LITTLE IS MUCH

I believe in divine appointments. We have our agenda and God has His so, when our plans do not go as planned we often forget that He is in control and He has everything already laid out. This is something I am working on ...waiting on Him and knowing if it is for His glory it will all come together.
Romans 8:28.

On this mission trip to Nicaragua I have learned alot of things; one is always when I get on the plane..a divine appointment is waiting. I have already learned that God is going to make sure I sit in the middle seat. :( 
He knows I do not like it. :)

On the plane ride from Houston to Nicaragua I sat by a young lady about 20. I already made my mind up that I was going to sleep...I had forgot about the appointment.  I knew He was not going to leave me alone untill I asked her if she was a christain so I started the small talk. Her name was Lydsney, she was with a small group from college doing some site seeing and college work for credit. We talked all the way to Nicaragua airport. I asked her ...she anwsered back...scientology. I take a deep breath, look across the aisle and Eddie is reading a book about Different Religions ! Oh, why could'nt Eddie have sit here !! I told my husband I need to go to the restroom..haha, he grinned and said you are doing fine, just my luck. I am not very good at talking, I sat there and thought you know I am never going to see her again ...but, I will see her again so, we talked she told me that it better suited her values. WOW !!  I asked her where she would go when she died ? She said back to the earth and life would go on but, she did believe that there was something out there. We contiued to talk and I told her that Jesus die for her and He loved her. I then gave her a track before she had to depart.
Divine appointment


Being at the farm and getting to know everyone on the team is an awesome experience. You get to meet new friends that you have for the rest of your life. Missionaries from every trip, translators, preachers and just dear friends. Some of the most precious people God has put in my life I have met on mission trips.The clinics, crusades and the feeding and playing with the children I could do everyday. I did alot of watching to see how things worked and went throughout the day.You just never know what God has in store for you next!

I guess what I will remember most was the day we were suppose to go to the orphange it was a long ride and we could not go in ... I was a little disappointed for some of the girls. We headed back to the farm. We then loaded the bus with 450 bags of food heading to the big garbage dump and going to try to make it to the crusade on time. Once again, no go. God had our route already planned. Not being able to go there they then  decided to go to the Masatepe garbage dump. Oh my, here is where He broke my heart...I will never be the same. I started handing out toys and stuffed animals from the window, at the end there was one liitle boy left. I looked down in the suitcase knowing there was nothing left and in the bottom laid a dime. I thought, oh well why not, so I picked it up leaned out as far as I could and placed it in his little dirty hand. He looked at it flipped it over , closed his hand tight and looked up at me, smiled then took off running. I thought no more about it.

 I stepped off the bus to join the team, some in tears others busy handing out toys and food.  Bro. Sonny preached the word and many held hands high.  After, a young woman came to me trying to tell me something over and over I could not understand her and I knew I needed to hear what she was saying. I found Sara and she transalated.  The young woman held my hand and prayed and told me she knew it was from the heart and that LITTLE WAS MUCH over and over !  Thats when I saw the little boy standing beside her. I could not hold back the tears.  She held me and consoled me. As we were getting on the bus to leave she would not let go of my hand. Looking out the window at her she held her hand up and made the sign telling me once again that little is much.   I will never forget her.

Thinking on the bus ride to the crusade it hit me the song that we sang that morning "Little is Much when God is in it". GLORY !!  Gods Plan ! Now every time I see a dime it takes me back and I think about them and how small a dime is but how big it was that day because God was in it! So now, I cannot spend my dimes and I put them in my jar I bought while in Nicaragua with hopes of doing something for her someday. Lord willing.
Divine appointment.

In the airplane going home, guess where I get to sit !! An eldery gentleman is sitting by the window. He is from Nicaragua, so you know he speaks spanish, great I get to sleep. Divine appointment. I can not sit still ,I was getting mad because my spanish is not good. After about 10 minutes I lean over and look out the window,he was wiping his eyes. I said ,God help me and then I said Hi, how are you? He smiled and said I'm fine how are you?
His name was Francesco, he told me he was a christian and was a citizen of the USA and has lived in California for 23 years, that he was a truck driver and every year he flys to Nicaragua to visit his 98 year old mother Wilma and his son Lukus who is 45. When he saw my shirt I asked him if he had heard of Bro. Sonny Holland and he shook his head and wiped the tears. He wanted to know how many times they went and the more we talked the more he wiped. He tried to help me with my spanish until we could see the coast of the US. He looked out the window and said beautiful water, beautiful and cried. My heart was breaking once again. As I was getting off the plane I said Francesco, May God richly bless you and your family...you will be in my prayers.
Divine appiontment.

  I have learned that little things are much when God is in it !

God has so blessed me with so much.  I pray I will be found using it for His Glory ! I believe God will use you if you are willing . He will be your mouth if you just open it. He will be your eyes to see and He will guide your feet to go and your hands to help others. I believe in divine appointments now more than ever. It is His plan not mine. I am only here to LOVE, SERVE AND OBEY