Halfway!

Today was the halfway point of my journey here in Haiti-5 weeks down, 5 to go.

Over the past 5 weeks God has done a lot of work in my life. I came down here worried about what was going to happen, if God was going to abandon me, and how I was going to survive 10 whole weeks down here. God has shown me that He does NOT lead me somewhere only to abandon me, He will be there side by side with me as I experience it. He has also shown me to a deeper level what it truly means to be a Servant of the King, and that to follow Him will mean sacrifice and changing how I live.

Looking ahead to the next 5 weeks, I anticipate growing to even deeper levels in my faith, as well as seeing God’s work even more here at COTP.

Also, today at a Bible study I lead, I used Romans 8, focusing on verses 9-11:

⁹ You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,he does not belong to Christ. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.

I gave part of my testimony along with this, as an example of how God will free you from the bondage of your sins, and you will die to sin if His spirit is in you. So be encouraged: if you are in a rut of sin, God is there with you, and you just need turn to Him and give your burdens to Him, and He will free you from your bondage.

In Christ,
David