Faith as small as a mustard seed

I now have just over 6 weeks left, time is going fast!

Volunteering and working this week has been good, it’s gone very fast, in a good way. I’ve been doing the usual, worked with Ham on Monday which was a short day because we didn’t have much to do so I helped in the kitchen again with making chocolates then for the rest of the day I looked after their son Zac.

On Tuesday I only had half a day in the office as I went to Happy Valley with my Nan (Beryl). It is a home where homeless people stay while they try and get back on their feet and look for jobs. A few people from church go there every few months to talk, encourage and pray with the ladies and normally bring them food. This time it was Nanny’s turn so I tagged along just to see what it was like and it was heartbreaking. We went into one of the ladies dorms, where it had about 10 beds in one room, it was dirty and smelly. Most of the ladies I saw looked down and out, it was like as you walked in you could feel it. I was surprised though that some of the ladies had their bibles ready, it still amazes how people who don’t have a home or job and are really down still have their bibles and still have some faith in God, I’d like to think I would be the same. At the end they seemed so pleased and Thankful, it was heart warming. (You can see pictures on Facebook)

‘The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit’ Psalm 34: 17-18

I’ve also finally started to review the Links International website which I have been preparing for awhile now. I thought it was going to be hard but it’s been fine so far and I’m nearly finished.

Me, Nan and Granddad are also preparing for our trip to Zimbabwe, we leave on Monday VERY early in the morning and I’m really excited! We’re going to Lower Gweru to stay with a family who are friends of Connections church leader Ham. It will be out of the town nearer the bush and apparently they have a lot of animals like goats, chickens and rabbits, I love those sorts of environments! It’ll be a lot different to Nan and Granddads house but I don’t mind, I’ve been out in the bush in Uganda and it was a great experience so I’m sure this will be too. Nan and Granddad are going to be doing some teaching and we don’t know yet what I will do, hopefully there will be something but I’m laid back, I said I can just play with the kids and be the photographer.

I’ve never felt God so powerful before, I’m still so overwhelmed and this week God has put the broken hearted on my heart. There’s so much hurt and pain in the world we live in and a lot of the time people say ‘Where was God!?’ and then they lose faith. I’ve been praying for them that God will show himself to them the way he has been showing himself to me.

I have been in the same situation and I ended up being angry with God asking him why he let me get in the situation. In the end I realised a lot of it was my own fault. It’s easy to blame God, push him away and to forget about him in our troubles, I made matters worse by doing so.

The truth is God is always there, he never leaves us because he is a loyal and faithful God.

‘When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you. Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand’ Psalm 73: 21-23

I wrote a blog a few weeks ago called ‘Sow in tears, Reap in joy’, it relates a lot to this blog. Sow in tears for me means; working for God and praying to God in our pain and hurt. Reap in joy for me means; we will succeed and grow in joy.

I’ve sown in tears and in the end I reaped in joy. God always pulls through if you let him and ask him to. He is the most POWERFUL, loyal, LOVING thing living and anything is possible through God!

‘For I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed you can say to this mountain move from here to there and it will move! Nothing will be impossible for you!’ Matthew 17:20

(I cannot wait for the day when)          

‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” Revelations 21:3-4