Luke 10 for 10 days. The Bible tells us to go heal the sick and share that the Kingdom of God is near. We are to go with peace, but without money. We went from Cancun to Guatemala. I would urge you to look at a map and see it for yourselves.
I learned a lot in the past 10 days, through broken Spanish, since no one in the team could speak it, hitchhiking and giving your biggest smile so cars would stop, no food for a few days, dehydration, enjoying the scourging heat at the back of a Bakkie, also the fun team times on the back sitting close together under one sleeping bag not to freeze from the rain, sleeping in a jungle with sounds of flesh eating beasts (maybe it was just scary monkeys), but also meeting our lifts, doing bible studies next to the road, staying in a hotel, praying for people, coming to people we've never met in the middle of the night who has food ready for us because God told them we would be coming, praying for children at a hospital and seeing them healed by God, getting picked up at the boarder by a man called Mario because God told him to and being welcomed and taken care of.
This was all great, but who I got to know the most was God, our King, but also our Father. IHOP wrote on 16 June 2016: Father is not a symbolic name for God, it is the nature of His heart. He is a father, acts like a father, and has emotions like a father.
It's really sad that the experiences we had the past 10 days would be described as unreal or unbelievable, because stepping out in faith is what God asks of us:
Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
Luke 10:2-3
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 1:22
There is so many things to tell about what God did, but sharing only one at least:
We received money of 2 seperate people on our journey. Then God asked us to give it away. The first 30 seconds after we confirmed that that was what God was telling us, I had a bit of a shock period. We had no money and so two people felt on their hearts to give it to us and now God told us to give OUR money away! Then I realised again I had to take that step out of my comfort zone and of obedience. I had so many plans for that money, mainly to get over the boarder or to buy water, or to get us a place to stay. God told me: I've got it, I've got it, I've got it! Trust me to have it, because I will. We never needed money. God provided all the way.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7 KJV