I expect:
- My heart to be brokenfor the people of Kenya.
- To fall in love with the children.
To be renewed, transformed, and refined by the radical love of Jesus- To become an effective functioning part of the body of Christ.
- To cry.
- To laugh.
- To be humbled.
To recieve mega-awesome revelation & illumination. - To learn to wait on the Lord.
- To be ruined for the material things.
- To learn what it means to surrender everything to Jesus Christ.
- To make long-lasting relationships with my team and the orphans from Kenya.
- To see Jesus in the faces of the broken, the desperate, and poor.
I hope:
- to @ least get to shower 3 times a week.
- to become more of a listener than a talker.
- to serve as a teacher.
- to encourage and uplift my team and the people i meet.
- that i meet my trip cost before January 20th, 2009.
- to come back to Kenya.
- to see many healings.
- to see many come to the Lord.
- to see through the eyes of Jesus.
- to see the fulfillment of:
Isaiah 28:6-12
6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness [a] will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
11 The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
and will raise up the age-old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.
“The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.”
thank you for that.. it’s beautiful.
i agree with you about seeing this passage fulfilled.
that passage is beautiful. thank you for that. He will guide us always and fulfill our needs and stregthen us. He is our sword, strength and shield.
Josie,
Thank you for writing what you did! It really touched my heart, ESPECIALLY the passage from Isaiah. Whoa, that’s a powerful bunch of verses. May we come together as a family and honor our Repairer and Restorer.
Thanks, man!
Katie
Incredible.
Thank you so much for sharing your heart.
I love that passage of Isaiah…
Blessings,
Paige
Hey Jose,
I pray that God will meet every single desire of your heart on this trip. The passage from Isaiah is so powerful and spoke to me, as did your encouragement on my blog. Thanks so much for having an open and listening heart toward God. This trip will be awsome and life changing.
Leia
Wow I think I just got chills! God is speaking through you and will continue do multiply that on our trip! I can already tell that you are the type of person that will build and encourage and you will be greatly appreciated and loved on our trip! God Bless -Alyssa