Prove It

On Sunday night I was feeling a little overwhelmed and just kept hearing the Lord speak.

John 21:15-18

” When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?””Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.” Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.” The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.  Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”    “

“Feed my Lambs,” the Lord said. ” Prove that you love me”

So on Monday, with the Lord screaming that into my brain, we prayed and sought out new opportunities to bring the Lord’s Kingdom to Earth.

In the evening, a few of us went to the train station, where many people live on the streets. A lot of them are young children, many are disabled, some just had no where else to go. In Asia, it takes a lot of time to build relationships with people, so to show that we do care about them our contacts picked out some nutritious food for us to hand out to them. We went to person after person handing them a hard-boiled egg, a banana and some mango juice. There was one man, who really stuck out to me and touched my heart, he was mentally challenged, both feet were club- footed, he couldn’t move from his spot and when he received the food he looked up to the sky, almost like he knew it came from the one true God.  

 

“Feed my Lambs”

Tuesday and Thursday, we got a few people and went to a refugee camp. Maria Minor wrote a blog on the experience: http://india.adventures.org/?filename=refuge

On Wednesday and Friday, some of the ladies on the team woke up early and went to the school down the road to teach, the principal is paying us with Chai tea to teach three classes a day, two times a week English. Our boys at Asha go to that school and it is so fun and awesome to see them finally becoming part of society, learning and having fun with their school friends. Most of their classmates come from Hindu families and it’s great to see my boys living for Christ and setting an example for them. Our boys didn’t have the money for books this year, so a couple people with teacher friends got some support from home and all the boys got to have their books for this year. After school on Friday each boy got the books for their classes and it was by far the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen. It was more that just giving them books, it was giving them hope for a brighter future. A future that doesn’t consist of living on the streets and stealing to get by. We got pictures of each boy with his brand new school books and wrote their names on the inside.

A little while later we went to a hospital, not just any hospital, a government run hospital. The Indian hospitals I’ve been to previously have been private and I thought they were disgusting, those hospitals were pristine compared to this place. We specifically went to the neo-natal, baby ward of the hospital. On the way there we saw feces, urine and blood on the floor covering the hallways. There were stray dogs running around and extremely sick people laying on the floor. It was spiritually a very dark place, all the hope had been sucked out and instead filled with despair. The bathroom that the women have to wash off in after they have their babies was about the foulest thing I have ever seen and many of the newborn babies born at that hospital are very sick. We went to a room filled with babies and mothers and prayed over some and just the thought that their could be possibly some hope made them burst into tears.

So although there is only three or so weeks left of my time here in India, I think it is clear that it is harvest time and that the Lord is about to show His glory in some amazing ways.