Let me just start off and say God is extremely present in Selaphum. I see it daily in mom and pa, the leper colony kids, and my team-mates. I want to see so much more of God in everything though, I feel like I am missing out on so much that He has been showing us.
Today we had church service, because are team is going to an elephant sanctuary with mom on Sunday. We got to worship in a room with people singing in Thai, Japanese, and English. It was such a glorifying experience for our team. God is so much bigger than we think, I want to experience that part of what being a faithful child really means.
We have had a lot of downtime recently and its been a struggle for me. I feel like I am not here to just sit around and pick lice out of my hair ( this is a true story) anyways, I just want to be used for more. more than the average missionary.
I want to be more and more present, I want to see God more in the everyday of our lives.
God has out it on my heart, along with some other team mates to start reading the bible from cover to cover. Boy am I learning a lot. God has shown me that the Bible is so much more than the inspirational verses. There is so much history and information I had never known. I’m in Genesis right now, and I am just so overwhelmed with the things I have already read. I can’t imagine what its going to be like in a few weeks.
We worshipped for team-time tonight and all sang out to Holy Spirit by Kari Jobe. The bridge of the song really relates to me on how I’ve been feeling lately.
“Let us become more aware of your presence, let us experience the glory of your goodness”
I want more of God, I want more of His presence in my life and especially on this race. I don’t want to go a day without praising Him for all his creations. I want the Lord to spark up creativity in me to always be sharing His kingdom in some sort of way.
Our team has been struggling with sinus infections and sickness since we have arrived in Selaphum, prayers of strength and motivation are greatly appreciated. I keep telling my team mates not to commit to the sickness and only to commit to the Lord’s strength. In Him we find strength. I feel like I am just annoying them each time I say it. Sorry teammies. DONT GIVE THE SICKNESS THE POWER IT WANTS.
Lord, I want to be faithful and I want to see more and more of you here. Father, show up and invade the spaces we don’t see you and make yourself known to us. We need you and we need your joyful presence to overwhelm us. You are so so good.
xoxo,
Vicky
p.s. our whole team has lice and we would appreciate prayers for the little buggies to go away. thank you.
