Dear headache, Please leave. Thank you.

I’m not new to headaches. I used to suffer some pretty intense migraines. However, for the past 4 days I have had this dull, gnawing ache parked in my head. I feel fine in the morning, getting up to get some breakfast and coffee, get ready for the day and out the door. Somewhere within the first couple of hours out and about the pain will return. It ebbs and flows, but has not gone away entirely. I’ve gone to the healing rooms and been prayed over. I’ve tried less coffee, more coffee, more water, more sleep, less sleep. And tonight to try to ease the pain I took a major pain-killer. If by tomorrow this has not subsided, I will venture out to a free clinic, or possibly the ER to seek a professional opinion and prescription help.

So, please, if you are reading this say a prayer for me and ask the Lord to show me His mercy and compassion by relieving me of this pain.

Oh my heart.

 

Whenever Micah travels for Nefarious: Merchant of Souls I don’t feel like myself. It really feels like half of my heart is missing. It’s true though.. right now half of my heart is in Cambodia.. he’s sleeping. The thing that gets me through the missing (besides Skype!) is the fact that I know that the Lord is in this. Far more than I could ever hope to see an end to human trafficking, HE desires it. More than I hope to see these women and young girls delivered from the hell they live each and every day, HE longs for it. The compassion I feel over the brokeness and torment these young ones face is but a drop in the bucket compared to the jealousy that burns in the heart of their Maker.

So even though I’m here in my pitiful state, missing the one I love, I know that the purpose and process of this documentary is so much bigger than I know.

This is what I pray for the women and girls that find themselves (bold and italics mine):

Psalm 10:12-16

Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless. Why does the wicked man revile God?  Why does he say to himself,

“He won’t call me to account”?

But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

Break the arm of the wicked and evil man; call him to account for his wickedness that would not be found out.

The LORD is King for ever and ever; the nations will perish from his land. You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.

So as the team makes their way through Phnom Penh and Svay Pak, Cambodia this week this is my prayer, that the Lord would hear the desire of the afflicted and encourage them, that He would arise and defend the fatherless and oppressed. I pray that the effort, the hard work and time that is poured into this documentary will convey the depth of depravity that looms in the world, all the while shining the hope of the Gospel through Jesus as the only solution to the problem of human trafficking.

Ah the winds of change…

It’s been quite a while since I’ve felt this breeze. I feel like this year has been one of the most consistent years in my life here at IHOP. I’ve had the same job and prayer room schedule for one whole year. That is about to change. A new season is headed my way. I’m about to transition out of being a Ministry Assistant. “What will you be doing?”, you may ask. Truth be told, I’m not quite sure. I feel the desire to sing for the first time in a year, so that is an option. I might be snatched up for another admin type job here at the Mission’s Base but I don’t really know. At the end of November I will be completely open.

I’m leaning towards being back in the evenings, but afternoons are really nice too. I just know that I have enjoyed having PR time in the evenings but I also really enjoy having time to actual cook a meal and eat at a normal dinner time. I feel like I have some options, so I guess we’ll see where I land.