Sweeter Than Candy

I had a completely different blog here, set to publish and I thought it  was deep – I even sent it to a few to critique.  Then I revised it – and then trashed it.  (I did salvage some of it for another post).

Dealing with spritual matters is a serious issue.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6

Make no mistake, your life is important.  You may think something is no big deal but in the spritual world it most likely is.

Something was bothering me last week and by Friday it was so heavy that I typed a blog as a defense against the devil – but what I didn’t know was that it was not a defensive move I needed – it was offensive !  Instead of backing up I prayed and moved forward.  It was not easy.

Of course I will elaborate……

Our mission team had a married couple back out, they had an emergency come up and just can not go.  The remaining team members prayed and we all felt that the Lord would pick the people to go. It was not our place to begin to start asking friends.  He was the team contractor for the chicken coops and so the enemy mocked me with the fact that I am separated from a contractor.  How all of my issues mixed with all of my husband’s  issues had cause a catastrophe in the spritual world and how he should have been with me on the team but was not.

The war raged but victory was sweet.

We had a huge BBQ fundraiser Sunday , the team members who had cancelled prepared the food as they had promised to do – we all celebrated that even though they cannot go with us they will be part of the home team helping from here while we are gone.  My 76 year old mother helped prepare and serve food and kept up just fine !  She said she felt more alive that she had in a very long time.  We served over 200 plates !!   YAY.  I was happy to Praise the Lord and work with my hands and not give place to the enemy .

While we were cleaning up I stopped a young man that had never helped before and witnessed to him that I felt an annointing upon him and that I appreciated how much of a blessing he was to cooking crew, the serving crew and the cleaning crew (all the same people by the way).  He was a blessing because his cheerfulness helped us all stay cheerful.  Then he shared some of his testimony with me and sure enough, he’s a Jesus Freak like me !!  I asked the team leader…

“So where did you find this guy?  He’s awesome, what a heart for God!”

All of the sudden she says – “How could I have overlooked this man? He’s been right here.”

Then we all had a moment where we thought the same thing at the same time……….

“Do you want to go to Africa, we have a ticket you can have?”

I thought he would faint. I also thought he would cry. To see him say yes and be so happy rejuvenated me.  To have such a heart to help all Saturday night, all Sunday with no thought of what he would gain then to be surprised with an offer for a free ticket to Africa – I would say he had a good weekend.

There is still a ticket left open, we are praying and waiting on God to bring us someone or have us use that money elsewhere.  But it is nice that God saw fit to bring a contractor back on board.  Oh, did I mention that he’s a CONTRACTOR !!!!!!!  Yay God.

Have a blessed Wednesday.  This is a much better blog than I had here before.