Let's Pray!!!

http://www.30-days.net

Remember that millions of Muslims around the world will be gathering for prayer today. They will also be thinking about the fasting period starting for them during Ramadan. While some Muslims are obviously very committed and dedicated to this time, others find it a burden and struggle.

Please take some time to commit the next month of prayer to the Lord. The "30 Days" of intercession starts in a few days. Hundreds of thousands of Christians around the planet will be praying with us for Muslim people. Spiritual forces of darkness are very active in opposing prayer, evangelism, Bible translation efforts medical care, social work against injustice, etc.

We will probably find some spiritual opposition in our own lives in the coming weeks as we pray. Let us prepare ourselves for the struggle. Meditate on these texts: Ephesians 6:10-20, James 4:7, 1 Peter 5:8-9, 2 Kings 6:16-17

Choosing to see...

So this past weekend was awesome!!! No, I didn't do a 24 all-nighter, and no, I didn't go on a hot date with Wentworth Miller :-)...

On Saturday, Natalie and I went to an area called Msunduza. It's pretty much the ghetto of Mbababe! :-) HPC was out there doing Servolution the other weekend so we decided to go back and visit some of the amazing people we met. We visited the home of our friends Solomon and Precious, then Precious took us to gogo's (a really old, really precious lady) house where we just chilled for a while. Then it got really exciting!!...We brought out the paraffin stove, fried some chicken and Precious and Natalie cooked some pap. We had about 20 children outside gogo's little house just chilling with us (they danced for us and we gave them sweets :-) ) So, anyway, when the pap and chicken was ready, we couldn't just tell the kids to leave so we had them get into little groups and gave each group a plate of food. It wasn't much, but they loved it, and I think we loved it more!...

I live in Swaziland,in Africa, have lived here all my life pretty much. I have relatives who live in places like Msunduza. This was not something new to me, or maybe I should say this wasn't something foreign to me. It seemed so different, though...

gogo's little house, the paraffin stove with the pot of chicken over it, the children hanging out by the door, gogo's precious little face...it's like I saw it, I really saw it kinda the way Jesus sees it, and I loved it, really loved it all. I can't wait to go back and cook chicken on the paraffin stove, dance with the kids, chat with Precious, rub gogo's back...

There's so much around us, so much life, so much life to be a part of, to take in, this weekend I chose to see it, take it in, and it was amazing!!!!...

I'll get pcis from Natalie and post soon :-) ...oh and I made a new friend, Tracy, she's about 5, I think and she's so so cute!! :-)

A month later :-)

Just read an awesome story on Natalie's blog...

Had some an amazing past month- yes it's been a month since I last blogged!!! it's been amazing and crazy busy! :-)... some stuff I've been thinking bout...

Miracles…deep inside, we all long for them, and yet at the same time we are afraid that they will not happen and so we keep our desire from the hidden away in the safety of our hearts and minds. We reason that if no one else knows what we hope for it is somehow less heartbreaking when it does not come to pass…

as children we dreamed of impossible things; we removed all limits from our imaginations; we hoped. We dreamed, we believed. Then we grew up and our dreams did no come true, our hopes were shattered, our belief betrayed. So we did what any normal person would do- we put up the walls, got ourselves some protection, prepared for failure. The problem with that is well, its wrong!

We had it right when we were children. The kingdom of God (a kingdom of power, miracles, dreams that are fulfilled beyond our wildest imagination) is revealed to little children. The thing is miracles; supernatural acts of God still happen, o they do! Everything He ever said about Himself (Faithful, Almighty, Loving, Kind) is all still true; every promise He ever made still stands. Miracles…deep inside we know that’s what we were made for; deep inside we know that because our Father, Lover, and Friend is God; the Creator of the universe, our lives should and can be nothing less that extraordinary, supernatural, miraculous! “Give us back our childlike faith!”