Home Sweet Home :)

So praises to the Lord I made it home safely late last night. To the best of my knowledge I don't have botchulism or any other crazy disease. I didn't break anything, lose anything, or have anything short of a perfect trip. I learned a lot and I think I was able to teach a few things as well. At the beginning of the trip I had said that I didn't want it to be about me, and it definitely wasn't. The Lord is doing great things down there and I was happy to be a part of them. I had said in the last blog that I would try to wrap things up in a more sensible fashion and now that I've had some more time to think and pray about it here goes.

The biggest thing that I got out of this trip was actually what the Lord had me preach and talk about on the radio. Don't worry about anything but chasing after God. Our clothes, our food, our money, all that other crap that tends up muck out our lives is of ZERO importance. The best story to go with that was of a man in muñoz (one of the villages) who has the nastiest cancerous butt tumor in the history of man kind. This guy cannot sit, he can only stand up or lay on his side. As you can imagine his health care sucks and his living conditions are on par with the pictures that I posted. This guy was not only leading worship on sunday night, He was dancing in the isles! If you looked at him you would think that God had blessed the socks off of his life. And he would think that too! Why?...how in the world can that be possible?!?! Because he is filthy rich in faith and the Spirit. He still eats, he's still clothed, he has a roof over his head, and yeah he's got next to nothing material wise. But he has abundantly more than he'll ever need in Jesus Christ.

You see, in God's sovereignty he chose some to have little in terms of material possessions and some to have much. But it became very obvious to me that those with few things tend to have a lot more faith. But we get so focused on the things that we question how God could allow them to have so little and how selfish those rich people must be to only care about themselves...we who are rich in faith, how selfish must we be to keep it inside the church walls and not share it with those who know nothing of the love of Christ...yeah I know, quite the challenge. But that's where God's heart is. Having His children back. Thank you all soooo much for all your prayers and support. You kids have been the best! Much love and God bless.