It has been 3 weeks in Malaysia now, and God has been moving. Coming into Malaysia, I struggled to get into my word and pray. Every time we would have squad worship or church, I would wonder why I couldn’t hear God or feel Him. I got so convicted one night that I couldn’t hear Him because I wasn’t putting the effort into the relationship as much as I should have been. He just told me that I get out what I put into it. So since then, every day I have been in my word and in prayer. He wants to be pursued as much as we do. I have to put in effort to build this relationship, and He honors the effort. Since then, I can hear and feel God more clearly and more regularly already. God is so cool! He never fails, and is always true to His promises.
God has also truly grown me in my obedience when it comes to speaking His truth. One day I had received not good news, and I wasn’t in the best mindset, but I was supposed to speak at a church that night. If it wasn’t for that news though, I wouldn’t have given the message that I had given, and God wouldn’t have used me to reach those people in the way that He did. He has truly been convicting me to just trust Him. There have been several instances, including this one, where I had wished I was somewhere else; Either because of FOMO, or because I was in a bad head space. Through all of those instances, God has shown up, and given me exactly what I needed. He would speak to me and fill me with things I couldn’t have gotten if I were somewhere else. He keeps reminding me to trust in Him and to find comfort in the fact that He has me exactly where I need to be. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” (2 Corinthians 1: 3-4)
Along with seeing fruit in my own relationship with God, I have seen Gods fruit in others. The first week we were here, I met a guy at the Chinese food mart. He came and sat with us, and taught us how to use chopsticks. We created a friendship with him very fast. The next week we meet up with him again. This time we had invited him to church. We didn’t know anything about what he believed in, but he said yes! I was very nervous to be honest. When he came to church that night, I just wanted him to receive it well. I was interceding the whole night, that he would receive and feel Gods love and peace; that all spirits of fear, judgment, and spiritual blindness would be gone in the name of Jesus. God answered so clearly. After the service we had talked to him about what he had thought, and he said “it was so healing”. Praise God! He had understood and felt Gods love and peace. This was his first time ever going to church! We had given him some resources to take home with him, as well as the pictures of some bible verses that he had taken on his phone. We are still in contact, and he is still wanting to come back to church! God is so faithful! In the times and places we think we won’t see the fruit of God, He will still show it to us.
God is so good and I am so excited to see what else He has in store for me the rest of the time I am in Malaysia!
“The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still”
(Exodus 14:14)
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