I know that it has been a while since I last was able to update you. I finally have found the time to write down my thoughts about Peru.
Being able to go back to the land that is packed full of life and brimming over with excitement was overwhelming. The air is thick once you arrive and you are immersed suddenly in a sea of arms and faces. How amazing was it for me to be there? How good is God? I believe Him to be too good to me. I believe it to be far surpassing amazement that I was there. I don’t sometime understand why He allowed it all, but then I come to point that I know I don’t have to question it or be concerned. There would be times that I would be standing there in the midst of the people and I would be completely overtaken by the wonder of His glory. I would open my eyes and would see the lives, each one searching and yearning for love and acceptance. They were all so eager to lavish affection on you but the need for them to receive for surpassed. I have been touched in a way that I know will be branded in my heart forever. You can’t be among the people and walks the dirty streets and not be impacted.
There was so many opportunities to minister, it was like God had specifically hand picked each moment for every individual person. I watched as truth and love mingled together in the words that were spoken by my friends around me. Language is no barrier for love; love seeps through the cracks and crevices and flings open doors. I was witness to it happening around me every where we went. I would see people talking to each other, one a white American and the other a native Peruvian, with out hindrance of communication. Jesus became our words and reached beyond our wildest imaginations. You know that He tells us that is what He does, “Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.” He continued to amaze us over and over and over again. Just think about going to a school and being able to teach students there for the entire day! Imagine walking in to a conference center and hosting a 10 hour seminar for pastors (some that had traveled days just to be there). How about visiting a women’s prison that held drug addicts and criminals of many crimes? You visit all these places and you don’t come back from them the same. There is no way that you can distance yourself from the reality around you.
I want to leave you with a taste of Peru. There is no words to be able to describe all that happened while we were there. There are no pictures that can capture what we felt. I know that I can speak for the rest of the team when I say that we have been privileged to be in the presence of God. We deserve nothing and yet He opened the floodgates of Heaven and poured out His favor on us.
