Spirit of the Living God

I couldn't have picked a more beautiful place to spend the next 2 months, Phuket scenery is absolutely breathtaking and the people are just as beautiful. 
My team is staying at a house with a couple other missionary groups, there are 72 people in our house… I love it. I love how busy it is, I love everyones passion, I love the craziness… kinda reminds me of home. The past week our team has been doing a lot of preparation for starting bar ministry next week, preparing our hearts for what we're going to see and just encouraging each other in our identities in Christ. We are stepping into an intense environment next week so we've just been making sure our hearts are ready.
 On Monday our team went down to Bangla road- the main road downtown with hundreds and hundreds of bars- to prayer walk (where we'll be doing ministry). The atmosphere there was so thick, and the darkness was so tangible, I was shocked because it was only 245 in the afternoon. We walked up and down the road and prayed for freedom to reign in the streets, prayed for the spirit of conviction for everyone who walks into the bars, prayed for the Holy Spirit to move in powerful ways, and prayed for the Lord to give us pictures of faces and peoples names he wants us to meet. The prayer walk seemed slightly surreal, I was surrounded by such a spirit of sadness and darkness, all these men and women longing for worth and identity but searching in the wrong places. Walking up and down the streets I was overwhelmed with a lot of emotion- I couldn't believe it was real… it really hit me, people are selling themselves in every single one of these bars, I couldn't believe that God had given me, Bre, the opportunity to be his vessel in preaching the good news to these men and women, I was frustrated with the people supporting the industry, I was fighting the feeling of being inadequate, and the list goes on. But God has since then quieted my spirit. 
I, as a believer in Christ, have the spirit of the living God inside of me. 
Romans 8: 9-11 " You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you."
The Spirit of God that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me! How amazing, this gives me nothing but peace and confidence for the journey ahead of me. I can embrace the feeling of inadequacy because I am giving the men and woman in these bars nothing of myself, I am giving them only the gift I have so freely been given, I can trust the Spirit of the Living God inside of me to lead me to specific bars, specific girls, and to speak through every conversation I have. I can pray and ask for his light to shine so brightly through our group, that as we walk down the street, we don't even have to say anything but people would look at us and know we are different and be drawn to us. They would see that we walk with confidence and power that only comes from Christ.
 Eph 1:19 " and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe"

I believe, and am so excited to see the ways which God reveals His power on Bangla road.

Love you all! Thank you for all the prayers. 
Bre

p.s. I may or may not be bungee jumping tomorrow 🙂