God called on us to approach the thrown of grace for a small group of people in the Mountains. God placed the a small groupd of people of India in the hearts of a small church of believers in north eastern Colorado. My heart would stir when we prayed for a people so unknown and far across the world. Emmanuel Baptist is God’s plan for the people’s of India. I am in awe once a gain to be a part of God’s global plan. With all the miracles and confirmations from heaven above I still tried to back out of the trip India. Lord, I do not have the money to go to India again. Money started to flow to the India mission trip. I give up, Lord please help me to obey with my stubborn heart. I can say I won’t forget, but human nature always takes over.
All I can say is that God answers the prayers of his people!!! My life is living proof of God’s faithfulness. Psalm 115:1 Not to us, O lord, not to us, but to your name be the glory because of your love and faithfulness! India is a very diverse land with many different people groups. I enjoyed seeing a different side of India the ocean and country-side . My plan was for the sky to open as in Acts and for people to be saved. God’s plan was not for the mountain people to even meet at the compound where we stayed, but for us to go to them on their own land and in their own homes. Walking from the jeeps stopping point to the village was out of a movie scene that only God can write. Walking on a dry dirt road between fields growing rice at different stages, watching herders watch their cattle graze, and watching the herder watching his water buffalo so they didn’t destroy the rice paddies that were so carefully tended and planted by hand one by one was amazing.. Seeing holes on the sides of the terraced fields that are filled with rats and cobras in the rainy season frightening. God’s plan for us to come in the hot dry season without snakes and rats, yay!!! A group of people welcomed us to the village with flower garlands. I thought this was only in Hawaii and secretly I had always hoped to be welcomed in this way. To see the villages that we had prayed for brought the dream into a reality. God loves this group of people in India and he is using us to show them. Pastor Sean spoke to the believers with a local pastor translating their words, your words Lord. I will never forget the disbelief and wonder in their faces upon hearing,” That a people that look so different came7,000 miles across the world and have been praying for their salvation for 4 years.. A church in America loves the people of India. “God will not forget the Indian people and he sent us as the strange looking proof. The group that listened out in the open was fairly small, but eyes and ears from others heard and saw. We were even able to pray over the home of the family of the very first Christian wedding to take place. What a life changing experience to be able to hold the hands of the people that we have prayed for. Hands that are so rough and leathery from hard physical labor I was embarrassed by my very soft hands. Rice fields with every single plant placed there by hand . Fields worked by hand, weeded by hand, transplanted by hand, and harvested all by hand. The air so fresh and the land so clean. Mathew 9:37 Then he (Jesus) said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”For years I have wanted to see terraced rice fields up close and to see and have water buffalo milk. These were just a few small items on my list for life. Little did I know that God remembered my small hopes. I went to China and never need see a rice field because we never left the city. I was able to see rice paddies at all stages of growth and close enough to touch. Anyone that knows me knows that coffee and tea can make or break a day. Let me tell you all that Inidan-Chai with buffalo milk is the best. Not my plans, but his and thank you Lord! A life and world so different and so far away yet God weaved our hearts together for eternity. My prayer is that groups from our church will keep visiting the peoples of India and that our prayers for this people would storm heaven.
Revelation 7:9 After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the thrown and in front of the LAMB. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
Revelation 7:16-17 Never again will they hunger; never again will they thrist. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat. For the LAMB at the center of the thrown will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
All I can say is that God answers the prayers of his people!!! My life is living proof of God’s faithfulness. Psalm 115:1 Not to us, O lord, not to us, but to your name be the glory because of your love and faithfulness! India is a very diverse land with many different people groups. I enjoyed seeing a different side of India the ocean and country-side . My plan was for the sky to open as in Acts and for people to be saved. God’s plan was not for the mountain people to even meet at the compound where we stayed, but for us to go to them on their own land and in their own homes. Walking from the jeeps stopping point to the village was out of a movie scene that only God can write. Walking on a dry dirt road between fields growing rice at different stages, watching herders watch their cattle graze, and watching the herder watching his water buffalo so they didn’t destroy the rice paddies that were so carefully tended and planted by hand one by one was amazing.. Seeing holes on the sides of the terraced fields that are filled with rats and cobras in the rainy season frightening. God’s plan for us to come in the hot dry season without snakes and rats, yay!!! A group of people welcomed us to the village with flower garlands. I thought this was only in Hawaii and secretly I had always hoped to be welcomed in this way. To see the villages that we had prayed for brought the dream into a reality. God loves this group of people in India and he is using us to show them. Pastor Sean spoke to the believers with a local pastor translating their words, your words Lord. I will never forget the disbelief and wonder in their faces upon hearing,” That a people that look so different came7,000 miles across the world and have been praying for their salvation for 4 years.. A church in America loves the people of India. “God will not forget the Indian people and he sent us as the strange looking proof. The group that listened out in the open was fairly small, but eyes and ears from others heard and saw. We were even able to pray over the home of the family of the very first Christian wedding to take place. What a life changing experience to be able to hold the hands of the people that we have prayed for. Hands that are so rough and leathery from hard physical labor I was embarrassed by my very soft hands. Rice fields with every single plant placed there by hand . Fields worked by hand, weeded by hand, transplanted by hand, and harvested all by hand. The air so fresh and the land so clean. Mathew 9:37 Then he (Jesus) said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”For years I have wanted to see terraced rice fields up close and to see and have water buffalo milk. These were just a few small items on my list for life. Little did I know that God remembered my small hopes. I went to China and never need see a rice field because we never left the city. I was able to see rice paddies at all stages of growth and close enough to touch. Anyone that knows me knows that coffee and tea can make or break a day. Let me tell you all that Inidan-Chai with buffalo milk is the best. Not my plans, but his and thank you Lord! A life and world so different and so far away yet God weaved our hearts together for eternity. My prayer is that groups from our church will keep visiting the peoples of India and that our prayers for this people would storm heaven.
Revelation 7:9 After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the thrown and in front of the LAMB. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
Revelation 7:16-17 Never again will they hunger; never again will they thrist. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat. For the LAMB at the center of the thrown will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
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God is listening to those prayers!
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