Arrival in North Vernon

When my ministry partner and I arrived at North Vernon, we stopped and ate chinese food. I had vegetable Lo Mein. The food was pretty good, and they had those rolls with sugar on top, and they were very good as well. That afternoon we arrived at our living quarters, and there were two choices of rooms that we were staying in. My friend and I are in the upstairs of a wonderful couple. They have two rooms upstairs that they are allowing us to stay in, and they have DSL, which is really nice considering that I like internet access, and it will also give me much opportunity to keep writing in my blog. I hope to be able to put my journal on here soon as well, but I have not finished copying it. It is absoloutly amazing to think of all the things that God has done for me. I think that when we write them down, they become more real. Now back to the topic at hand. I listened to Pilgrim's Progress, the story of Christiana. Chirstiana is a character in Pilgrim's progress who is in the city of destruction and she gets a letter from the Lord on how to get out of it. When she recieves the letter a friend of hers (Mercy). They all head off toward this gate and when they get there it says "knock and it shall be opened unto you." So Christiana knocks and knocks and finally someone answers and lets her and her children in. (This is a shorter version of the story). After that the door shuts, and mercy is left on the outside, but she knocks and knocks and no one seems to answer. Finally someone does answer the door, but when she gets in, she explains how she felt. She wondered why no one opened the door to her right away. The gatekeeper says that it was the enemy who tried to discourage her, but that if she knocked the door would be opened. I think that is how it is in a lot of our lives. We feel as if God is not hearing us and not opening the door to us, and in reality, He does hear us, but the devil tries to discourage us. Let us not let the enemy have any more ground. Let us keep on knocking on heaven's door. The promise is that the door will be opened. Last night I listened to a sermon on not being a critic. So many people out there criticize and call names, when they themeselves have the same problem that they are accusing everyone else of having. After trying to stay up late and downloading a whole bunch of sermons, I went to bed. The next morning I got up and had worship. While I was having worship, I remembered what I had done in the past when I would have worship. I would read two chapters out of the Bible every morning. Now the truth is that I had stopped doing this for a while, but I felt impressed to read two chapters this morning because of my experience with the story of Christiana. I am starting to realize that we need to be more persistant with God. We need to wrestle with God just like Jacob did. Well that is all for today, check back in tommorow for more:)