So I believe you have read our Hidden world blog on our first week of travels. This was definitely not how you would start a journey - hitch hiking to Paraguay because you do not have enough money. But God provide to each of us in the way we needed and there is definitely a plan with our first week being so challenging regarding finances.
So we made it to Santiago, Chile, in one peace, very excited to do our first
ministry. Immediately the church embraced us, loved us and blessed us. So for me only one word describes Chile - OVERWHELMED. It started by God fulfilling His promises He gave me before. Two years ago I traveled through Chile for the first time and fell in love with the people with the dream of one day going back. A few weeks later God gave me a vision of Chile and how the fire (Gods word, truth and love) will start spreading through the whole of Chile with the starting point being Santiago. With this in my heart I just wanted to go back, but doubted that I will ever. Then God gave me a promise last year (June) about going back to the countries (Chile, New Zealand and Guatemala) I have been praying for, again not thinking it will happen so soon. So with these promises in my heart I was excited for Chile.
As the church welcomed us at the airport God immediately started to overwhelm me with the fulfillment of His word and I burst out in tears when I saw the people again, especially the pastor and his family. The pastor immediately said that our time in Chile will be a time of rest and not a lot of ministry. So we only had 3 church meetings/gatherings a week that we had the opportunity to share how God provide the week before and to encourage the church.
At every meeting we had, God will just overwhelm me with His presence, His word and His prophetic word for His people. We had a lot of prophetic word for the congregation and saw
it come in to being while still being there. I also spent a lot of time with the pastor and his character overwhelmed me, his shepherd heart (caring an loving people) was great and he had that towards me and the team since day one without really knowing us. This part of his character is a gift from God and he is walking in that. In August we will be in Brazil and they will join us there again. So that made saying goodbye much easier!
So we had a blessed time in Chile and could save a lot of money. This helped us in travelling to Peru, but we are still sort on money. We are a group of 10 people and only 2 people has enough money for Peru and the rest of the countries we will be visiting. We have been praying a lot for this matter and
trust that God will still provide the rest of the money we need. God has just been saying, "Hold on to My promises." Please do pray with us for this!
So I want to leave you with this, "Hold on to the promises God has given to you, He is faithful to His word!!"
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