Author: Adventures

Last night my team felt like the Lord wanted us to just intercede. So instead of going into the bars on Bangla, we sat in a Starbucks on Bangla and prayed. After a while, I got my ipod and my journal and went and sat at one of the tables outside. I turned up worship music really loud on my ipod and began to just pray for all the people that were walking by. Bangla Road looked like a totally different place when instead of hearing blaring club music, I heard worship music. I was overwhelmed with the realization that all of the people passing me were God's children. I was surrounded by...

Last Wednesday it was our team's turn to prayer walk. I felt more exhausted and attacked than I have this entire trip.  Despair came over me, so I prayed out of a spirit of desperation for the Lord to work.  I wanted to pray BIG prayers, but I didn't even have the strength.  I longed to pray with power, yet I felt powerless.  It was the work of the enemy.  I had to keep reminding myself that God would take all that I could offer in those two hours–walking step by step and uttering whispered, feeble prayers–to move mountains. "For when I am...

  Do you know that God holds us in His hands?? He wants us to depend on Him for EVERYTHING. When we don't let him hold us, we are not in sync will all that He has for us. We worry, we doubt, we stress out and think that we have to do it all. This is where I was a few days ago. I am not usually an anxious person, but thats where I was at this time.    I turned on my ipod to do a quiet time, because I had to give it to the Lord. The first song that played was "By your side" by Brandon Heath. God often speaks to me through music, and lyrics will suddenly...

Honestly, its hard walking onto Bangla Rd, seeing the perversity on that street and claiming joy for your soul.  And for me, its been a personally long struggle of wondering where my joy in life went.  Well, I've found it – and its been where I knew it was the whole time – in the promises and arms of Jesus.   Last week, we sat before heading out to the bars and I just felt uneasy so we sat and prayed for a while and then decided to head out to a road we hadn't been on before.  As we walked there (about 10 minutes), my team leader, Kirsten, decided to...