CHINA KAT

We just got finished with an amazing seeker’s group.  It is hard to describe how I feel right now-I am just overflowing.  These people are so special to me-I feel so connected to them and am thankful for each one of them. It feels like family.  I LOVE being on this journey with them and am SO grateful God has given us this opportunity at this time to be a part of what He is doing.  The Spirit is truly moving, and it is amazing.  I really love these wonderful people and pray their hearts continue to search for God’s amazing transformation.  The relationships that are forming and the discussions that are taking place are such a blessing.  Sometimes it is hard to imagine I am getting to do this.  It is something I have prayed for a long time, and now it is beyond anything I can express.  There is nothing quite as special as walking with someone as they learn about the incredible message of Jesus with His unfathomable love and grace.  Each time I speak His Good News it seems more incredible and means more.  Simple, yet absolutely and astoundingly beautiful.  We were reading one of my favorite passages tonight in Romans 5, which I feel is really at the core of the Gospel…

God, in His GREAT love…

sent Jesus.

For me.  For YOU.  For EVERY one.

For ALL time.

ONE sacrifice.

Awesome LOVE.  Amazing GRACE.

We REJOICE in that we are now His friends. His children…

ALIVE in Him.  Assured of salvation.  Given a new life.

It truly is unfathomable.  The most incredible message of all time…and we have been commissioned with it!! That is even more amazing. I pray that I can always be so bold to spread it wherever I am.  I know I have not always been. His message is for everyone, everywhere for all time…we are missionaries wherever we go because we KNOW His amazing plan of salvation for all mankind, and because God has entrusted us with the task of taking it to the world.  We have been transformed by His great love, grace, and mercy.  How can we not shout it from the mountaintops? How can we keep from praising His name?! Everyone needs the opportunity to hear THE Good News-will we be the ones to share it?

I am humbled and grateful our Father has asked us to be His hands and feet to His children.  I am grateful He led me to China and for each and every person He has brought into my life since being here. It feels like home because of them. I feel so full and blessed, in ways I could not have imagine nor could explain. I feel like I am getting more out of this experience than they are, though I truly pray their lives and hearts will be transformed by our Father-He has the power and is clearly moving in their lives.  I pray He is moving in yours, too.  What a mighty God we serve!!

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ~Romans 5:8