Hello readers. I apologize for another delayed entry. I have been suffering from some type of illness for the past 12 days now, and am finally feeling well enough to sit down & write.
As for Friday, the best word to describe the entire night would be... SWEET!
From arrival, easy parking, lots of help setting up, to enough friends to help serve... everything was just perfect.
We were blessed with enough resources to this past week to pick up additional pasta, which was a great and (well needed) plan. The gathering was much larger than we'd have ever expected during the cold season. There was well over 100 people standing in line for dinner.
As always, before dinner, a message was given and of that 100+, I'd say maybe 30 people actually were listening & paying attention. GOD has patiently taught me that it's not about how many people listen, it's who listens. His word doesn't return void, and His Spirit speaks to certain people at certain times. My job is to only remain faithful and speak The Word of truth.
I could see what The Lord was doing in the hearts of those that He'd given the ears to hear that night, and I was given the opportunity to spend the next 1.5hr sitting with those and talk more about GOD on an intimate level. I am so truly thankful that I've been given such a unique opportunity to become a friend to some of these men & women, just by the love of GOD in their lives.
Loving Thy Neighbor (as a team of friends) has become such a powerful tool that GOD has used in Pacific Beach. None of us that volunteer, may ever know the full extent of what GOD is doing in the lives of those that we encounter, but it is exciting to see even just a glimpse each week. Each one of us, have unique gifts that God has handed to us, to be used in different ways for different people. As we are approaching nearly our 2 year mark down there... I look back and can only sit in awe of what GOD is doing. When Amanda and I first started coming down to PB, it was to feed some spaghetti to maybe 5 people... but it's become so much more because of what GOD is allowing.
If I can be of any encouragement to anybody... please don't keep GOD in a box, step out in faith, and allow Him to use you in ways you couldn't even imagine!
