Thirsty. That is how I would describe my physical experience as I live and work in the 100+ degree days we have had in this concrete jungle I call home. Even more then the heat radiating from the subway though, is the longing that has come from the parched hearts of the students that came with me to New York and that I finds I encounter people on campus.
I will write more in the morning, but please be in prayer. There are walls constructed from years of abuse, sin, rejection, and manipulation of truth. I see it in the faces of the girls I disciple and in those of the friendships we have been building at Laguardia Community College. The words on my heart for the summer are freedom and transformation. My roommates anxious talk frequently about how feel we are going to battle for our students hearts to be enlivened with the truth of the gospel.
If you received a student to pray for, and even if you didn't please pray. Pray for "Zane", Sam, Jimmy, and Richa. They are students from Laguardia that we talked about the gospel with today. Zane and Sam are muslim, from a middle eastern country but raised around the world as children of diplomats. Jimmy was raised Jehovah's Witness but now believes he will have to live on the street after his family kicked him out when he announced his gay lifestyle. And Richa is Hindu. She and her family moved to the US when she was young. each of them thirsty for different but similar things. Zane asked about Jesus today. He told me, "i have a right to knowledge. To hear and be able to decide for myself. Please tell me, who is Jesus. How can he be God and the Son of God?" He told us he has been waking up restless, unable to sleep because he wonders if what he knows and believes about life and Islam are true. Please pray with me as we meet again to continue to discuss and give him the Bible he asked for.
Wow...God is at work!
Please pray for tmj that has put me on a soft food diet and kept me awake and in pain at night. Pray for strength, boldness and wisdom as I keep having hard conversations. Pray that I would continue to hear God speak truth into the crusty places in my heart.
Lord, may you fill up the empty places in the hearts of my friends and people in the world. May they see you as the one they are thirsting for.
Blessings,
Abigail
"These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth..." ~ Hebrews 11:13
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