moving on to Chiang Mai...

Hey guys! it has been awhile since i left you guys a post so i thought i would briefly share what i have been up to.

Tomorrow we leave for Chiang Mai, which also means outreach is half over..... this also means we start doing the 'hard work!' Alot of our time here we were led by hearing God's voice. It was very difficult at times, but we had the opportunity of building relationships with some really incredible people. It taught me alot about myself and really being obedient to God. During the most part we were being impatient, we just wanted God to move in really big and crazy ways-and he didnt do that until the very end. it required patience and alot of prayer and obedience on our part. We werent asking for it when it happened, but it did.


Working in the red light districts was difficult, all we did was prayer walk. The most difficult thing for me was being obedient to Gods voice. For me personaly, i wanted to go up to every single girl and talk to her.... but that was not what our team/our God was asking us to do. We were prayer walking-and IF God asked us to talk to people-then we were supposed to be obedient to that. 'our battle is not with flesh and blood, but with powers and principalities.' Sometimes, those strongholds really have to be demolished before something can move in the physical realm. Prayer is the only thing that can change that. How many people walk into these places like buddhist temples and patpong/nana plaza and are willing to take a stand and be bold enough to pray and say NO to the things happening there? Gods love is strong enough.

we have to believe (and at first this is something i really struggled with) that when God isnt asking us to do a thing, that it means that he IS and always has been taking care of these people.



we have to take time with god and pray, we have to invest time in our relationship with him otherwise itll leave us empty-as i experienced for a little while being here. but god is never the reason for things like that, its always us. i am excited to go to patpong for a final time tonight because i know that god will be working in ways that i cannot see. now we are off to chiang mai where we will be working in loi krah with 'light house in action' with a ministry of theirs called 'LOVE ACTS' where we will be teaching the girls in the bars english.... so that one day when they get out of there, they will have that skill of speaking english.




xoxoxo
Chelsea

Psalm 82:3-4
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