it amazes me how it's always the things that you don't expect that touch your heart and move you the very most, and humbles you beyond comprehension. today i experienced a deaf Kenyan leading praise and worship at our training conferrence. he signed and danced out the words to "nothing but the blood of Jesus" while some sung in english and the rest sung in swahili. this was truly one of the greatest experiences of my entire life! this man has never heard a spoken word, but he is as fired up and in love with Christ as anybody i've ever met. his actions and facial expressions alone were able to convey his passion and love for Christ as well or maybe even better than the best sermon or song i've ever heard. it's moments like this when you feel like punching yourself in the face for ever having doubts that God can use you with your limited experience and abilities and the many times we complain about the circumstances we find ourselves in. i felt the Holy Spirit sweep through the room like a mighty wind and i couldn't help but to dance passionately and cry like a baby for about 10 mnutes after the song ended. in fact, i'm crying now while writing and thinking about this again :-) i'm so glad that i didn't have to speak right after this because i'm pretty sure i wouldn't have been able to do it. often, traveling missionary/evangelists fall into the incorrect view that we are somehow better than the local Christians and that they need our help to do anything. but it's only when we put ourselves on the same level and get behind them and help support them in their work that the Holy Spirit really moves... today was an awesome day. the conferrence went pretty well despite numerous power outages and technical difficulties. we will be doing the same thing tomorrow and i will be giving my presentation then. please pray that God will continue to move and that everything i say will be straight from him and nothing of my own knowledge.
this should be a link to the video of the "nothing but the blood of Jesus" experience. i don't know how well the personal experience will translate to video, but here it is and i hope it moves you the way it moved me
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=520582167796
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