Trust In Him and He Will Do This

( This picture is us hanging out in the Kitchen one afternoon, playing scrabble, while I tryed to wipe up some cookies, with Egyptian ingredients. The cookies actually turned out pretty good too.)

This last week was a really encouraging week for me. We had a couple from France staying with us who I really connected with. They are really into the Arts, and they do filming, music concerts with professional artists, etc. So almost every morning of this last week, I was able to talk with Marj over breakfast. We had some really good discussions on things like prophecy and spiritual warfare. We were able to bounce some idea's off each other, and challange each other with these idea's about each subject. We also were able to share our testomonies with each other. Marj has an incredible testomony of brokeness, but she kept trusting God through that brokeness, and he has blessed her by giving her the desires of her heart. I was really able to connect with her story. Trusting God is something I am really learning, especially with my fears. I was thinking about some of the conversations we had, and one of the questions she asked me was, how is God challanging you, and what do you think he is revealing to you while you are here in Egypt? I didn't have an answer for her right aways, but I realized that God is revealing something to me. While I've been here I've been having what I call creative downloads, and have been stretched to use these, and come up with skits or drimes (drama/mimes) we can use while we are here. This has been something I've had a fear of doing back at home. God has now put me in a place where my team needs me to use this ablilty, but also in a place where it is alright if I fail, because the people here will accept anything you bring whole heartedly. So it doesn't matter if it's good enough, because there is no expectation. God is so full of grace. He is allowing me to grow in this creative area, in a place where I can relax into this ability, but also with enough pressure so that I'll actually start to use it. At the end of the week we had a neat opportunity to go to a house church. The space we had was very minimal, so we weren't able to do our normal drama. We decided that we would do one of the drama's I wrote. I'm not going to lie, I was a little nervous about doing it. I really wanted it to be recieved well. The drama is done to the scripture John 15:1-8 from the section called "The Vine and the Branches". It's about being connected to our heavenly Father so we may bear his fruit, and if we aren't connected to him we can do nothing. So I prayed, and submitted this drama into God's hands, and trusted that he would use it for his glory. Still God wanted me to trust him more. I was also supposed to give my testimony that night. I had prepared something, and I had brought along my notes, but a few minutes before I was supposed to share I really felt God asking me to trust him. I felt him asking me to put my notes behind me, and trust that he would give me the words for my testimony. So I did, and I feel that God really did use my words. I connected my testimony to John 15:1-8, so it tied in with the drama. The drama was also received very well. They told me afterwards, the drama made the words of the scriptures come alive, and really touched their hearts. Then something really neat was asked of me. They wanted to see me dance! In Egypt dance is not something that is done in church, especially by a women. So I danced for them, in the little space that I had, and was blessed by God. Just like Marj kept trusting Him through her brokeness, and was given the desires of her heart, in this little way of trusting God he gave me one of the desires of my heart. Dancing for him, to bless people, and bring them into worship. That is a tidbit of how God has been teaching me this week.

As for the team we are finding that prayer seems to be what we are doing most here. Before we came to Eygpt, our team was prophecied over to be a team of prayer and intercession. We are finding this to be very true. Prayer is something that blasts through any language barrier, even if we are praying with people who only speak or pray in arabic. Our times as a team praying are also unifying our team immensly. God is teaching us how to pray, and is giving us a heart for prayer aswell. Thank- you so much for all your prayers. They are very powerful, and are felt very much over here in Egypt. Have a wonderful Easter!

(our two chawches in there new suits they got for an incredible deal)
(Kissing our new sweet heart at El Borgs restaraunt who makes the best fish I've ever tasted)