These past two weeks had their fair share of ups and downs.  This past week I had this crazy stomach flu that is passing around campus.  So I didn't get a chance to do much which was a bummer but in a way if I'm gonna get this bug I'm glad I got it now instead of when I am about to leave the country.   The week before we had a speaker from Bethel Church in Redding, CA.  He so inspired me to step out in boldness and pray for others.  He told many testimonies of people getting healed and it got me excited to pray for sick people. 

I have been thinking a lot of what God wants to do in our outreach team.  As I prepare to be in another country for 2 months, I am really sobered about what is going on in these places and I am taking time to pray and seek God for wisdom and clear thinking while I am there.  I'm excited about my team, it is mostly women and precious people.  I am praying for us to have unity which is a big weapon against darkness.  I can't wait to serve and love people.  I want to put so much more on here but I can't for safety.  Please pray for us as there is a lot going on and pray that I would be totally clear minded and hear the voice of God clearly. 

God is so good and faithful.  He loves us so well.  I am feeling so much delight from God.  I lead worship again for class this past friday and just was reminded of how Jesus paid it all by dying on the cross for me and all of us.  I was brought to tears as I sang the hymn:

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm

What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless Babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
 
Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again

And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From a life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny

No power of hell, no scheme of man
Could ever pluck me from His hand
Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I stand


I just love that song.  I pray that God touches you with the truth of the cross today.  That you would know the breadth, the length, the height, and the depth of God's love for you.