Video of Second Half

I was able to put together another video of pictures and different things so I put that on facebook so if you get the chance check it out. Since we didn't have internet access while we were traveling I obviously was not able to update but I also don't want to have one long massive post of everything from the last two weeks or whatever so I will probably do a couple different posts over the next few days of how the rest of the trip went.

Not much time left

Let me just give some highlights from the last week. If you remember I had an opportunity to share the gospel with a guy that I met on the beach. Well, I met with him to give him a bible and when I did he brought with him a friend from work. His friend could not speak English but was very interested in Christianity and discussing things from the bible. We ended up talking for a while in a cafe. I was able to give the gospel to both of them and he translated a lot for both of us with questions from his friend and than my answers to the questions. I was able to give him a bible so I praise God for that. I hope to meet with him one or two more times in the next few days before we leave. So, pray that God would open up another opportunity to get to speak with both of these men. Pray that he will read the bible that I gave him and pray that God would open up his eyes to the truth of the gospel.

Another great opportunity was earlier this week I was sitting in my classroom waiting for my students to come and I was asking God to give me an opportunity to share the gospel with the students that I had not been able to share the gospel with yet. Well God already had the plans at work, because the only two students that showed up that day, because the others were traveling for the day, were the ones that I had not been able to share the gospel with yet. So I decided since many of the students were absent that we would just kind of have a day of discussion. We talked about their government for a while and how everything worked and then they brought up the topic of religion and wanted to know my views so I gave it to them full force. Praise God that they were able to hear the gospel and that God gave me the words to speak.

Our time is short and running out. Pray that I would not waste time but use the time that I have left wisely for the glory of God.

Video of the first half of the trip on Facebook.

I was messing around and put together a video of some pictures and video clips from the first half of our trip. I tried to upload it on here but it didn't work so it is on my facebook account. If you get the chance check it out.

"Could you get me a Bible..."

Last night was incredible to see how God worked. I went to the beach after dinner and played a little soccer and met a few people. There was an older man that spoke English and I was able to talk to him for a little bit. After we finished playing soccer I walked down the beach a little ways and then sat down and started reading my bible. A younger guy, maybe mid twenties, came up to me and started talking to me and then asked me what type of book I was reading from. Well, to make a long story short we ended up talking for over an hour and I was able to walk through pretty much all of redemptive history, OT and NT and give this man the gospel. It was incredible to see how God gave me the words to say and the thoughts to think and the verses that God brought to my mind were incredible. I am reminded again that it is completely of Him and all about Him and I need to continue to saturate myself in the word and prayer in dependence on Him. One thing that I kept telling the guy that I was talking to was that he needed to read it for himself and truly see what the Bible has to say so that God can use His words to convict him and then he can either accept the truth or reject it. At the end of our conversation it was awesome because he ended up asking "could you get me a Bible?" and of course I told him that I could so I will be giving him an Arabic Bible tonight. Pray that God will use the word in his life as he reads it to open up his eyes to the truth of the gospel. I think I am going to have him start in the gospel of John...