As the story continues, what do you do when everything goes different than planned. I am sure if most of us our honest, we would say that we get a little worried, a little anxious, or a little nervous. God has been really working on my heart about How Great is my God? It has been a heart issue for me since when things go wrong I like to take over control and make it work with all of my experience, knowledge, or will power. I have been learning to let go and trust God over the pat couple of months. When I believe that my God is Great, then I don't have to be in control. God has been testing me very hard this week in just this. Chris, how Great am I? I can honestly say that since Friday to earlier today, Monday, not one thing that we have planned has gone how we have planned. I believe that we are truly under spiritual attack and warfare. I can't explain how many interruptions we have had over the past few days, but it is more than enough. We have had interruptions from the workers of the school, to belly dancers camp, to schedule delays, to food not being ready when said, to drunk guys making problems till 2:30 in the morning, to some sickness for team members, and also we are getting the most spiritual push back from students than we have had before. We have some girls that are just so hard to any idea of spiritual things. Even as we are talking this week about the story of God, we know the push back is not personally against us, but we know it is against the one that we believe in.
It has been great to have an awesome intern team with me and also my wife, Liina, helping stand next to me. We are a family that relys on each other a lot. We look to each other for encouragement. They are the ones that are always asking me, ok chris, how great is God right now? Even in my frustration, I have to take a moment, repent of my sin, my dis-belief that God truly is faithful and in control. I am thankful for the story that we are telling this week. Even though I have had the opportunity to be a Christian for a long time, I still need redemption everyday as a sinful man. I am thankful already in the past few days for God's grace and mercy which he has poured on us and our team. Our team is together in prayer, praying that God would soften the hearts of these students, so that the group be ok so we could plants some seeds. If any fruit is born this week, we know that it was all God's work. It won't be anything that we have done because we know nothing we have planned has actually taken place correctly yet. So to God be the glory! Amen.