Encouragment

We made it safely to Ankara after a six hour bus ride. That was fun! It was a luxury bus so honestly it wasn’t too bad. I did a lot of soul searching on that bus too. When you are crammed on a moving vehicle, there isn’t much you can do but talk to yourself sometimes.  Anyways, God has just been showing up in the last couple of days in almost everything that I encounter. Especially through people and His Word. It has been coming to life recently. God is providing, once again!

The other day I had just flipped open my bible and it fell to 2nd Timothy 4:5. It says that we shouldn’t be afraid to suffer for the Lord. That really hit me. I just pictured Jesus on the cross. It got me thinking that if He did that for me then I should not be afraid to proclaim His name because there isn’t much worse. So, I keep reading that verse and it started to give a different perspective on things.  I saw Jesus’ side of it!

A few verses came from a brother on the South East Asia team. He is very wise and intelligent. 1^st Corinthians 1:28-30, which says that God chose a people that, were the lowest of the low. ME! He chose someone that was in the slumps so that they will become rich in the Kingdom. You! How lucky are we because the way I see it is that we all are like this. Aren’t we?

His second verse came from 1^st Corinthians 2:1-5. It came from a speech Paul gave to the Corinthians. He didn’t come to them to say “lofty words” or give impressive speech’s to tell them about Jesus. He only came to them with the Word of the Holy Spirit. He didn’t trust in human wisdom but in God’s devote wisdom. How great is that? It has been so encouraging to know that people read my blog and that God provides me with exactly what I need at the right moments of my life for Him.