One of the coolest things I experienced yesterday was working with a couple of women who don't know Jesus. This is Fatima. She was so excited after getting her glasses that she held my face and said that she would remember me every time she wore them. She eagerly accepted my offer to pray for her. Sagar had told me a couple of days ago that I can pray whatever I want because they are on the church property, but I couldn't stick the Bible verse in her glasses case. And since he doesn't usually interpret my prayers I was at complete liberty to just pray all over this sweet girl. I prayed that it would not be my face that she remembered but the love of Christ shining through. I prayed that she would always be drawn back to BCH until the day she realized that it was Jesus calling her to Him. And I'm able to ask all of those things in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ. After we prayed and she'd kissed me a few more times, I took this picture to remember her face.

I also had a Hindu girl ask me yesterday to pray for her salvation. That one totally threw me because of course I wanted to just go ahead and shove her down the Roman Road, but clearly she wasn't ready to accept Jesus. She just had a friend praying that she would come to Christ, so she was basically a seeker, looking for the truth. I felt totally liberty to pray all over her as well. I pray that I will see her again one day!

My favorite part of this trip, hands down, is having the chance to pray with these people. There is a freedom in prayer that comes when basically the only thing you know about the person before you is that God loves them and wants them for his own. All the rest of it is temporal and I do pray that He supplies their needs. But most of all, I pray that even as the glasses are bringing them advanced physical sight, that He would open wide their spiritual eyes and they would be overwhelmed with His truth.

The odds are so stacked against the great work this church is doing. Fortunately, God is completely unimpacted by a roll of the dice.

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33

Please pray for strength today after a mostly sleepless night. Still can't find my voice. But hopefully that just means Jesus will be heard better with me out of the way.