Thailand Day 4: Sunday Service

We went to a church in Thailand and it was majority Caucasian which surprised me too. We didn't go to the CMO church because all of the members were still in the mountain celebrating the wedding. The speaker was very passionate and compelling.

Two things stood out to me personally. The first was that he calls his Cancer a blessing. Its a blessing he says because it is able to strip away his pride, jealousy, prejudice and make him fully rely on God for support. It humbles him and makes him appreciate life. It helps him ignore the little things, the often times petty things in life that cause jealous and lust and greed. It allows him to concentrate on God.

The second idea was about grace. Often times people use the forgiveness aspect of grace to forgive sins, however God also grants a pre-emtive grace to keep us sin from the first place. And most people under utilize that part of grace. The saving grace that keeps us from sin as opposed to the one that absolves our sins.

Sorry I'm starting to fall behind on my posts because we just started the camps and its very time consuming. Today we were up at 6:30 and got back to our hotel around 5. And I have to prepare lessons for each day so my posts will be less frequent. I'm sorry

I have a prayer request concerning the english church i went to. Most of them work for a school called Grace. And they just spend thousands of dollars developing the school and building things like a pool for their students, however the government just recently deemed the land that they built the school on was illegally obtained so now theyre in the processes of repossessing the land right after they just finished building the school. Can you pray that God's will be done concerning this matter, that he preserves the school so that it can be a launching point for future leaders spreading the love of Christ. Pray that God changes the hearts of the government officials. And if it is his will to remove the school, pray that he will comfort those who work and attend the school.

Praise God,

Patrick