Hello Friends, I so
want to show you photos of our goings-around Yosemite and the Bay Area, and
tell you about his home town that he told me about. But I’m not going to because I want to
protect my friend. In our church, we
have missionaries in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and we write little
about them online for the same reasons.
Their names and location need to be withheld for their protection from
those who would want to bring harm to them and their families.
So you want to know my main take away from two weeks of
living with a pastor from Nigeria? Pray about everything. The first time I met him, last year, I asked
him how he got the money to buy a plane ticket, knowing that it cost him
roughly six months income. His reply: “I prayed and asked God for it, I believed
for it, and by God’s grace it came in.”
For him, everything is “by God’s grace.”
Lord, my prayer is that by God’s grace, I will enter into
that place of prayer that hears, sees, and receives…to your glory.
You do not have
because you do not ask. You ask, and do
not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. (James 4:2b-3, NKJV)
Such a blessing to have him here. He certainly inspired me to pray more, and pray with more spirit. I'll miss him!
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