My body here in Georgia, my heart and mind still in Mexico. The worst part about going somewhere is leaving, but I continue to pray for all the beautiful people that I met in Tijuana.
Some things God taught me...
Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me (Psalm 54:4)
God keeps me alive! He sustains me body and gives me physical as well as internal strength. In Him I am held together. When I got sick in Mexico He healed me! by means of charcoal, papaya seeds, garlic, His Spirit and His mighty Word. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone (Deuteronomy 34:7) No doctors, no hand sanitizer, no tylenol, no bench press, no treadmill, no glasses... God is Sustainer.
In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire— may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. (1 Peter 1:6-7)
The people from michigan say I say trials wierd... but that doesn't matter because I am going to keep saying it over and over, day after day, praying for more and more. I have come to see the beauty in trials. God is preparing His children to be fit for service in His kingdom, teaching them to trust and rely on Him.
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor." -Jesus
That was His mission. I became a follower of Jesus not because I had a lot going for me, nor because I was strong, intelligent, and kind of cool (although I was all of those things haha). Nor did I choose to follow Him because I was a good kid that went to Church every sunday and knew the Bible stories. No, I chose to follow Him because I saw my weakness and poverty. My lack of everything worth anything. Jesus commands us to preach the good news to those who are the most helpless, the most in need, the weakest, the rejects, the poor. Jesus really preached the good news to all different people, from rich tax collectors to lepers. The ones that rejected Him from time to time were the rich, while the poor fell in love with Him. The poor are ready to hear the good news.
Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ,who gives me strength. Phillipians 4:11-13
I am completely and utterly without need. Why? Because of Christ.
My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:26
That's a good note to end on. Dios Te Bendiga!!!
