Return to base

I’ve just got back from two weeks in Central Asia – my third trip to this wonderful part of the world. I just want to feedback a few thoughts…there is so much to unpack but here are a few thoughts for now.

I went not knowing Gods agenda, but went looking for connections, opportunities to learn what the father is doing and to see the kingdom break in – I was not disappointed, though I know there is a great deal more to come.

I was travelling with a great team of humble Jesus lovers (four of us in total) with big servant hearts and a desire to do the will of the father. Much of the purpose of the trip was around the work of the Holy Spirit with teaching and demonstration, God showed up time after time after time.

There was so much healing being done, daddy was healing up the broken hearted and bringing much refreshing, we also saw some healing miracles, deaf ear opened, knees and joints healed, kidney pain gone, to mention just a few.

Its incredible how hungry the people are for God to work there, and he’s doing some deep deep work. I came home encouraged,  I think because of our journey here in the UK I  seemed to effortlessly mesh with what is happening over there at times it felt like stepping into comfortable slippers, the connections seemed so strong.

There is also a major shift in thinking happening, I kept having conversations about organic church, underground church, a shift from empire building to Kingdom, the presence of God throughout the whole trip was tangible. The father seems to be using the political atmosphere to provoke thought and new ways of doing things, I’m really excited about what will emerge over the next few years.

Its always interesting coming home, the first time I had such a culture shock,  the second time less so, this time I think I’ve realised that the lessons that God was teaching me have started to be outworked here in my life, we have made massive changes in the past 3 years.

I often wonder why God can move in such power over seas but it’s so hard here, and I don’t think it’s just our materialism and wealth, though these things  surely have an influence, I think it’s deeper than that…I think it’s because we have learned to mask our needs…we’ve learned to build complicated façades of which materialism and wealth is just a part, we don’t want to visit the pain and hurt, we mask it with stuff, with medication, with self importance and busyness and many other learned coping mechanisms that keep God at arms length – humility is surely the key to seeing God break into our lives.

It’s funny you go to serve and give and come back richer, challenged and different as a result – My passion is to see things transformed here in the UK yet I’m learning so much from our friends on the other side of the world, bring it on.