4/12/18
This morning I prayed that the Lord would interrupt me. I prayed that the Holy Spirit would guide my heart in the areas I needed to pay more attention.
Today, God shattered my expectations and completely invaded my space and my comfortability.
I had an option tonight. I could go home and cook dinner for my team or I could go to a small group at church where I wouldn’t know a word spoken.
Unfortunately, I really wanted to go home tonight. I didn’t want to do more ministry.
Long story short, I went to the small group with my teammate, Alyssa. As we prepared for the small group, Alyssa looked over at me and said ‘the Lord placed on my heart that you and I are going to bring crazy amounts of joy tonight.’
Well, that was a cool thought but I didn’t see how we could do that when no one in the room spoke clear English and nothing could be translated.
So, during that small group I sat for 45 minutes and listened to a missionary speak a foreign language about a Bible story I knew but couldn’t understand where he was taking it and Alyssa and I sang a few worship songs in English.
Nothing too special.
After the study, Alyssa and I stepped out of the church and immediately began worshipping on the street. Though we didn’t draw a crowd, we definitely drew attention. A man introduced himself and invited us into learning more about his Palestinian culture while we are here in Romania. How cool that we had the opportunity to meet him!
After our little jam session on the street, our host was preparing to leave church and in that moment, Alyssa and I made a conscious decision to be interruptible. So, we asked if we could stay in town for awhile. We wanted more of these interactions. We sought them out.
The three of us walked to the park with the intention to worship, and that’s what we did. Amidst our worshipping, we met a woman who followed us all over town and invited us into spending our time with her this month exploring the city. We met a woman who asked for a private concert and we gave her one!
We saw a man on the street with a guitar and we asked him to play and invited him into our ministry.
Today, we spent an hour of unplanned time seeking out what the Lord could use our talents for and our cups overflowed with blessings and fruit. We built relationships and invited people into our joy and the Lord blew our expectations out of the water.
Today, I asked the Lord to interrupt me.
Today, the Lord interrupted me.
