The Search

Well, since our last post we have been doing a lot of the same things. Walking the streets, looking for buildings, apartments, and houses, taking down information, and then making calls to set up appointments. We are really trying to press in hard to find out where God wants us and when we are going to get what He has for us. We have also been hosting the WISE school outreach, so they have been helping us intercede for our area and get spiritual direction. One day we went with them into Colonia Centro, went to the points of it, declared passages of Scripture over it, and then went to the center of the colonia to pray and do evangelism. We have also been praying as YWAM CMC staff about where He wants us and praying for Him to bring us into the promised land. As we were praying yesterday we heard the Lord say that the place He has for us is within the places we have already seen. But He also said that we need to keep looking for a building. It's really a case of "already but not yet." We believe that our situation is similar to that of the Israelites when they crossed the Jordan to go into the Promised Land. When they first got in, the lived in tents until they inherited the whole land. We realized that the Lord is calling us to live in an apartment until He prepares a larger place for us and gives us the building. So we are going out today with 4 different meetings for apartments to see what the Lord has for us. We believe we are going to be moving into our promised land very soon.

On another note, this last week has been very exciting for me because I have been spending more time in the city apart from the group and have been meeting more people. In one instance I was left behind by my group and I met a new friend in a metro station. In another, I met a new friend named Lalo who is from the city at a meeting we had who took me to a street of music stores and then we had lunch together and talked about our hearts for the city. Also, I went to a concert with a friend of mine from the city where he and some of his other friends were playing. All of these encounters have really helped me to feel more at home in this city. I feel like God is bringing me into a time of putting roots down here.