Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head,
Coming down upon the beard,
Even Aaron's beard,
Coming down upon the edge of his robes. It is like the dew of Hermon
Coming down upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the LORD commanded the blessing-life forever. (Psalm 133:1-3 NASB)
I'm here with my team and it's so amazing. We went out dinner tonight for "the Last American Supper", just the six of us. And as I'm looking back at sitting there listening and talking to everyone, I'm in awe at God. His choosing of this team to South Africa I'm again in awe. Each one of us brings something to the table. Although we are all different, we all are one. We are slowly and surely becoming a family.
It was interesting tonight our dinner topic...spiritual warfare. The six of us discussed spiritual warfare for 30 minutes over our meals(Buffalo Wild Wings), where most teenagers would be discussing the latest news. We all have the same passion, to praise the Lord with our work, to bring Glory to his name. And as we talked about today over dessert it's not about us. And it's hard to remeber that. As you pray for me and this team and discuss it with other people, please don't make it EVER about us and what "we are doing". Pray that we will stay as one team, in unity. That we will remember who we are really serving.
Spiritual warfare has been so prevelant, two visa's barely came in the last one yesterday. Which we were told had never happened before. Mind Games, even as we were talking and some of us were sharing about amazing things we have come in contact with tonight, I was sitting there thinking "Wow I must not be that great of christian because that didn't happen to me". And then I realized how many mind games this week Satan had been using on me because I felt inadequate to everyonee.
As we are embarking on our journey tomorrow pray for us, That we never loose focus of why we are here and the big picture, that we challenge one another in our walk with Christ, we stay strong, and we keep being a family that we are slowly becoming. We are goof balls in our own ways, we laugh sometimes so hard some of us cry. And there will be times in the furture that we will cry for one another. Again this team is such a blessing, God is all over this. I have never been around so many people my age at once that are seriously constantly going "Okay guys we need to remember to keep each other accountable" or "Why don't we have our own team devotions and memorize verses as well". I'm so excited to see what God is going to let us do in this little place in Northern South Africa.
Love everyone back home, thank you for your many prayers. I will only have wifi twice a week and these next two weeks we are going camping. Our plane flys out tomorrow at 2:00 pm and we will get in Johannesburg at 5:45...
Haili
