The passage in Numbers 10:33-36, speaking of the Israelites leaving Mt. Sinai and moving the "Ark" really spoke to my heart as I am reading through the Bible each morning.
The work of mobilizing the great potential that sits in our churches each Sunday was a great challenge to say the least. But it was not the specific work God called us to do here in Galati. While in the states, we traveled over 22000 miles by car, visited ten states, took five classes over the internet, spoke in over twenty churches. The country itself sort of bookended our trip as we started by leaving our oldest son Matthew, at Liberty Universtiy in Virginia and ended up in Highland, California being appointed as associate missionaries with the International Mission Board. God went before us just as he did for Israel, I feel like the Lord did, “hover over us” and He showed us where to "stop and rest." Now that we are “set back down” , we as Moses would pray, “Return O Lord, to the countless thousands of Israel (Galati)!” (not that he ever left them....) I pray the Lord will help us pick of the “ark” and move into this city and pray that He would use us, the SBC teams from America and the Romanian believers, “to scatter the enemies” of these precious peoples souls.
After reading this passage yesterday I went into the land of the giants and began to explore and pray again. Yes! There were giants….but my faith was renewed slightly. We have a great desire to follow the Lord’s leading and work towards our goal of planting an Evangelical church in Zone 9 by 2009; This, while at the same time strengthening the group of believers in Zone 6 in the valley.
