite an amazing place. I love the way the people here embrace you like
you were their long lost relative. They truly treat us as brothers and sisters
in Chr-st. Their generosity is beyond anything I have ever experienced in the
states.
My new
sister Hun, she is V-etnamese but currently lives in Australia, has quit her
job to come and take care of her aun,t who is battling throat cancer. We had
two days off between m-nistries, and she was so touched by the m-ssion we are
doing, that she invited us to go to the beach, all-expenses paid. We
traveled 8 hours by bus to a famous beach town called Nha Trang.
While I was
in Florida,
before the race, I had gone to a V-etnamese restaurant with my sister. While we
were eating, there was a huge, beautiful painting next to our table. It really
caught my attention. The painting was of mountains surrounding a turquoise blue
ocean, V-etnamese people were in canoes floating on the water. On the bus trip
to Nha Trang, I woke up at 6 a.m. and looked out the window. I saw the exact painting
I had seen in Florida
right before my eyes.
While at
the beach, we got to ride a banana boat, took a boat to a remote island, took a
glass bottom ride to see the coral reef in the ocean, swam in the middle of the
bluest ocean, and went down a water slide in the middle of the sea. We were
completely pampered and blessed by the Most High God.
Why would a
complete stranger go through all the trouble of blessing us so much? She is the
daughter of a p-stor. Her father pre-ched in the city but was forced by the g-vernment
to move to the countryside to p-stor a church. During that time, he did not
receive a salary, but had to support his family solely by the food that was
given to him by the villagers. Sometimes there was no food. They lived in this
village for 7 years, and his daughter begged and pleaded to leave and find a
better life. However, her father decided to be obedient to the L-rd and he said
he would stay as long as G-d needed him to. They suffered a lot, and the
g-vernment would tell them, deny your G-d and we will pay you lots of money,
give you a good job, and food. They refused and persevered. After many years,
G-d opened the door for the family to go to A-stralia and p-stor a church there.
provision, and Hun says the reason why G-d allowed them to go through that
suffering, was so they could experience the suffering of the mountain people
first-hand. So they could always have them on their heart and remember their
need. Anytime she encounters people who are doing all they can to share the g-spel,
she will do whatever she can to bless them, and at any cost. This angel is
racking up tremendous blessings in he-ven. I hope to be as generous as she is and
bless my brothers and sisters in Chr-st the way she does. I pray that G-d would
continue to bl-ss her ten-fold and make her invisible to her enemies in J-sus
name.
