Thursday, August 5, 2010

Discipleship cycles and sickness

Over this past week, we have seen an amazing breakthrough in the bible studies. This week I have shifted from being the leader of the bible study to having a Cambodian lead the whole thing, while I am simply assisting. It is a very exciting time, because the group is going to be able to support itself and be sustainable even after we go back to Kona! It is only by the grace of God of course, and its totally by faith because I only speak about 5 words in Khmer.

In addition, the leader that has taken authority and is also helping every other person in the group to be leaders too. Just these last few days we have really been studying about salvation, taking them through the gospel, and they have been teaching it to each other and practicing answering questions! It truly is happening in an amazing way, and I thank God that I get to be a part of it!

One of the cool parts about following God is that its not just for the "professionals," its for everyone, not matter whether they're in full time ministry or a janitor at school. Not matter where we are we all have as much capabilities to represent Christ and disciple the world, because we all have the same holy spirit!

Of course, with the Kingdom of God advancing very rapidly, a few members of the team have also been getting sick. Right now I have a nasty foot infection, but God is so big that He could heal it instantly! At the same time as hoping for that, I'm also able to go to a local clinic to get another one of God's blessings: medicine!

Another amazing blessing is the ability to go to Angkor Wat tomorrow, one of the 7 wonders of the world! Praise God!

So please agree with God's heart and pray in the following areas:
1. Sickness begone in Jesus' name!
2. Continued depth of intimacy with Jesus
3. Continued vision for these next 5 weeks
4. For the House of Prayer to become functioning
5. For the students to become hungry for baptism and real boldness about their faith
6. Real discipleship that will still be going even after we leave