I love how God whispers into our ears what he wants and gives us a choice. We can either obey right away OR we could ignore him. But here is the catch….even as we run the opposite direction, He chases after us like a father chasing his child. And when He catches us, He takes us back to the spot we started and whispers to us again what He wants. Well, being in the Philippines has been like that for me. God whispered in my ear what he wanted me to do and I was like…Nope…not interested. I was comfortable with what I knew. When he asked me to put together puppet performances I was fine. When He asked me to read two chapters from a book to kids everyday, I was great. When he asked me to build relationships with the short term teams that worked with KIM ministries, I said No Thanks. I hate to admit it but it is so hard for me to invest with a lot of people for a month with the knowledge that I will be leaving soon. I know it is my "job" to minister, love, and invest but I felt like God had already given me to much to do. I was investing in the street kids at night, I was investing in the 40 some kids who came each day to hear me read to them, and now he wanted me to invest in a bunch of high schoolers from Australia. God placed them on my heart to start praying for them about a week before their arrival. When they finally arrived they began to go to the feedings that took place twice a day. I just happened to tag along with them and thats when crazy stuff started to happen. Normally at feedings I would pray over the people that would come to get food but I started to pray for the Australians and wild things happened. God just started giving me prophetic words and pictures for these kids. He gave me words of truth and life to speak into them. Watching and working with the Australians for two weeks…all I can say is WOW!!! I watched God move and soften hearts. Not just theirs but mine as well. I watched teenage girls come to realize their worth comes from God. I watched young men step up and become warriors for God. I watched God work in their hearts and show them their identity in Him. And I would have missed ALL of that if I hadn't been willing to choose to follow Gods whisper.
-Rebecca
