My team and I are currently in Manila, the capital for a week to celebrate Christmas and to recharge for the rest of our time in the Philippines. Being here, we have wifi that we would not normally have, so I was able to watch church for the first time since I was living in Albania.
This morning when I woke up, I had an overwhelming excitement to watch church later tonight (since I’m 13 hours ahead). I was up with one of my team mates eating icecream and playing games before church started so I was wide awake, but as soon as church started, I instantly became extremely tired and thought about just going to sleep. I decided to stay up anyway, though, and I just wanted to watch the 9:30 service because it would have been more convenient for me, but Jacob told me I needed to watch it at 11 because he had heard big things were going to happen.
As I was sitting in my bed at 12:57 pm on Sunday night, I watched in shock as Pamela Allison step into the baptistery. I had to do a double take, and instantly my eyes filled with tears. I was so proud, excited, and blown away that she was there. Little did I know that God had put that desire in my heart to watch the service tonight even though it would be late because He knew what He had planned with Pamela, someone who has been a mentor and great friend to me for a while now. I realized that I had become so tired because Satan didn’t want me to see that or experience God’s perfect timing.
God cares so much about the details that Jacob just happened to be in the AV room, so he ran out to give her a hug and I was able to FaceTime her and express how excited and proud I was, and we were able to celebrate together even though we are extremely far apart. Through this. God changed Pamela’s life forever, taught me how much He truly cares about the desires of our hearts before we even know what we desire, and showed me how perfect His timing is. This was no random chance that the one day I had wifi to watch church that I was able to watch Pamela give her life completely over to God and publicly make that profession. God knew what He was doing, and I’m so blessed to have been able to experience it.
On top of all of that, the very next morning I got to watch the college ministry service and my brother made the best decision of his life. I was able to experience his life change and was truly, truly amazed by how God perfectly works in His own time and by the fact that I can be a small part of what God is doing and how He is moving. There is true life change happening, and I’m so excited to be able to see parts of it, and to come back and see how God has truly moved through Hebron and through the people there. God has blown me away, and He’s so cool that He perfectly put everything together, and it’s so cool to watch Him work.
