The Power Of The Holy Spirit

By this time in less than two weeks, my mom and I will be in the air. On our first of three flights to Taiwan.

I’m so excited to be experiencing the Holy Spirit like I have never before experienced. God is so good; He led me to go through the study “Remembering The Forgotten God”, which I just finished today. He knew I needed to rely on the Spirit and not my own strength for this trip.

My prayer for this trip is that Christ will shine through my mom and me, that we will be transparent and He will be the one who is seen- not by our abilities but by Christ’s. I also pray this in our lives. It’s so hard to not rely on my own abilities and to trust God’s hand. As a Christian my life needs to be different, the Holy Spirit gives us supernatural abilities to work for him if we let it.

Here is an excerpt from the study book “Remembering The Forgotten God.”

“The Spirit wants to transform us, patiently but steadily, into people who transform our corners of the world……We won’t be transformed by simply trying harder. Grunting and saying through clenched teeth, ‘I will be patient!’ hasn’t worked yet, and that isn’t likely to change. But what does effect change is when we begin to ask God to make these fruit manifest in our lives by the power of His Spirit and when we spend time in communion with our God. Remember, its never been about you doing it on your own, It’s about the power of the Spirit in your life.”

That passage from the study guide really spoke to me. I have to be willing to let Christ do His work in me.  I am so excited for this trip because I know Christ is going to do amazing things, things that will only be understood through knowing it was Him who did them.

As this is my prayer for this trip and also my life I’d like to challenge you. Are you living your life through Christ and letting His spirit take over?

 We continue to ask for prayer for our journey, we are told by the orphanage contact that this will be the hardest thing we have ever done. What a great time to let the Holy Spirit take over.

1 Corinthians 2: 1-5

“And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about god. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.  I came to you in weakness and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.”

When I, Kimberly, woke up this morning at four AM, I figured I would just go right back to sleep. But I guess God had other plans. I turned on my phone and out of the corner of my eye I saw the date, May. And it hit me. In one month I will be leaving for a whole month. 

It has all sort of felt surreal up to this point.
I'm so thankful The Lord has given my mom and I this opportunity.

When I was three years old I watched the movie Annie. I instantly wanted an orphanage but would often tell my mom I would not be like Miss Hannigan.  Who knew almost 18 years later my desire of wanting to work with orphans would be fulfilled. 

I am praying that we will be filled with the Holy spirit while we are there and we will always have servant's hearts. Screaming babies and lack of sleep will get to us but then I'm  sure when we are feeding and rocking those little ones, my heart will melt and when the month of June is over I feel I will be leaving a piece of it there.  I've started praying that we will show our light for Christ to every person we encounter on this trip, even though we might not be able to communicate with words. 

I know Taiwan will be a little bit of a culture shock.  Okay.... Maybe a lot. Totally different food, a different language I won't be able to understand, and a very different life style than what my summer days are used to. We will be out of our comfort zone in many ways and I know the Lord wants us to fill that way.

Friends and family, thank you so much for the support. At the beginning my mom and I prayed that the Lord's will be done and He  supplied our needs.  We have come to tears with the generosity of those who have given. 
We are so humbled and continue to ask for prayer as our journey fasfly approaches. 

 I anticipate the month of June to be so life changing and am really looking forward to it. 

Psalm 100:1-5
"Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship the Lord with gladness;
come before Him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God.
It is He who made us, and we are His;
we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving
and His courts with praise
give thanks to Him and praise His name.
For the Lord is good. His love endures forever;
His faithfulness continues through all generations. "