...where Africa, meets India meets Amerindian culture, where anacondas and jaguars lure in the thick jungle and cashews, papayas and sugar cane grow in abundance.
It's here in the small town of Timehri where we got to feast on traditional food like coconut rice, plantain chips and chicken curry roti and hear radical and inspiring testimonies of Hindu's converting to Christianity after God spoke to them audibly or through vivid dreams.
Pastor Deo is a multitalented and wise pastor who took us on all our adventures through Guyana in his old school bus. On one of our excursions we visited a home for abused little girls deep in the jungle. We got to spend time with them and invest in their lives through singing songs, baking cookies and drawing prophetic pictures to give them hope of how God sees their future.
As a team we also had the opportunity to testify at local churches and to the Bible school students about God's blessings in our team's travel, food and finances since the start of our journey. All the glory to Him!
Throughout our time in Guyana, as we where lying in our hammocks, swimming in coca cola water with jungle kids or just being alone with God under our mosquito nets, He was working in each of our hearts individually to bring renewal in areas of our lives where we still need to trust Him more.
We were dealing with question's like, "Who is Jesus really to me irrespective of circumstances and people?" and "What areas of my life am I holding on to with my own power and not surrendering to Him who is totally able to do more than I can ever think or imagine!"
These kind of questions are difficult to answer and even more difficult to live by, but so necessary to work through in order to live the life of abundance God has in store for us.
And like the tropical rain that gave our washing on the line four to five rinses before it was dry and we where able to take it off the line, God will keep working in our hearts to renew our minds and shape us into who He intended us to be before the beginning of creation.
Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6 NIV)
Thank you Jesus for renewal of our hearts and minds!