... I'll be sleeping at the Casa in Barahona again.
Praying for God to burst Heaven into Earth. For beautiful Kingdom work to captivate the hearts of God's people. For hope and healing to be stirred up in the hearts of children who CAN and WILL transform their nations.
This time next month, I'll be in Barahona, Dominican Republic. I'm heading down with a local team from Children of the Nations. We're planning to collect student stories for the COTN website. That is, we will talk with children who attend COTN schools and hear how God is working in their lives, their families, and their nations. What an honor.
We'll also travel to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti and meet the 13 students enrolled in the newest COTN sponsorship program. These students were identified as the highest medical risks of the children treated by COTN after the January 2010 earthquake. COTN has only recently begun serving the children and families in Haiti. It will be such a privilege to see God's Spirit move through a largely unreached people group. I've only seen Haiti over the fence of the Pedernales border, before. Humbled by the privilege of traveling past the border next month.
Please pray for God to prepare the way before us. Please pray for the members of our writing and photography team to seek deep, rich communion with God before and during the trip. Pray that our focus would always be on bringing God glory. Pray that we would surrender personal expectations, so that God may accomplish the EXTRAORDINARY.
This time next month, I probably won't be sleeping then, either.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
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Ephesians 5
Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints. Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting – all of which are out of character – but rather thanksgiving. For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them, for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light – for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth – and find out what pleases the Lord. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention. But all things being exposed by the light are made evident. For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says:
“Awake, O sleeper!
Rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you!”
Therefore be very careful how you live – not as unwise but as wise, taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil. For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord’s will is. And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for each other in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body. But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word, so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church, for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
And Jeff will be in Costa Rica going to language school!
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