I am here today to tell you that I will be away on missions work for 3 weeks, starting on Monday! A team of 9, made up of myself and 8 others (basic math skills), are heading 5 hours south to stay in Cairns (and Mossman- a nearby, smaller city) for three weeks. Our accommodations will be purely generosity based; we will be staying both on the floors of churches and at one particular charity based home for the homeless. We were originally going to be living in tents at a trailer park for half the time, but a church (who has never interacted with YWAM before- which makes us a "pioneering team" as we are experimenting and cultivating a new relationship!) came forward and asked if we would stay in their building.
When asked if there would be opportunities for us to contact home during these three weeks, our leaders informed us that, hopefully, we'd get at least one time per week where we had wifi. I will hold myself, obviously, to updating all of you as frequently as possible. Thank you again for your prayers.
In other news- the Lord is speaking. The past two weeks have been a whirlwind of life-changing happenings. The reality of God speaking in a way that is comprehensible to me in addition to His keeping His promises has come to absolute fruition in the past ten days. Absolutely wonderful. I have come to the conclusion that God loves to be wrestled with- I fought Him for three hours straight over something that appeared two weeks ago and let me just tell you: in all my classical training and the college courses I've done and the theological classes I've taken, I have never been taught so much than in those three hours and the days immediately after. I was DEMANDING that He tell me what was going on or, at the very least, tell me how to fix it. I couldn't understand the logic behind Christ putting something in my life to distract me from Him. What I've learned in bullet points:
A) The Lord doesn't particularly cater to worldly logic.
B) I cannot force the Lord into telling me anything.
C) The Lord truly does have a plan for me that I cannot alter in my foolishness.
During this whirlwind, the Lord has spoken audibly, visually, through prophecy, through the mouths of people, and through my own mind. Yesterday, at the very end of lectures, I was somewhat divinely showed the verse 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. Then, as I was meditating on the passage, my eyes drifted up to verse 8, which says exactly (in the NIV, anyway) "three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me BUT HE SAID 'My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness." That was me two weeks ago. I wasn't just pleading though, I was both BEGGING and DEMANDING with all the strength I could muster. Just as an encouragement to all those out there who aren't sure if the Lord does or will ever speak to you in a way you can clearly comprehend: He will take you hand in hand, step by step, through whatever you honestly desire Him to.
Random fact of the post:
Whilst camping, I was awestruck at the abundance of small beauties the Lord has put on this earth. There were sensory activated plants all over- plants that, when your finger tips brushed them, folded up like a Chinese fan. There were dragon flies that were, every inch of their bodies, purely neon colored; not just neon green striped though- I mean brilliant colors like neon red and neon blue. Their entire bodies were these shades of bright, saturated color- when they flew by, your eyes had no choice but to follow them. There were flowers that had, in every one "flower head", 6 smaller flowers- 5 of them a beautiful periwinkle color and one in the middle of those five that was bright orange. Inside each of those 6 would be about 10 more tiny, whitish-blue flowers. We could see the entire Milky Way Galaxy on a clear night. There was a plethora of shooting stars nightly. Even the spiders and the lizards were brilliant colors and shapes and sizes. To top off my excitement about nature, just tonight, as I was walking along a bridge alone in the dark, a possum showed up. Not an opossum- those are the ones in the states. A possum is different, though looks quite similar (they are a bit different in size, I think?). At any rate, I was able to pet it for a short while before it returned to its home in the tree tops. It's tail wrapped around my wrist. Those things are quite strong.
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