Herbert, one of the speaker said, "I thought i knew how to love until I went to mozambique. And I realized I really don't know. I thought I have figured it out to follow Jesus but I really have not."
It hits me so much. I basically feels the same thing when arrived in this small but such an eye opener province of mozambique, PEMBA. When we serve in various ministries, have our own ministries, gave up most just to follow Jesus; we might think that we already figured it out, but Jesus is alot more complex than that. We really can't figure Him out because it's a process until the day we meet Him face to face. Every new journey He will take us or ask us to do He will require us to die from the old us and old ways. Jesus will say, time for a new thing! Drop it all. All those old ways! It wont really wort out for your new assignment and you will see yourself struggling to start a new you and new perspective. All along I thought, somehow I have figured it out but not, and I am learning day by day of intimacy with the Lord! I knew He is so tangible in my life ever since but there is always more. I thought I have known how to love from all that I have seen, from all the nations I have learned to love until God gave you a woman with total skin desease to be prayed for ans lay hands and all I knew about loving a stranger just totally crashed! I realized I have really not known what it feels to really love a person beyond your own benefit and totally none in return and with total risk just to follow Christ. I found out it's not easy what Jesus do to those bunch of people that comes for help in His presence. God showed me I knew just so little about how it is to have that compassion and eventually showed me how! He breaks me! All that i know; but right away build me up! What an amazing God we have! He will bring you somewhere to break you and make you complete again by His love and grace! That is the God that I serve! That is my Saviour Jesus! My redeemer! The perfector of faith! The Lover of my Soul! Every experience and time spent for the Lord counts! I would rather be in a place God called me and let His name reign than a place where people only knows my name. Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. - Psalm 84:10 Thank You Lord! Show me Your ways! Show me Your heart Lord! Let me die to live again! 😊 I am alive because You DIED. I am here because You ROSE! Ok. So alot of Miracles are going on here and it's just the beginning. But I guess let's start with just a simple one and It's awesome when you realized that God is already making it happen before you even get here. I just want to thank those who helped me to get here! Amazing people! You all know who you are. Papa rolland said, to call it faith then something must have happened. There should be an outcome. If you put your faith that you will be here then you will be here if you are not here then you not here. God is not really sending you here. It's a faith to what God really will do actually! Not base on our own faith and demand after God. Faith is a gift from God and from God! Faith should have an outcome in a sense that it's an evidence of the things hope for. Things you don't see but you believe can happen because God put it in your heart because it is His will. So, it takes lot of those faith to get here in pemba, mozambique. 😂 but one thing is to BELIEVE COMPLETELY that this is what God wants you to do. Believing What God want to do even it seems impossible. Nothing will be impossible and there's no way anything can stop it. So i guess, it's cool to share this so simple story. So I packed all my things, crazy packing. All those who really knew me will feel me. Haha... (I don't pack early) so this is a struggle plus there's a conference coming up. Ok. So the night in the airport when nesh brought all my things his first line was "what did you put on that bag? So heavy! Did you put gold? So, i was like, "i don't have any idea since i have not really carry the trek pack since i packed all the stuff, with the sleeping bag on, tents and everything. I tried to estimate the pink luggage though but have not carry the trek pack at all. I don't have gauge, all i have is faith. Charity asked me, did you weigh your bags. And i said, nope! Just hoping for the best with all the stuff needed and required for the outreach. I don't have any choice though so, having faith that it wont exceed. So singapore airlines have 30kg allowance! It was super cool! When they weighed my bags. The pink luggage was 21kg and the trek pack was 10kg. Hahahaha😂😂😂 awesome! That was so amazing! I thank God! But i even think, yep! Just estimate it nicely like i used to do with all my travels. Then, i told myself i just carry on the back pack since LAM (my next flight) only allows 20kg from Johannesburg to Pemba. But then thank God!!! SA said, they will transfer it on directly, aircraft to aircraft. It was like cool.. Because i don't want to be delayed for my next flight waiting for my bags to be collected and i only have 2 hours buffer. Then when I finally get to Pemba my prayer was I hope my bags and guitar make it to the right country. So, amazingly my bags, both bags where amongst the first 5 except the guitar that went a bit at the end which made me worried a bit. Then my gosh!!!! For the very first time i carried the trek pack and now i understand what nesh is talking about and oww my God this is definitely more than 10kg. I know how to estimate bags in my shoulders. I carry like about 20kg with my purple trek back. I know definitely it's more than that and wow! That is miracle in many sense. God do cool stuff, big or small just to make things happen for us. So don't you dare think that God don't care! God care regardless if it's a small or big deal for us. He knows us by name and numbered our hairs. He cares Anything about us, His children is a big deal for daddy God. I'm just so thankful He never leave me nor forsake me! Isn't God super cool...😍😍😍
Well, some groups here from their bush outreach just raised one kid from dead. So awesome for starters, made me excited what God will do for our group bush outreach. 😊 Can you guess what is he thinking? I remember how my professor in photography said, the most powerful subject is the eye of the subject. I took it last sunday after church during water baptism. He was not part of those getting baptize but he is one of the supporters or just one of the watchers maybe. I am not so sure but after taking his photo, I suddenly thought what is he thinking? I have been wanting to share this photo for a long time but besides the fact that I can't go online anytime I want and I actually don't want to be distracted by the online world as well, I guess God always pick up His own timing. This place that I have been for some weeks now is where I felt the heart of God closer, maybe because of so much brokenness and my heart breaks seeing this kid eyes. I asked God, what is he feeling right now Lord?
I remember, they said, "the eye is the window of our soul." I believe so. What do you think God sees from your life at the moment? What message do you think your eyes are conveying? Is it the joy and love from God? Is it a joy and love that comes from this world? Is it a love planted by God? Or a deceit planted by the enemy? Is it pain brought by the past, present and the fear of the future? Or is it that satisfying peace brought by the blood of Jesus in the cross? I don't know. We all have our different stories. But what I want my eyes to tell is the "love story of Jesus in my life." I want my eyes to tell the world how loving my saviour is, despite of the pain and disappointment this world can bring. I want only the Love of Jesus to be conveyed by these precious eyes God gave me. So what is your story? What is the story behind your eyes? Matthew 6:22-23 "The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! #passion #calling #africa #pemba #photography #africatrip2016 #Africanboy #story #Lifetothefullest #eyes #waterbap #art #emotion #thestorybehindtheeyes #sundayentry #thankful #Godscreation #onelife #oneGod #WordofGod So, I guess I missed sharing some good stuff ha.. Good photos and great stories behind it. Well then, this is just one of the amazing sunrise I have took while I'm in or around or on my way from or to the prayer Hut. How Glorious it looked like here in Africa! Gazing in this amazing view while having my moment with God just made it perfect! It might be really late now in singapore but it's about 8pm here now. It's saturday so, It's a sabbath day, so welcome to the online world. I finally get to the town. So I guess I need to post as much as I can.. But wait, no hurry. Digest how God talk through this photo. Today His message was from Lamentation 3:22-41
But let me give just this, "Through the Lords' mercies we are not consumed, because His compassion fail not. They are new EVERY MORNING; great is your faithfulness." The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I hope in Him." #sunrise #hope #newbeginning #newday #kainosexperience #naturelover #morningprayerphoto #5:30am #mozambique #africa #Lordscreation #africatrip2016 #sun #photography #Godspromise God promised! He is a promise keeper! There will always be a new day! No worries you still got your chance. Chance to fully turn away from your old life and turn to God! You still got chance! To wake up another morning and let God make a change through you. Hope! Live! Believe! 😊😊😊 The sun will always rise every morning! |
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