I will rejoice! I said I will rejoice! Even through my trials and what ever the enemy brings my way, I will rejoice! This week has been a week of heavy spiritual warfare for me. There has been points where I have been crawling on the ground trying to find strength to pick myself up. But through it all I will rejoice because I serve a God that cares and no matter what His plans for my life will never change. He is faithful!
As I came upon the verse Psalm 31:7 it shows God's heart for His children but also how we should react when we are facing hard times in our lives, He cares! As I was thinking of His heart for His children the Lord reminded me of a dream He gave me a month ago where I was saving children out of slavery. Some of you may not know that children are sold in many 3rd world countries into child labor or sex slavery. India is one of the biggest child slavery countries in the world. Girls at the age of 5 are sold by their parents into sex slavery and boys into beggars. Most of these children don't ever make it to be adults because they are disposed of when they are of no use or some of the children are burned alive. There are 35 million orphaned children in India and most of those children live on the streets. Does that break your heart? because it breaks God's heart!
As the Lord reminded me of that dream of saving these children he also showed me what it meant to be in their place. It was such darkness that I have never felt before and a hopelessness... However, as the weeks passed by I forgot about that dream. Then today as I go to check my mail I see a book called "No longer a Slumdog." I have no idea who sent me this book. It was about horrible stories of children in India and what they go through everyday. I could not continue to read the book because I was sobbing so bad while reading it. It broke my heart into pieces. Then I heard the Lord say, "it's ok to cry because I am giving you my heart."
My plans for going to India were not to work with the orphaned children there but the Lord is clearly speaking to me and giving me His heart for the children there. He has woken up that passion I once had for orphaned children. The Lord sees his children hurting as it says, ...for you have seen my troubles, and you care about the anguish of my soul. The Lord cares for His children that are hurting. This little ones do't have a voice, but God has given me a voice to speak for these precious little ones. My heart has been moved to serve the children of India... Furthermore, as some of you know I started an orphanage ministry 7 years ago... It was my passion, but the enemy robbed that passion away and now the Lord has reminded me of it. Oh Lord you are so good to me! So here is to the start of a new journey!
I pray that you will be encouraged through this blog and that God will reveal more of His heart for His children. Thank you for reading
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