Tailor made Sunday sermon

Do you ever have those days at church when you think, “Did God design this entire message just for me?” Today was one of those days… It was gray and rainy this morning and I have just gotten over the fact that you have to drive your motorbike in it – it’s not that bad. So I had my black sundress on and flip flops so the dirty water could just run off my legs – with my blue raincoat on and then all of my belongings from staying at Kelly’s the night before in my Land’s End tote, or plastic bags in my basket. I walked in with a peace in my heart and sat in a row alone… but I know it won’t be like that forever.

We have been working though John and are on Chapter 10, which is about Life and living it to its fullest. I have came back to this verse over and over again and AM convinced that following the Lord is where life really is. The pastor started talking about how we want to fill our life with adventure and love and all of the good things in life, he desires to give us life to the full.

Then he goes to Deuteronomy Chapter 30 – and this chapter is one that I remember the Lord speaking to me through right before coming to Thailand. I have written in the margins of my bible next to this chapter “I need to follow YOU to my dreams.” And that is exactly what he is doing in my life. I just had to sit there and smile and be at rest in his perfect plans, timing and road that he has me on. That my only job is to love the Lord – that is it. And he is the ultimate dream giver if we just walk in his will.

We then stood up to sing and I felt like the Lord pulled out all of my favorites: Blessed be your name, Indescribable and “Jesus name above all names, beautiful savior, glorious Lord…” which was a song my mom would sing to me before I went to bed when I was little. Then the last song they sang was “Glory, Glory Halleluiah He Reigns,” The song that talks about the believers all over the world and how the people are singing underground and about the Asian Believers filled with God’s holy fire. I am not usually a crier in church, but today I just cried because I felt so loved. This was the song they sang the Sunday at Church in Bloomington in September 2006 – the day I heard the Lord telling me to GO.

I stood there in joyful praise that I heard him call, and here I am over a year later standing where he called me to go, surrounded by Asian believers. And then as the song goes and talks about believers all over the world – the Lord showed me all the faces of the kids in my class, and that they are from all over the world, and I have had the opportunity to share Jesus’ love with all of these kids that are going to go out to the sides of the world.

The Lord wasn’t kidding when he said that he has come to give life to the full…