Today in Hollywood I prayed for a homeless women who was 8 months pregnant.
We were in the city with the Mission Adventures team stepping out in boldness to evangelize to the people God lead us to. I was across the street and through the crowds of people I saw two little dogs laying on the ground by a palm tree, and I saw some pink sweatpants by them too. I couldn't see anything else so I kinda moved around to see if I could get a better look of the person, but I couldn't. So I just decided to cross the street and go find out. As I crossed I saw that it was a young women and she was staring at the ground and she was pregnant. So I sat down and asked her her name and age. She was only 25. I asked her how often she eats, she said maybe a small amount 3 times a day. I asked her how she was feeling and she said she was in a lot of pain. I continued to ask questions to get to know her more and she was extremely hopeless. She went on to tell me that she saw me looking over here from across the street and she knew something was going to happen. ( guess it was pretty obvious)
Everything inside of me wanted to fix everything. Everything inside of me still wants to go find her and makes sure her baby is delivered safely and she is healthy. She has no home no place to sleep besides the streets.
As I returned home after this day of adventures, I couldn't stop thinking of how absurd and completely different others lives are from my own. How different it is to live in a world where love is not evident, where hope is no where near, where abusive words are thrown and accepted as normal and true, where confusion makes sense, and where life is barely holding on.
I have no Idea what it is like to live in that world every day of my life. But today because I have chosen to be used by God, he brought me to some people and showed me what it is like to be bold and allow myself to stop thinking of my own life and realize what life is for someone else.
Its in those moments where we step out, and reach out to someone who is completely unknown to us, that we realize that God truly is real. Because no matter the condition of any persons life in the whole wide world, whatever they are pursuing, whatever their struggle, whatever their beliefs, whatever kind of confusing explanation thy give you about how they came to be where they are, we all are on this earth to be loved by God. The reason our world is so twisted is because we don't live in the truth that God loves us beyond what we can explain or imagine.
If as Christians and believers of God we walked out a lifestyle displaying that we know why we were created then others would see it.
A new concept was introduced to me this week that made me review my own life, is that if we truly know the person we are making a sacrifice for, is it really a sacrifice at all?
We are loved by God, that is literally our true Identity. What if we started living like we were loved the way that we are? Then taking a step of boldness to reach out to those who don't know anything at all about their true identity wouldn't even be that much of a sacrifice. It mostly would mean us giving up our pride, our fear of looking dumb, our fear of completely sounding like fool, our fear of not knowing what to say. It takes trusting God, and believing in our hearts that God's love is so perfect that fear isn't even legit.
Lets start knowing God better, lets start operating out of our true identities, and lets start talking to unknown people about a love that is foreign to them.
Do you truly believe in your heart that God wants to use you?
We were in the city with the Mission Adventures team stepping out in boldness to evangelize to the people God lead us to. I was across the street and through the crowds of people I saw two little dogs laying on the ground by a palm tree, and I saw some pink sweatpants by them too. I couldn't see anything else so I kinda moved around to see if I could get a better look of the person, but I couldn't. So I just decided to cross the street and go find out. As I crossed I saw that it was a young women and she was staring at the ground and she was pregnant. So I sat down and asked her her name and age. She was only 25. I asked her how often she eats, she said maybe a small amount 3 times a day. I asked her how she was feeling and she said she was in a lot of pain. I continued to ask questions to get to know her more and she was extremely hopeless. She went on to tell me that she saw me looking over here from across the street and she knew something was going to happen. ( guess it was pretty obvious)
Everything inside of me wanted to fix everything. Everything inside of me still wants to go find her and makes sure her baby is delivered safely and she is healthy. She has no home no place to sleep besides the streets.
As I returned home after this day of adventures, I couldn't stop thinking of how absurd and completely different others lives are from my own. How different it is to live in a world where love is not evident, where hope is no where near, where abusive words are thrown and accepted as normal and true, where confusion makes sense, and where life is barely holding on.
I have no Idea what it is like to live in that world every day of my life. But today because I have chosen to be used by God, he brought me to some people and showed me what it is like to be bold and allow myself to stop thinking of my own life and realize what life is for someone else.
Its in those moments where we step out, and reach out to someone who is completely unknown to us, that we realize that God truly is real. Because no matter the condition of any persons life in the whole wide world, whatever they are pursuing, whatever their struggle, whatever their beliefs, whatever kind of confusing explanation thy give you about how they came to be where they are, we all are on this earth to be loved by God. The reason our world is so twisted is because we don't live in the truth that God loves us beyond what we can explain or imagine.
If as Christians and believers of God we walked out a lifestyle displaying that we know why we were created then others would see it.
A new concept was introduced to me this week that made me review my own life, is that if we truly know the person we are making a sacrifice for, is it really a sacrifice at all?
We are loved by God, that is literally our true Identity. What if we started living like we were loved the way that we are? Then taking a step of boldness to reach out to those who don't know anything at all about their true identity wouldn't even be that much of a sacrifice. It mostly would mean us giving up our pride, our fear of looking dumb, our fear of completely sounding like fool, our fear of not knowing what to say. It takes trusting God, and believing in our hearts that God's love is so perfect that fear isn't even legit.
Lets start knowing God better, lets start operating out of our true identities, and lets start talking to unknown people about a love that is foreign to them.
Do you truly believe in your heart that God wants to use you?