india: the sea of grace

It's been a while. I've been back from India for a week now, and I've had limited access to the Internet. Hence, my blog has been lacking, but man, the testimony of what God did in India in and through me will take multiple posts. Plus, I haven't even processed all he did. However, for the first of the many blog posts, I want to describe how he threw me into a sea of grace, so much grace. There was grace for being his daughter, grace for leading, grace for sharing the gospel, grace for my dreams, etc. I could go on for hours and hours. 

The trip was amazing in every aspect. The team was dynamic, fun and refreshing. They are a group of people who wanted to leave everything they had to give in India. The team was made up of powerhouses for the kingdom, who relied solely on the Spirit of God. Then there's the people of India who are so beautiful. The spiritual realm there is amazing. We simply stepped into what God was already doing. Many of our salvations were responses to dreams of Jesus telling people to surrender. People are open to seeing visions, having dreams, and experiencing the presence of God. The crazy thing is following Jesus there is an all or nothing thing, so when a Hindu decided to leave behind all his or her idols and way of life to make Jesus Lord of all, you knew it was such a real and genuine surrender. We got to plant a ton of seed and splash the kingdom of God in lots of places, and we are excited to hear about when others will reap the harvest. Everyone left encouraged and spiritually full.

All the above is able to be said because of the grace of God. Thank you, God, that I am a daughter first, before I am a leader, evangelist, discipler, friend, and carrier of dreams. God taught me how to rest on this trip. People joke all the time about how going to India is learning to go with the flow of the river. But for real, God threw me into his sea of grace and allowed me to float with the current of what he was doing. It's beautiful to know that we were made to be carried by God before we are to be carriers of God. I was constantly and tenderly carried by God through every step and every circumstance. His sea of grace ebbed away any remnants of my walls of self-protection, and I realized how trustworthy God really was. I mean... I'm still learning, but I look back a year from now, even a couple months, and see his patient, persistent pursuit of my heart.

I loved India, every second of it. I loved everything about it because I saw Jesus every direction I turned.