Wednesday

During “listening prayer” this morning we went back to the cathedral with the really old graveyard. I sat under the prettiest tree while praying. The symbolism today was almost overly obvious. I am sitting there praying for a spiritually dead city in a cemetery. I put some music on and began to pray the words I was hearing.

The first song was “O the Deep Deep Love of Jesus”. I prayed that the people would see and feel the “currents of His love.” That they would know  that He is interceding for them and watching over them from His throne.

From “The Word of God Has Spoken” I thanked God that the same Word that created the world is the one who is drawing these people to Himself still. I prayed that they would “run to salvation and be delivered so their lives can be changed forever.”

From “Jesus Saves”, that they would see that He died for their burdens-even the heavy ones they continually carry. And of course the lyrics “freedom’s calling, chains are falling, hope is dawning bright and true, day is breaking, night is breaking, God is making all things new.”

I was then prompted to play for some of the kids we have met and gotten to know. First Daniel: he is such a sweetheart! He’s 16  and is the sweetest thing ever. Please pray with me that he would continue to soak up the love of Christ he has been feeling and continue to depend on Christ as most of the team leaves in a few weeks. I know he has been so encouraged by them and I pray he will continue to follow God after they leave. For Kim: she is also 17 and has just finished school. She thought God had been telling her one thing to do after school, but has felt recently that He was leading her in a different direction. Her parents are not happy about her being a Christ follower so please pray with me that she will continue to depend on God. That she will still be respectful of her parents so that they will see Christ in her. And again that when the team leaves she will remain strong without the extra encouragement.

This evening we went to what is called “Good News Club”. It’s a kids club run by a local Pentacostal church. It was super fun! They definitely handle kids differently around here, but the Gospel was presented in a wonderful way. At the end they asked if kids needed prayer for anything. One little boy asked for prayer for his family “because they didn’t have a lot of food or money.” It was heart-wrenching to hear. From what Kim told us later, no kid has ever asked for something like that before. The lesson had been on depending on God for what you needed.

The interesting part of this day was that it took us an hour to get to the church. Our leader for the day had never actually walked that way and we got a little lost. Actually, it was more than a little…more like it took us over an hour to get there and it should have only taken 15-20 minutes. My feet and legs were so unbelievably sore.

Came home, had “bangers and mash” and then wanted to take a shower because I felt so gross. Halfway through the shower-conditioner in my hair and shaving cream all over my legs the water completely shut off on me. Totally. 100% gone. I really didn’t know what I was going to do. After a few minutes I got some ice cold water and tried to get as much conditioner out of my hair as possible. Come to find out, our wonderful pastor had decided to take a bath and took ALL the water!!! I may have to take another shower later because I technically wasn’t able to “wash”.

Right now I’m sitting in a room full of people. I’ve been listening to Daniel talk with an American accent, Jake is playing piano, people are playing card games and I’m sitting here typing. It really is so relaxing. I love the atmosphere.

You can pray for us tomorrow. We are going to Penygroes and Talysarn. Apparently there are going to be some amazing views. I can’t wait, but it’s going to be the most walking we’ve done yet. Not sure how my legs are going to handle it. You can pray for safety for all of us because it’s going to be hiking and stuff.

This week I have been so “aware” of how old I am. I haven’t actually felt old until today, but it’s just funny to be with a bunch of teenagers and early 20 year olds.  It’s made me kind of “take stock” if you will. Realizing how much less time I have than I had before.

That’s about it for today…devotion times have been great. I think I’m gonna make a whole post about that later and put all the highlights together.

Nos Da!!