Let Your Word Run Abba...

I'm so sorry for not updating my blog recently! Every time that I would get ready to update, I would get lazy and think about all of the things I needed to put in the blog and decided to "do it later". Arrgh.

I have been having an awesome time here in Tokyo. Monday-Thursday tends to be busy with trying to reach out to students on both Waseda and Todai's campus. I also help to lead the House of Prayer that my friend April started here in Tokyo. I usually end up helping to lead worship and help April with ideas and strategies to help build the House of Prayer. My heart for Japan has been growing as I have seen how hard the spiritual climate is here in Japan. Even in spite of the hard climate though, I would like to share some cool divine appointments that The Lord has given me.

I was praying last week on Wed morning in my devotional time that I would have a divine appointment, one that would be so evidently The Lord basically. I said; "Would You give me that divine appointment that I wouldn't otherwise have unless I asked." I also felt that it was going to be with a guy. So...later that day I was walking around Waseda's campus and I stopped in a campus convenience store. Long story short, I end up talking to the cashier who was a foreign exchange student from China and we ended up having a very long conversation and even talked about me being a Christian. I ended up giving him my email and he asked if we could be friends, even after I left Japan. I said sure! It was crazy. Then, as I was walking around the campus, later, I was coming down some stairs outside and two Japanese guys were rapidly approaching me. They signaled to me and then they asked me why i was there and what I was doing. They had so many questions and after they found out that I was a Christian they were even more interested. They seemed pleased to hear that I was a Christian. They went on asking questions and then one of them called a friend on the phone and he came to listen also. They asked questions about why I was not an atheist anymore, what was my favorite scripture, etc. It was going so well, that I decided now is as good a time as any to preach the gospel, so I did and even included Jesus' second coming which interested them more. They asked questions about how I knew that He was coming, etc. By the end of the conversation, 2 more of their friends showed up. It was awesome! The Holy Spirit gave me such wisdom, and then, one of the guys was so desperate to meet with me, He wanted my contact info and we met the very next day and will again this week.

The next morning that I woke up after having those cool divine appointments, I asked God why was that so easy? And He spoke so clearly and said..."You have not because you ask not." I realized how foolish it is for me to not ask for these type of divine appointments daily. The Lord is good and He truly is Lord of the harvest.

(The above picture is of two guys that Amanda and I met at Todai one day as we were sitting outside. Please pray for them.)