Out of the Ashes

This is what I was made for- there is more purpose in life than just living, than being happy, than just merely loving G*d.... Loving G*d means loving people and helping them to know truth. This is what I was made for.  As I sat and listened to the commands from an army base and the hums of chanting from the monastery echoing across the valley and mountains of Ladock, it sounded like a million voices. I wondered what the sound of a million believers prayers could do to the ruins and barren desert I stared at. I wondered about the hundred of faces I had seen and met that day that had never heard of the Father before. I wondered at my part in it all and I prayed for the Father to reveal himself to them. My spirit roared in intercession asking the Father to $ave them and for every stronghold of the enemy to be broken. This trek I was on wasn’t what I thought.   It was high altitude (12,000 ft.), but flatter ground than I usually hike to the local villages near my own home. I was

I had a chance to visit another country where LD work is being done last month.  It was a privilege to get to go and visit.  The rules that require me to leave the country every few months has always seemingly come at just the right time, allowing some time for refreshing and refocus.  While I was there I got the chance to visit some “family” from the States that live there and work there.  This family has truly become like sisters and brothers to me.  While we enjoyed a relaxing quick 4 day weekend, I had the chance to hear their struggles, see their lives, and realize the struggles we face in America, in India, in Europe, and in the Middle East, many of the them are the same.  At the end of the day there is an enemy that is trying to steal and kill and destroy, but at the end of the day there is a King that rules and reigns supreme. There is a hope in the Word He calls us to that remains.  The struggles may look different country to country, but the lies the enemy tries to speak as