2Timothy 4:2
" Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching".
I was going about my day, running around and doing all sorts of different things when as I was walking by a pregnant woman sitting down and a translator right beside her. I paused to see if everything was ok, the woman needed some vitamins and was being given some. She was from the Ravine area and was several months pregnant. She was given vitamins and as she was getting ready to go the translator said, "wait, there's one more thing she wants to say." I couldn't help but remain where I was looking upon this situation. The translator said, "She says that the man she is with does not want her to keep this baby. She says he wants her to get rid of it."
Right then Jeremiah 1:5 came into my mind, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."
Before I knew it, words had started flowing out of my mouth. I said to the translator, you tell her that God loves the baby inside of her and that He has a special plan for her baby. Tell her God is going to do something important with the baby in her belly, that she can trust Him to take care of the baby!
Her eyes and mouth started to smile. She stood up and gave us all a hug and kiss and said thank you. Sometimes, it just letting someone know how much the Lord loves them.
I never felt ready as I approached this woman, but its in those times that the Lord meets you and forces the words from your mouth that He has already hidden in your heart !
God is good!
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
84
Sometimes you think the Lord has broken your heart enough for the people that He has called you to love. Sometimes you walk into something that you weren't prepared for and the Holy Spirit stops you to say, "I am the Lord your God, there is more love than you could ever imagine in Me for these people".
I was going down to the Ravine with the baby feeders and each month the children are weighed to make sure they are gaining weight and are healthy. Some of the babies to not like to sit on the scale, some of them are way to small to put on the scale. So the method that we use it having the mother and baby on the scale together and then she passes her baby to a friend and just she weighed. Its a method of subtracting to that we can make weighing the babies less hectic.
The mother with a very young baby stepped on the scale. She was about 5'8, and looked thin but not at a scary weight. She looked like most of the women in the Ravine. She passed her baby to a friend, and stepped back on the scale. It read 84 pounds. I was thinking about which baby would be next when God showed me the number on the scale. I swallowed hard. I looked again. She was tall, she didn't look sickly thin.
It was in that moment you realize again that the Lord is never done moving your heart for His people. In a country where the death rate is around 56 years old, I realized how much more the Lord loves these people than I ever could.
As my heart moved in my chest I held back tears; there was nothing I could do that was within my power for this woman. She is like all the other mothers in the Ravine. But I looked at her young baby that is in the CLS feeding program and I knew that for her, giving her son food and an education would be something. Giving her son the chance to find Jesus would be the greatest thing in all the world. The Ravine church that was started right by where she lives, because one of our staff felt led to have a Ravine church where all can come no matter what clothes they have.
Just when you think you can understand the love Jesus has for you and the world he removes you from it, and opens your eyes just a little wider.
I was going down to the Ravine with the baby feeders and each month the children are weighed to make sure they are gaining weight and are healthy. Some of the babies to not like to sit on the scale, some of them are way to small to put on the scale. So the method that we use it having the mother and baby on the scale together and then she passes her baby to a friend and just she weighed. Its a method of subtracting to that we can make weighing the babies less hectic.
The mother with a very young baby stepped on the scale. She was about 5'8, and looked thin but not at a scary weight. She looked like most of the women in the Ravine. She passed her baby to a friend, and stepped back on the scale. It read 84 pounds. I was thinking about which baby would be next when God showed me the number on the scale. I swallowed hard. I looked again. She was tall, she didn't look sickly thin.
It was in that moment you realize again that the Lord is never done moving your heart for His people. In a country where the death rate is around 56 years old, I realized how much more the Lord loves these people than I ever could.
As my heart moved in my chest I held back tears; there was nothing I could do that was within my power for this woman. She is like all the other mothers in the Ravine. But I looked at her young baby that is in the CLS feeding program and I knew that for her, giving her son food and an education would be something. Giving her son the chance to find Jesus would be the greatest thing in all the world. The Ravine church that was started right by where she lives, because one of our staff felt led to have a Ravine church where all can come no matter what clothes they have.
Just when you think you can understand the love Jesus has for you and the world he removes you from it, and opens your eyes just a little wider.
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