Being Available

Life in Cambodia is beginning to set in. The reality of living in a place like this takes some time to set in and to mentally BE HERE. Once you accept the fact that you are living in new place you begin to enjoy the small things and to make it your home. You invest your heart into the place you’re at you begin to see why God has called you there and what he actually wants to do through you. I have to quickly turn my focus from the minor discomforts to seeking Gods presence perspective.

We were able to spend a week at an orphanage in a village a few weeks ago. As we adjusted to sleeping on the floor in mosquito nets and taking bucket showers in rain water, we had our lives changed by these kids. They were mostly between the ages of 3 and 12 and were mostly all Christian. These kids wake up at 5 every morning to do chores before breakfast and then have a time of prayer and worship before school. They have prayer and worship three times a day and the rest of the day they are either at school, doing chores or playing games. The simplicity of their lives and their pure desire and devotion to God was nothing like I have ever seen. “Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God.”(Matthew 5:8) Seeing these kids sing to the Lord and cry out to him brought me to tears, not because of their lack in material things but because of the reality of Christ established in their lives. Those kids taught us more than we could have ever taught them.

“And he said: I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3)

God is working so visibly in people’s lives here. We were able to take a two day trip to a city called Siem Reap which is home of one of the Seven Wonders of the World Angkor Wat. God had been speaking to me allot about sharing the gospel and being available for him to move. I had these things on my mind as we headed there and had a good feeling that it was going to be more than just a weekend trip. I ended up running into two people that I was able to talk about Jesus with and pray with one of them to have a revelation of Jesus.

Our team is doing Korean classes and dance classes at the Youth Center we are working with. One of the classes has added a bible study and both have kids that are asking for bibles. The openness of the people here is incredible. They are truly hungry and wanting to know about Jesus. There is so much hope in my heart for this nation to be transformed and be built up with a foundation of Christ. What an amazing opportunity it has been to speak the love of Christ to the future leaders of Cambodia!