Wow, our blog is over 3,000 views! Amazed at what God is doing and how he is using our testimony to show other Jesus. God is good.
I thought tonight I would write in a different setting. I am outside with Jenn and Bridger sitting in our driveway looking at stares. God is so amazing, he created beauty for no other purpose than for us to enjoy it I'm pretty sure.
Tonight will be a little short. I am pretty tired and sore.
The past few days have been interesting and pretty amazing. Growth comes through struggle Amen? We have had objection, excitement, blessings, confusion, tears (not for us but for those who don't understand), fun, pain (literally, I fell off a rock into a river today. I'm pretty sore.) and all kinds of warfare.
The chance to grow started this past Saturday when we woke up to an inch of water on our floor throughout the entire house!!!! Everything was wet. It took over and hour to get the water out of the house. The water company came that morning so hopefully it is now fixed. It was a mess. Nothing like our friends in Africa who had to wade through waist deep water. We are blessed, it could have been so much worse.
The on our way to church Sunday our tire blows up. So here we are on our way to a new church and our tire blows!. Whoever put the tire on last must have overtightened the lug nuts because in order to get them off I had to pray for God to help me. He gave me a wonderful Idea of using my feet as hands so I could use my leg muscles. It worked! Thank you Jesus!. We got the tire replaced and back on the road in time to make it to church on time! We walked in the doors of The Center ChurchPR and knew it was our church. It felt so right and so welcoming and the Holy Spirit was so present during worship it was almost overwhelming for me.
The warfare has been heavy, from objection from local pastors about our partnership with IHOP, to fear of loosing a friend because of it, great brothers no longer allowed to do ministry with us (right now. God will change that), our house flood, blown tire, and other things that I need not go into. But we know that our God is bigger and we wear the full armor of God and because God is for us than no man can stand against us. The war is already won so why does the devil try so hard, just give in already!
Our bible study/small group/just hang out and talk about Jesus gathering at our home is going great! We had a great discussion on 2 Corinthians 3:7-18. I love it when three families from different backgrounds, different churches and even different religions can all sit around and talk about Jesus and how we can move the church forward and expand Gods kingdom all through the love of Jesus! It is so EPIC!
Prayer Requests
Pastor Leo as he is out of the country in Ecuador visiting some of his churches there.
Pastor Wilson and Pastor Carlos as they seek Gods understanding and guidance on things.
Armando and Jeanette as they face some things. Pray for their strength to never back down from Gods calling on their life.
Unity within the body of Christ here in Puerto Rico.
Understanding.
Our Tuesday nights keep growing according to the Lords will.
Prayer against warfare
Wisdom on what to do about/with finances
Pray for new friends for the kids.
School for the kids continues to go well.
Wisdom in how to be more like Jesus.
That our water no longer backs up.
For our brothers and sisters here who are paralyzed by religion. Pray for the breaking of chains, mainly religion. Pray for relationships with Jesus to be born.
Pray for new baptisms of the Holy Spirit.
Pray down the Holy Spirit so we can walk in the calling God has laid before us.
Pray for our focus not to be on when we are going home or how long we will be here but on what we can do for Jesus while he has us here.
Pray that we listen to Gods words "Lean not on your own understanding."
Prayer for clarity, peace, rest, joy, love, wisdom, knowledge, discernment and anything else you may think of.
I thank God for all of you for reading this blog, it keeps me motivated to be more like Jesus every day. I encourage all of you to seek a relationship with Jesus. Don't focus in the do and do nots but focus on the Love Jesus is and offers and asks us to live out, then the do and do nots will be taken care of by default! It's amazing! Your life will never be the same again! Seek out love and you will become love.
Thank you so much for you prayers. Good night.
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