Saturday, January 16, 2010

My name is Jeremy Holcombe....and I am a Jesus Follower.

So. Many people thought I went to Spain for my Birthday. No way. Although, the ticket return trip was only $5. That was nice. Does not make sense, it cost $65 dollars to get to the airport. (I have bad English, especially when I do not care to correct because I am tired.)
Anywho.
Spain.

What a week. We went there for faith week. I prayed. Robert prayed. We came together and we both felt like God had said....Spain. I especially got Barcelona. Sooooo off we go, but before we went. We were challenged. Luke 10...but from verse 4: Carry no money, no bag, no shoes..... Of course we took what was on our body. And maybe an extra pair of socks....but nothing else accept passport, towel, and Bible. (and tooth paste because if your going to be talking to people, your breath needs to be decent). We took no money or anything. When I say no money....I do not mean a little bit....or a tiny but....but simply: no money. Faith week. It rocked.

So we prayed ALOT. What else were we suppose to do? We did not know. So we did what the Bible says: Matt 6:25-33:
"25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his lifea]">[a]? 28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."

Now, if your still with me....reread the last verse: "Seek FIRST His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" Man. That was the hardest thing this week and its so true. Its literal. We had nothing this week and God took care of us. When we did not worry about food or shelter, and just started talking to people about our faith, praying, and blessing people, things would be taken care of. We did not tell people what we were doing, some we would after a long time, but God provided for us through people. One point in time, we sat beside a guy after we were really hungry, and all I did was say Hi, and the first thing he said was "Here, have some food, I have plenty, what do you want?" If we ever got money, it could easily be a huge distraction, so a lot of the times we would just give it to other people to bless them, for example: we bought food with the money we had and walked around and gave it to homeless people, which set off a chain of events to some pretty cool things.
SO much stuff happened over the week....its a lot to remember and we wrote it all down though.

So after meeting 33 different nationalites, sleeping in bus stations (with homeless people), airports, and bathrooms, and talking with tons and tons of people we are back in Spain. We made tons of new friends, some of who have invited us to their home countries to visit (lol). We learned lots of lessons. But the I think something that is so cool is that: God is faithful, He always will be. Its so easy to just fall into your own kingdom. His Word is alive and real, and the scripture: give us this day our daily bread became so true to us.

Now I am back in a bed, warm showers, and plenty of food. Thank you Yahew, contiune to rock my world, change my life, and see your Kingdom come. All for you. Amen.

1 comment:

  1. Hey Jeremy,
    thanks for sharing your story. its so encouraging to see you test your faith in such a tangible way. it blesses me to see a man like you abandon everything the world has to offfer in pursuit of God and His goodnees. keep running with Him, keep the faith, dont let the distractions of this world turn you back!! i really believe you will only continue to see and experience incredible things that can only be explained by God's work in your life. amazing!
    jealous,
    rodney

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