Every Nation, Every Soul

Jesus seeks and chases after lost hearts. One of my favorite verses in Isaiah says, "The Lord must wait for you to come to Him so He can show you His love and compassion. For The Lord is a faithful God. Blessed are those who wait for His help." I certainly do not deserve to be waited on, and yet my Father waits for me! If you're reading this, stop and thank Jesus that His desire is to show you mercy. Even when our hearts seem like Israel, The Lord will chase after, pursue and convict until He has consumed every part. Israel constantly turned away from their Savior, chasing after "every other lover", bowing before their idols. All the while The Lord longed to lead away and speak so tenderly, to restore and forgive. Oh Jesus, let us not be like Israel in their return to hurting You, instead increase our fear of You. Set us on fire for You, refine the parts of our heart that need refining. Jesus, come and consume me. Let this be your prayer everyday. Allow Jesus to speak sweetly to your heart, He will always remind you of how in love with you He is! Please help me pray this over Cambodia, until there is not one wondering soul.
Cambodia is filled with gentle people that have deep set, dark eyes full of mystery. I am living in the hottest, hardest, most genuinely beautiful place. There is a heaviness here that is hard to explain. There is also a huge spirit of confusion all over the nation. It's very easy to become apathetic. The enemy loves to attack in ways that cause disunity. Each morning,The Lord lavishes His grace on me, and it is more than enough to get me through. Pieces of my character that aren't so much like Jesus, are changing to be more like His. I am blessed to be working with a ministry called, "Women at Risk." The ministry has just recently started. We are working towards raising money to build a safe house here in Cambodia for all the women who are broken from trafficking. We are going into the karaoke bars, getting the women out, speaking truth over them and allowing The Lord to finally release them. The Lord gave the vision of this safe house to a lovely Cambodian lady named Sinut. It is amazing to work alongside ladies whose hearts are similar to mine in seeing women released from shame and given the freedom of The Lord. I love to ask them questions, I hope to gain their wisdom. I work with street kids through a ministry here called, "Transform Asia." Each Friday morning, my outreach team and I get in a big tuk tuk, pick up the children, feed them, smother them in hugs and love, then bathe and dress them. The only adequate way I can describe working in these ministries is that my heart always breaks and Jesus always picks it up and puts it back together again. He sows in patches of tenderness until my heart is bigger than it was before it was broken.
During the weekdays at five, I teach English at the youth development center at the YWAM base where I am staying. I have a class of about thirty five students, ranging from ages thirteen to thirty. Can I just say The Lord has provided in such miraculous ways! Each day a class full of almost all unbelievers come to me and listen. I get to build relationships with my students outside of class, we find fun ways to connect with each other in Cambodia. They spoil me and make me feel important in ways I would never expect. I love on them and the end result is discipleship. I love discipling! You know how sometimes you can just look at a person and love them, having no reason why and not really even know them? That is exactly how I feel about every person here, especially the people I have gotten the chance to know and love on. I have never felt as privileged as I do right now. I need your prayers, please help me pray for this nation. I can see The Lord placing a banner of freedom over all of Cambodia. I know The Lord is longing to give the Cambodians freedom from idol worship, freedom from the lies of the enemy and freedom from every spiritual stronghold. Just like Israel, Cambodia is chosen.