This week in South Africa has been a real challenge in many ways. My team was assigned to be on the evangelism team. That means for six hours a day we go out to the squatter camps and talk to people about Jesus and try to introduce people to Him. We go door to door and talk to all sorta of people. On the first day we had the privilege of sharing about Jesus to some people who have never heard about Him before. Isn’t that so crazy to think about? There are people living their lives that don’t know about Jesus, the man that has forever changed my life and yours too. Some people don’t even know there is a God or even about the creation story or anything. Imagine how much of this world we can change if we just keep introducing people to our Lord and savior.
There is so much to be done in this world. If there is still people on this planet that don’t even know about God, let alone Jesus, then there is a lot to be done. We really have to step up and put it into gear. Ezekiel 3:18, this passage is the Father speaking to Ezekiel. Father says here that if there is someone doing wickedness and you don’t warn him of his wickedness so that he could have the chance to change, but if you withhold that information from someone then when that man dies, God is holding us accountable for his blood. Thats a fricken heavy passage guys, at least how I’m portraying it right now. The Lord has used that verse to say to me to get off my butt and go out and actually tell people whats going on because if I know that there are people that don’t even know that they are headed the wrong way or that there even is a way, then its my job to go and at least let them know about it. I know that not everyone is called to get out there and tell people the good news of the Gospel but everyone has a roll to play in the process. For example, the people all of us missionaries have talked to wouldn’t know about Jesus if we weren’t out here but we wouldn’t be out here if it went for all of you guys funding us. Also, prayer is counted in that, not everyone is able to give to missionaries but I know that everyone is able to pray. Everyone is able to pray for us and for the people that we will be in contact with that day, and we need that prayer every day.
A verse that has been totally changing how I pray and how I am going about life even is Mark 11:24. “Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” There are two words that rack my brain in that passage and those words are “have received”. That is so cray to think about in my mind because in my mind I wouldn’t have to pray for it if I have it already haha but I’m totally thinking in the wrong way. Imagine that the Father has already given us everything we need in this life its just in a different realm. Just like we can’t pass from the physical to the spiritual without Jesus when we die, we can’t get what we need from the spiritual to the physical with out Him either. So we already HAVE what we need but we just need help being able to use it. Thats when Jesus comes and equips us with that, but only if we really need it and if we fully believe that we have it. There isn’t any 50/50 or even 95/5 situations here. We need to be 100% sure on the situation and it will be ours. Thats just something that I have been working towards and trying to achieve the 100%, because its really hard most of the time to be 100% on anything.
Any way haha back to my week(sorry for rambling and preaching to ya, as if my dad doesn’t do that enough for ya haha;) my week has been really awesome and crazy. I have been out having door to door interactions with people many days and hours of the week. One day there was a very drunk guy that could hardly walk and he really wanted to talk to the girls in my group so I decided to take him aside and pray for him and bless him in what ways I could. There are many people really struggling in the world and it is hard to see someone whole is totally and utterly drunk at 10AM. Then the next day people were asking us questions like,”Why does God let bad things happen to good people if He loves us?” and “How could a pastor down south do a miracle so great one day and then not be able to do anything the next day?” Those are hard questions to answer, especially being a 19 year old guy that isn’t even from this country or speaking the same language to much. Thats why we need more prayer than ever right now for wisdom and insight. There are a lot of people that don’t even know what a Bible is out here.
The Lord has been working in my heart in huge ways lately. I have realized that I want to die to everything that I used to be and who I used to be and everything and I want Him to come inside of me and live through me in every single way. I want everything that I do to be for Him. I want everything I say to speak love to others and build them up when they need it and break them down when they need it too. Everything I say I want it to be with love. I want every day and every second to be for Him. I wake up and dive into the word and then I talk and discuss it all day with everyone here and then before bed I dive into it again. There has been so much change in my heart and my actions and Im no longer recognizable. There is still so so so much more to be done in me and the Lord knows it too! I bomb Him continuously with prayer for Him to change me as much as he changed Saul into Paul. My love for the Lord is comparable to anything else. I can’t use words to describe with words how much I agape my Lord and savior.
I also can’t use words to say how grateful I am of all of you back home who are praying for me and supporting me. Thank you for being in the progress that made me into the man I am today and the man who I will become tomorrow and everyday from here on. I hope that I have touched your hearts for what touches His. I hope I have brought some new things to the table for you guys too. Thank you for asking commenting on my blogs too! Make sure to ask me any questions for anything and I will reply to them all! I appreciate you all so much.
I know my blogs have been all over the place lately because thats where my brain has been haha. There has been so much going on in the spiritual realm and in my heart that it is hard for me to talk about anything but what I have been learning! Its hard to talk about my week and not what my brain has been working on and what my heart breaks on. I hope that you all understand at least a little of what I have said.
We are truly making a difference and are truly soldiers in the Lords army here and I am absolutely loving it and soaking it in so I can use what I have learned in all the corners of the world.
