a drop in the oceannnn

S: 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

1Finally, brothers, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you. 2And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not everyone has faith. 3But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one. 4We have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do the things we command. 5May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance.

OAP: It is crazy how through us, the message is spread, when i think about it, and the fact that i know jesus and don't shar him with everyone i meet, everyone who could have the chance of hearing it from me i am in shock. i think of all of the people that i encounter everyday and i know it'd be impossible to be there and tell them about christ, but if one person did that can you imagine the impact that itd have?! that would be insane. When we do venture out and do these things lord it is so clear that you provide for us. i have an amazing story. so last night was taco tuesday of course hahah and after dinner we couldn't think of anything to do so me brittany and chris decided to go make a bunch of taco's out of the leftovers, plums and waters that we had and bring them to the homeless downtown. so we go downtown and drive around and look for like twenty minutes for parking and then just park in some parking lot you have to pay for since all of the spots were taken. and as we were driving we saw that there were these people at the ceasar chavez park and something was going on. we saw that it was about freeing iran and the issue there with the president that they hadn't elected coming to power and having a young girl neda die for standing up for what she has believed in. we insantly knew that we needed and wanted to be apart of this. out of the hundreds and hundreds of people walking around the park chanting things such as "freedom for iran" and other things in farsi, we decided to join and just started to walk with random people. they greeted us nicely and asked what we were doing with the tacos and stuff and we told them our origional plan to come feed the homeless and how we wanted to walk with them. it was crazy that so many people were shocked by what we were doing. its sad that simple gestures like this are now so uncommon and shocking to people. but anyways, these random people we stood with happened to be iranian christians! totally god, and the explained everything that they were there for to us and just thanked us for being there and everything. it was amazing that out of all of these people we had stood with the iranian christians. totally god because the majority of these people study from the coran and don't believe what we do. and as we walked around we got to show god's love to these people by just showing them how we were out there along side them and out there loving the homeless. it was truely amazing. i felt god's presense so much. which is something i haven't felt in SO long. so then as the rally came to an end, we went back to the parking garage after handing out about half of the tacos waters and plums we had an iranin couple talked to us and encouraged us about how cool it was that we were there, and that we were helping the homeless. god's love shown through us last night. so we go to the car and are leaving the parking garage about to pay the guy and brittany and i offer him a water and taco, and it totallly caught him off guard, and he didn't want it but he was so surprised that he paid for our parking for us! it was crazy all i could think of was that God provides when we provide his love to others. it was insane. and so after that we had brought a bunch of old clothes and sweaters to give out but it was dark and late and we talked to some police officers who said we shouldn't pass out the tacos or clothes that late told us about a rescue mission we could bring them to that helps shelter homeless people for the night. it was truely an amazing night. god showed himself so much. i can't believe the beauty that he has placed right in front of us, and it is amazing. i can't even get over it.


jesus, i love you. you shelter us from evil, and provide us with your love. thank you for amazing people, and your incredible planning. thank you for making such insignificant things so powerful.