Never Leave the Presence of God

Random: Today we got a flier for an "Authentic Chinese Restaurant." The first three meals on the menu included potatoes and arepas (both very typical Colombian foods. Arepas are flavorless, corn tortillas that I don't think exist anywhere else). Some Colombians just don't get out much.


This week has been like a break through for me. I love how even though I'm a "pastor", I get to work through things and have pastor time for me every week with my pastor. This week my pastor and my best friend that was in my school were talking about identity. There are a lot of things I know are true about myself: like I have value and I am beautiful, but even though my head knows it my heart doesn't believe it. My pastor, Claudia, told me that to move info from my head to my heart I need to pray for some divine revelation and let God make the truth come alive for me.

It was one of those things that I can’t pinpoint the moment when it happened. It wasn’t a flash of lightening, but every moment of my day is different right now than it has ever been before in my life. For example, in devotional time one of my students was sitting in the living room with me. I was praying and would just be so filled with joy that I would keep bursting out laughing. She would crack up too just because it was so funny to watch me. Then another one of my students in a different room came and asked us to be quiet so they could concentrate. I think she was surprised that it was me making the noise. But living in the presence of God is so real that I have to really work to keep from laughing at times.

I don’t know how God did it, but I shouldn’t be surprised because he is God after all. I know the love of God pouring through me. Another cool part is that I listen to him telling me so many more things that I wasn’t attentive to before. When I just listen, God tells me so many things that are going on in people’s lives, and sometimes even things from their past that I couldn’t know without being told. It’s kind of feels like being Neo from “Matrix” when he starts seeing everything in those green number/letter columns because he knows the real world; and what he’s experiencing isn’t it. Then I know how to approach people or what they need: encouragement, challenging, love. God is so wonderful! But recently he’s also been giving me many promises for my own life. He doesn’t have to tell me about my future, but he has been. I guess he just wants to give me assurance of his love and plan for me. Who knew living in the presence of God was so intimate and so constant?


This weekend the King's Kids are going to be in the house practicing (an extra 40 people). I still haven't had a free weekend, but I can't pretend I'm not busting with excitement for King's Kids. They are teaching new kids, so I won't be very far behind. And this week some of the King's Kids in the school worked on some dances with me. I'm working on sending a movie they made of King's Kids so some of you can see it. They're just awesome. But I think the leaders who make up the dances are on something because I've never seen "adults" so hyper or move so fast! I'll let you know when this grenga gets some latin flavor in her style:)