SPREDING THE WORD-DOOR TO DOOR.
Hello from Kachibora, Kenya! You all…you’re missed. I love you and think about you everyday. The reality of ‘The World Race’ is really starting to sink in here. I’ve been away from home for about five months now…and I’m not coming home for about six more months. This, this weird, weird life—void of all routine and normalcy—is becoming life to me. My life on the World Race is becoming normal to me.
We’ve been in Kenya for about two weeks now. It’s beautiful here. Not only the landscape and the scenery, but the culture, the people, the spiritual climate. It’s beautiful. God is doing a mighty work. Not just among the locals, but within each of the lovely ladies I get to spend life with.
We have a lot of down time here. But, at the same time, I feel like we’re kept very busy.
During the day, just about everyday, we break up into teams of three and we go out into the community telling people about Jesus. That’s our primary ministry here. And, oh boy, it’s been intense.
At home, I’ve been part of many ‘treasure hunts’, where a group of people spend some time asking the Lord where He wants us to go and who He wants us to minister to. The Lord is always good and faithful and gives us ‘clues’ and then, we go out.
This is…’same same’…but different. Instead of looking for specific people or going to specific places, we just go into the community and we stop and talk with everyone that we meet. And we don’t really do the small talk that we Americans enjoy so much—no, we pretty much just dive into the gospel story.
It’s been pretty incredible though. I was blessed to have learned how to tell the story of Jesus, starting with creation…(thanks Josh Ballard!) which has come in handy more than I ever thought it would.
We, as a team, definitely struggled with this at first though. We are so conditioned in America to focus on building a relationship, that we really don’t tell the ‘good news’ all that often. I definitely had a bad attitude about our door-to-door ministry at first…but then my Lord, so good that He is, asked me why I was limiting Him.
He reminded me that there is power in the gospel, there is salvation power in that story and if I let Him, He can do whatever He wants. And we have seen it. Right before our eyes we have seen lives changed and hearts softened.
Not only that, we have seen people healed. When sharing the story of Jesus, His death and His resurrection—and the price He paid for our sins and sicknesses, we have been compelled to pray for people…and we have seen them healed!
Each one is a story in and of itself, but we have seen a baby who was getting ready to be taken to the hospital be healed before our very eyes, an arm with a broken rotator cuff healed, and a deaf ear opened up. There were also a couple of other people who I believe in my hearts were healed, but it was more of an internal healing that was taking place, so we don’t have the physical proof.
But it has been incredible! What’s interesting to me, is that it’s always us who are shocked. We are the ones freaking out about the healing more than the ones getting healed. And that has really made me question my faith.
I have always said that I believe the Lord can do whatever He wants, but, I guess I have never expected Him to really do it. God has been challenging me to not only pray with faith, but to also pray with expectancy. It’s one thing to believe that He can do it, but an entirely different thing to expect Him to do it.
God is breaking out of the boxes that we’ve put Him in…and He’s showing me that though I may have given Him a big box to live in…it was a box nonetheless.
Praise God that those days are coming to an end.
I love you Papa! You are so good to me. You are so faithful. Teach me to be faithful like you are faithful. Teach me to have faith and help me in my unbelief. I love what you are doing in and around me Lord and I give you permission to just keep it up. Continue exploding out of the boxes I keep trying to keep you in. Keep pointing out the lies and fallacies I have believed. You’re so good God! So good!
Amen.
