Answered Prayers

God is great!! :-D This week has been simply amazing & I am forever grateful for the opportunity given. Last week, I was kind of frustrated and struggling with a couple of things - one of them personal but the other was just that I wanted to really hear from God and know what He wanted to do with me here in Brasil. I was looking for direction and like I said, REALLY wanted to hear from God. So I decided to fast for three days & three nights and just spend all my time reading scriptures and worshiping Him and staying in prayer. I've gotta tell ya, I have never felt the Holy Spirit or God moving in me as I have now :) God answered both of my prayers... and quickly! In ways that I never saw coming haha The night of the 2nd day of my fast, I was invited to meet up with my friend who was working with a group here called ABU (in the US i think they said the name was Interversity....?? wow I probably am way off on that name...) who were finishing a conference here in Campo Grande by speaking to the college students about their lives and their different faiths... Although part of me was really scared b/c I thought "how am I going to speak to people with my limited portuguese?!", part of me really wanted to go b/c I felt God tugging me... So I kept praying about it and I ended up being able to go and it was really good :) I got to talk to these 2 girls, in portuguese haha, and one of them gave me their email so I'm hoping to maybe get to talk to her here again soon. Afterward, I went out to eat (although I didn't eat haha) with the team from ABU and was somehow invited to join them in a few days for their last conference, which was in Dourados, another town a few hours away. I continued to fast and pray the next day, my last day and later that night, I got the call from Phil, the leader, that they were able to get me on last minute - so I could go!! I was so excited and had really been praying for God to either open this door or shut it closed but it was opened wide and I had a wonderful week! I went with a couple of the guys to a big high school during their lunch break one day & we talked about ABU & the service later that weekend and I sang a song in english & one of the guys interpreted the meaning for me. A different day, I got to lead the morning devotional for the team. Yesterday, sunday morning I was asked to share with the church about some of my testimony. But that was only some of the things I did. I only went to help. The team did so much more. We went out to all these different universities and they talked to students about what they believe and their views of the world. They shared what they were doing here with ABU and invited people to the workshops & service we had on Saturday night. They led programs at diff churches and schools where they shared their testimonies, gave sermons, led worship. It was just amazing to be able to be a part of this and it just goes to show how amazing God is and how He answers prayers. I continue to pray for more opportunities like this and have actually been invited back to Dourados as well as other cities. :) God is good. His grace covers a multitude of sins and the filth that we are constantly struggling with or trekking through. And I praise Him for that LOVE daily :) What greater love than this - that a man should lay down his life for a friend... And for Christ to lay down His life for millions of people that can't really be called His friends? ... truly amazing...