We began our day at Iglesias Christiana Pentecostes for two teaching sessions. MJP first taught on prayer and then on salvation.
The message of salvation is a beautiful one. The word salvation in the Scriptures is a present-continuous tense. In other words: I am saved and I am being saved. Or, my spirit is saved and my mind/will/emotions through the renewal (recreation) of them is being saved.
We are saved from, to and for. Saved from sickness, to healing, for making His name great. Saved from bondage, to freedom, for making His name great. (These are just two of the thirteen elements contained within salvation.)
That is why we do what we do. We have a testimony. And you can’t keep a testimony quiet.
The music was loud. I mean blow your hair back loud. Those folks like their praise and worship music! In nearly every pewback was a hymnal, Bible and a tambourine. During the music, they were all going full-bore. It was fun to sing Jon Egan’s song “I Am Free” in both English and Spanish. They would sing the songs through once in Spanish, then in English, and then would randomly alternate languages. It was fascinating. And loud.
We then had lunch with the church. A wonderful brisket, rice and beans.
Back to the hotel for rest.
A long chat about ministry, God’s provision, discernment, etc with MJP.
Then dinner. During which we leared of the news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed.
I’ve been watching the reactions on Facebook and Twitter as well as CNN, Fox News, BBC, and Al Jazeera. It is such an interesting mix of emotion.
My take is:
It is important to remember that as we go through the next few days, the Bible is clear in its commands to NOT rejoice at the judgement of the evil. We should never gloat. We should remain diligent in our devotion to God and His service which includes blessing those who curse us.
Tomorrow, we head south into Mexico. We’ll cross the border around 12pm. We will drive apporximately 4 hours into Chihuahua and will spend the night at a Mennonite camp just past halfway to Huapoca. On Tuesday we will finish the drive.
I don’t know what the frequency of my ability to post will be. I will continue to write blogs each night and will post them when I have WiFi connectivity (which could be as late as 5/2 or 3). If we have opportunity to talk with the kids this week, I will have dkfields post brief status updates here.
Please pray for safety, health, easy flow with translators, discernment, and direction as we go through the next two weeks.
Finally, pray that God will use this time to show us as a family what we do after Mexico, and that we will keep our eyes and ears open and keep pressing into Him for direction.
Many blessings to you! Pray for us.
(eksimants and cesimants, I love you! Keep being good for Nana and Papa!)