Do to unforseen circumstances the start of my time in Romania hasn’t looked like how I thought it would.
God has revealed more of His sense of humor or maybe He has given me a joyful perspective on the whole situation.
Let me explain, during our week at launch I had heard that because I wasn’t vaccinated that I might have to quarantine for 2 weeks as soon as I got into Craiova. When I heard that I was very frustrated and began questioning God. I went to Him and started asking why is it that You call me to this mission and your going to have me start out inside. I want to tell PEOPLE about you and I can’t really do that if I’m stuck inside for 2 weeks. Those were just a few of the frustrations I was praying. Per usual in the mist of my conversation with the LORD, He calms me down and shows me Himself in the most of my thoughts. I was reminded that ministry can be done anywhere and that God can use alone time if we draw near to Him. This thought was already being highlighted multiple times to me, in sermons about Jesus leaving to be alone with the Father and my personal reading time in Matthew 6 where Jesus lays out how to pray.
The LORD comforted me and built my trust in Him, by reminding me that He is in it ALL!
Well in my last post I talked about how he showed up multiple times on the travel here and from my view it seemed like He was working everything out to where we would get here and not have to quarantine because of PERFECT timing! Like literally PERFECT timing it was crazy!
But after that first night’s rest in Craiova we got some news that we would still have to stay in an area for an unknown amount of time! Laugh Out Loud!!! God is light years ahead of all of my thinking. He took me on a roller-coaster of emotions and taught me the same lesson through it all.
TRUST ME!
Life will be a whole lot easier if no matter what I/we all just trust and obey.
And to continue to build on God’s amazing plan! I had already dealt with all of these emotions 3 or 4 days before getting to our destination and was able to console and have a positive mindset for my team and some of the other squad memebers.
Most of our Squad has been confined for 9 days at the time of this post. Everyone is ok and I am healthy and feeling good.
This has definitely been a time of preparation and readying, being able to draw near to the LORD and build excitement for the opportunity to go out and share Jesus with people.
God is so good!
Please be praying for continued health and protection. Also for the time when we do get to go out that there would be opportunities to share the Good News!!!
Shout out to my sister for making this mask!
Hopefully it sparks a lot of questions and opportunities to talk about God.
Also yes Dad I know my hair isn’t combed. I’ll make sure it looks presentable when I get to go out.
Ecclesiastes 7: 14
Proverbs 16: 9
Proverbs 3: 5-6
How kind of the Lord to let you wrestle with hard stuff before it even happened! Glad everyone is doing alright. Love your picture and the fact your hair isn’t combed!
I like the hair and the mask, my brother. You are constantly in my prayers.
So proud of you Anthony. It’s not always easy to see the positive through adversity. Thankful you are healthy and chomping at the bit to get out there and preach salvation. May God make your way easy and send you many open hearts. Be safe, we love you! The Eaker Family
Bine, Anthony. Love you, brother.
The blog drew me in with the first picture. Your assertion of reliance is paramount;
How little we know of His plan — who are we to call anything unfortunate?
Glad to be with the whole group in this time requiring much encouragement.
The Lord bless your further writing.
I agree, God continues to amaze me and I love getting to laugh and be joyful with what He is doing!
Planning on bringing the long hair back! 🙂
I’ve heard you’ve been having some issues due to the state of the world right now as well. I guess this is just kind of what it will look like now.
I too will be praying for Wisdom in how to approach life in a continually shifting setting