| | I am in Costa Rica with a group of people who are studying God and trying to follow Him for our lives, His will and the salvation of the world. I feel very much like a disciple. with more luggage.
I am leaving for Nicaragua tomorrow with two other young women. We will wake up at 5 am to drive to the bus station. The other people in our group are now in Panama and Heredia, Costa Rica. I miss them a lot. We're working on audio and video for the San Jose base and for the DNA conference that happened last week and getting ready to go again.
There are people here from all over the world. It's wonderful. Panamanians of indigenous tribes, Germans, Mexicans, Columbians, and many from Central America. I love it.
And it's been busy. Even in it, it is not God Himself, and it is good to run away to Him. Oswald says it brilliantly in his Sept 16 devotional-
Prayer is coming into perfect fellowship and oneness with God. If the son of God has been formed in us through regernartion (Galations 4:19) then He will continue to press on beyond our common sense and will change our attitude about the things for which we pray. "Everyone who asks receives..." Matthew 7:8. We pray religious nonsense without even involving our will, and then we say that God did not answer- but in reality we have never asked for anything. ..... we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.
I need to ask God things that are really true on my heart. Praying for the world. All these oppressions and injustices. How do I align my thinking with aaaaall that is wrong in order to truly, heart-feltly pursue one thing that God would say, "Yes. This is what you should do." If I say I want to help people living in trash dumps, do I really even mean that? What do I really mean? What do I really pray about? What has Jesus revealed?
John Mark McMillan has a song that is delicious. Please get it off itunes or at least youtube it.
It's called-
Kiss Your Feet~
I dreamed I kissed your feet
Between the cigarette butts
On the side of fourteenth street
I got down on my hands and my knees
With an alabaster jar
I dreamed I'd bleed with your praises
Just to make the world
Smell like your grace again
I got down on my hands and my knees again
And I'm crawling on the floor
Just to find you now
To tell you how I feel I'm falling all over myself
Good morning brokeness
You know you've cut me to the bone
Like one of those days in the middle of the winter
The kind that you can't run away from
And we've been here for so long
But I found a way to appease you
Inside this alabaster jar
And I'm crawling on the floor
Just to find you now
To tell you how I feel I'm falling all over myself
And all my afflictions
They're only light ones anyway now
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