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| I had no idea what was coming |
Five years ago God broke my heart.
Five years ago God took me to Swaziland and introduced me to a world where little babies die, where children are sold for sex, where young boys are set on fire because their step fathers don't like them, a place where children are destined to die before they have lived.
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| Oh Swaziland thank you for breaking my heart |
Five years ago, I determined that I would never forget those faces or those stories. So I gave myself over to the Lord I said whatever you want, whatever you need, I am yours because the only way that these atrocities end is when the world bows down and worships God together.
Why do I go? Why do I rejoice in my parasites? Why am I willing to go again someday? Because these things don't just happen in Swaziland, they don't just happen in Africa, they happen all around the world. I want my generation to wake up and realize what is happening all around us. I want them to fight for those who think there is no hope, those who are broken and know it and those who are broken and don't know it. I want them to rise up and realize that as Christians they are called to join the battle raging all around us. That not only they are called, that God is equipping them to rise up if only they would wake up and start listening to his instruction on how to join this battle.
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| Awakening to hearing the Lords voice and learning their battle cry |
I want to my generation to wake up to the joy that comes from living radically for the Lord. This does not mean they have to travel around the world, but I want them to open their eyes and see the hurting all around us. I want my brothers and sisters in Christ to start fighting against the injustice that surrounds us, I want us to reach our physical arms out and hold those who are hurting. I want us to get out of our comfortable lives, to start getting dirty, to be unafraid of being ugly. I want freedom.
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| A sign of Freedom... |
This is why I went to Kenya the first and second time, this is also why I would go to Kenya again, its why I would go anywhere God sends me. When I go out as a leader with Adventures in Missions I have gotten to impart some of what God has given me, I get call out the greatness that God has for my students, I get to watch as God opens their eyes to what is going on in the world both the good and the bad.
This is my heart.
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| Free |
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| Still Free |
(Just as a little disclaimer non of these photo's are mine and they are stolen from other peoples camera's)
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