God is AMAZING!!!

God has been growing me in such leaps and bounds, and stretching me beyond my comfort levels. Amazing, exhausting, scary and special are the words that come to mind. So before next week and several different ministries occur, I must share some of the more personal things God has been blessing me with.

I’ve been reading Richard Blackaby’s book Unlimiting God. It is an excellent book and one scripture has been challenging me, repeatedly. It is 2 Kings 4:1-7, where the widow came to Elisha to say the creditors were coming to sell her sons into slavery. “He (Elisha) instructed her to gather all the containers she could borrow from her neighbors. ‘Do not gather just a few,’ he urged her. She was to pour her meager amount of oil into those containers, then ‘set aside the full ones.’” And then the question in the book that has haunted me “If God gave you that message, how many containers would you collect? When would you decide you had gathered enough?” “The flow of oil ceased because the widow had no capacity to receive anything more from God. It wasn’t that God couldn’t keep the oil coming; the woman simply was incapable of receiving any more . . . God responded to the level of her faith.”

Oh, to grow my level of faith!!!

He has blessed me with so much, not so much materially as He has in joy and peace and hunger to know Him more. I thought the opportunity to take a trip of a lifetime through Southern Africa was beyond my grasp, financially and time away from the office. But God let the oil flow.

The trip was birthed in an effort to give support to a former colleague, Karabo "KB" from Botswana by attending his wedding and helping out the day before. KB is a testimony of God’s grace and love as God he grew this young man, whose life had reached the bottom, through his mom placing him in a teen challenge program in foreign country to overcome his addictions. Her graduated from there and pursued bible college and become an instrumental worker in discipling our cooks at Children's Cup and now he had found a godly woman, Lebo, to share his life with. It was an honor to be able to attend.

If that was not enough, God enabled us to be able to see one of the 7 Wonders of the World, Victoria Falls (just a few hundred kilometers beyond the wedding)

And then to travel down to see the ministry going on in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe through Celebration church and Children’s Cup and to spend time with Zinty, who used to be my right hand person with Mission of Mercy in Swaziland, and her husband Lungile.

God’s hand was evident the whole trip; from the shoestring budget, the safe roads, my truck not having any trouble, smooth passage at the borders, and no problems with the police.

He blessed us with getting to spend time with old friends who had moved away and to make new ones.

God is so faithful!!! What if I had brought Him more jars to fill?