Last Week in Thailand

This is what my weekend in Pattaya consisted of, praise and worship to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!! This is my last week here in Thailand and I honestly don't know what to think. I am going to miss being here so much, God has grown a huge love for Thailand in my heart! I know God has great plans for me and my mantra for this trip has been Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you to give you a hope and a future."

This past weekend my friend Oh invited me and some friends to her house in Pattaya. When we arrived it was like a whole new world. The streets were lined with prostitutes and bright lights and bars. Men and women jaded by shiny objects that seem great from afar but empty and lackluster in the end. Inside Oh's tiny one-bedroom home we all sang and worshiped our magnificent God. Two different worlds one gives death the other gives life. I was asked to do Sunday morning Bible Study for us and as I prayed asking God what I should talk about He led me to Jeremiah 29:11. I thought this verse is used so many times how am I going to talk about this to a group of Thais, then He said read the whole chapter and I will show you what I mean. As I read the chapter I discovered a new meaning for this verse I thought I knew so much about, this verse that was my theme. Jeremiah was speaking to a group of exiled priests and prophets, he told them that God had a declaration for them. This was the declaration; to keep on living their lives, to plant gardens and marry their children and seek welfare in the city where they were sent. He told them not to listen to the false prophets and their dreams because He did not know them and after seventy years of this God said he would come back to the place where they were and bring them back home. And this is where the infamous verse comes into play, For He knows the plans he has for us!! Sometimes I wonder what's going to happen in my life, where is God taking me, what am I supposed to do with my life? I found my answer, LIVE! Live life glorifying God, prosper wherever He takes me and continue living my life because God has brought me here and He has a plan! If you continue reading God continues by saying that if we seek Him with all our heart we will find Him and He will restore our fortunes and bring us back from the places He has sent us. I get so caught up in the what, when, and where and always forget the WHO! We are to prosper wherever God takes us in life because He has a plan!

This is not an end but a continuation of a plan that God has already begun in my life and I am choosing to live it to the fullest, glorifying Him every step I take!! Next stop the Philippines!