Miracles, Divine appointments & James

Miracles, Divine appointments & James This post was written partially while riding the midnight train (until my battery died) and finished upon arrival to Franceville/Normandy, at which times I did not have access to the web.

It’s well after midnight and we are currently traveling by train to Franceville/Normandy, France. I was trying to sleep but God has my mind on some of the events of the day and I had to write them down. The entire group has been looking forward to this day, as we will be getting away from the stress of life in the Paris fast lane. Not only is the pace of life in Paris fast, the city is big the streets are never ending and by no means straight. For the novice user the Metro is no less easy to navigate than the streets. So we are all looking forward to getting to a part of France where life is a little slower. We look forward to this so that we can concentrate on the purpose we came here for, Ministry to the French. The problem with this is that Paris is a part of France as well, but the stress of the city has really kept us from concentrating on the task that God has sent us here to accomplish. All of the wrong turns the getting separated on the trains and the general frustrations of trying to move a group of 17 people quickly through the streets and rail systems has really allowed Satan to take our focus from us. We had a reminder of that once again tonight as we were trying to make our midnight train connection. As I said in the title, today was a day of Miracles, Divine appointments and James. Lets talk a bit about Divine appointments. We were privileged to be a part of the Dedication service of a new Church in Paris, Bible Baptist Church (in English, I apologize I do not know the French name). It was an honor to see well over 70 French believers and non-believers alike attending the dedication services. During the morning service Pastor Bodzzie was able to bring 2 non-believers into the family of Christ and our girls were a part of that today. I think that there was also 1 more new believer as a result of the evening service as well. God is definitely at work in Paris. After the service we were able to take a trip to the top of the Eiffel Tower, wow what a view. After the tower we were on our way to find some dinner and then to find our train, but God had other plans for us as well as more divine appointments that we were not expecting. I don’t want to go into a lot of details, as I want your girls to be able to share this story with you in their own words. Let me just say that the next miracle was a lost piece of luggage. We could have easily allowed Satan to get into our hearts and minds but we didn’t we filled our hearts with prayers and supplications to our Lord and He answered our prayers and brought to us not only the lost luggage, he also brought to us James (not his real name, just the name the girls gave him). I will only say that I believe that God wanted us to lose this luggage so that we would meet James. Pray that James will meet our Jesus. Also please pray for our team that we can face the adversity that Satan throws in our way not with frustrations and grumbling, but with prayers and supplications to our Lord. The opposite of this is exactly what Satan wants, as Leah Kelly’s mom has reminded us, we need to be encouraged when Satan is causing us problems and praise God for these problems. For when Satan is attacking us the most you can be sure that if you are looking for what God is trying to show you it will be worth all the frustrations Satan can throw at you. For our God is great and mighty God whose power no one can match, not even Satan!

Thank you for your continual prayers on the team’s behalf,

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P.S. We are in Franceville/Normandy now and will be until Thursday. I hope to have access to the web each day and I will post some photos as soon as I can tomorrow.