God is Amazing to Me!!

I have been in awe lately at the Lord's personal touch in my life. As Christians we always worship God because He is worthy. We pray because it is our lifeline to God and our hearts desire. But, you know, those personal touches He does in your life that just make your heart "gush" – well that is what I have had recently.

For example, Just the other day I prayed for a Thai friend. We meet many Thai people at school, but I wanted something a bit more personal. So I decided to pray about it. I go before my Father & put my desires before Him. Literally the NEXT day a family in our muubaan (community) walks up to our house and starts talking to Jackson. They have a 3 year old son. The man is American and from Carrollton of all places (very close to our home town) & he is married to a Thai women. The woman (I am ashamed to say I can not remember her name :0) and I begin talking in Thai & English back and forth. It was beautiful! She is a Buddhist & I am excited to get to know her more & share the gospel with her J I knew just then that God was showing me He loves me & cares for me! At the same time I get to share with her the passion & love & Lordship of my life – Jesus! I pray this friendship blossoms & the Kingdom advances!!!

Another example was just yesterday. It was my birthday (I turned 33!) Anyway, we were at a coffee shop having coffee & out of the blue my friend Brad walks in! Brad had been a part of our missions' team the last 1.5 & we all became like family. Anyway, he was called to the boarder of Thailand to do relief work after the cyclone hit Burma. We had no plans of meeting & he had no idea we were there. He was simply passing through Chiang Mai & thought he would have coffee. Wow! Happy Birthday Amy!!! I get to see a person precious to our family, unexpected J Nothing is unexpected to God!

Well, something similar happened to me in prayer. I was praying for God to keep my heart pure. To reveal things in my heart that needed to be brought to light. I realized that I had judgement in my heart. There is always a whisper here or a whisper there. After I repented before the Lord I asked Him, "How do I keep my heart pure Lord?" "How do I not judge my brother/sister?" One thing was revealed is to test all things against Scripture, but from there I was given 1 Corinthians 4:5 –

5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

Wow! How freeing that is? God will judge the motives of men's hearts. I do not know why I ever thought it was my place anyway? Wow, pride too! Forgive me Lord! I share that because I hope it brings freedom to your life if you ever go through something similar. Freedom!!!