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When you say yes to God, expect to have your mind blown.<\/p>\n

As I sit here in front of my laptop, I can’t help but to think about how amazing is my God.\u00a0 He continues to blow my mind, even when I think, “oh it can’t get any better than this.”\u00a0 I’m even more amazed at how quickly He responds to my needs, even when I don’t even realize that I am a need of something.<\/p>\n

This morning, during my quiet time, I chose to watch\/listen to a recent message from Pastor Ralph, the associate pastor from my home church, (City Gate Church in Burlington, NC [shout out to my church!]),\u00a0 titled “What Does This Have To Do With Me?<\/a>“.\u00a0 Something that he said that I have found to be so true in my life lately was, “God will often show up and challenge our comfort to push us into our calling.” It goes back to my decision to leave the comfort of the classroom, to go into the world to become a missionary.\u00a0 These past couple of months as a student in this DTS has not been the most comfortable thing, but God has shown up with every moment of discomfort.<\/p>\n

On the subject of being uncomfortable, I found myself in many situations from which I would have loved to run.\u00a0 One of those situations being times of street evangelism.<\/p>\n

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As disciples, we are called to go and share the gospel with the lost, right?\u00a0 However, I do not believe this is something that we, as Christians, do enough.\u00a0 One of the reasons I love my team, is because they push for to evangelize.<\/p>\n

Our first day in Greece, we went out to get to know the city of Thessaloniki a bit.\u00a0 As we went out, we\u00a0discovered that there was a gay pride parade\/party going on – this is when one of our team members\u00a0decided it would be a fun time for street evangelism.\u00a0 This was optional, for those who wanted to stay in the\u00a0streets, were going to go evangelize while the others headed back to our apartment.<\/p>\n

I did\u00a0not want\u00a0to do street evangelism, but I also didn’t want to miss an opportunity that God could have for me, so I stayed in the streets.<\/p>\n

Ale and I teamed up with Ben, one of our staff leaders.\u00a0 Ben is Mr. Evangelism; He has never showed to be afraid to go and talk to anyone about Jesus – I’ve always admired him for that (at least since I’ve met him back in March).\u00a0 Secretly, I was glad that he was with us because I was like, great Ben will do all the talking while Ale and I jump in where necessary.\u00a0 It did NOT go as I planned at all!<\/p>\n

Ben pushed both Ale and me to go, and I appreciate him for that.\u00a0 We probably walked around, contemplated, and hesitated for at least 10-15 minutes before we finally stopped with the excuses.\u00a0 Honestly, what hit me was when he asked us, “why don’t you want to do it?”\u00a0 I didn’t answer him, mainly because my response (in my head) was that I was afraid.\u00a0 But afraid of what?\u00a0 Fear is not of the Lord, AT ALL!\u00a0 I knew as I said it, that the enemy wanted me to be afraid to talk, he wouldn’t want me to change someone’s eternity.\u00a0 It was then that I said, OKAY!\u00a0 I told myself that I HAD to do it; I couldn’t let the enemy beat me in this!<\/p>\n

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As soon as I mentally made that decision to go, he points out a girl that was sitting alone behind\u00a0where we were sitting.\u00a0 Ale and I looked at her, looked at her, and we both decided that she was the one.\u00a0 We walk up to her and saw that she was crying.\u00a0 The moment I opened my mouth to speak to her, everything in me changed.\u00a0 It all just flowed, reminded me of a time when I was reading a book Daddy had me to read, and it talked about how at times, we just need to just initiate, then God will do the rest.\u00a0 By me sitting down, saying no, coming up with excuses, I was just giving<\/p>\n

the enemy opportunities to stop me from doing what God wanted.\u00a0 However, the best part is that\u00a0even in my\u00a0hesitation, Daddy used it to teach me and to bring us to Sta.<\/p>\n

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Sta was able to go from tears to smiles, laughter, and from saying that she’s an atheist who doesn’t believe in there being a God, to saying that she believes that God is a good person, and allowing us to pray for her.\u00a0 We left our time with Sta after many hugs, and she left with a smile still on her face.\u00a0 In your prayer time, I ask that you pray for our friend Sta.\u00a0 Pray that God will continue to place Christians in her life, that will love on her, and that she too will decide to give her life to Christ.<\/p>\n

As the week went on, we were presented with more opportunities to do street evangelism, and the more we did it, the more comfortable I became with it.\u00a0 The last day of street evangelism, Ale and I were teamed up again, and we literally just went for it – NO HESITATIONS, NO EXCUSES!<\/p>\n

Last year, God gave me #MeetNoStrangers.\u00a0 I thought I understood what that meant, but God continues to reveal to me what He intended for this movement.\u00a0 To meet no strangers is evangelism, and I see why the enemy has wanted to place this fear of evangelism inside of me.\u00a0 Daddy has called me to GO and share His love with the lost.\u00a0 Sharing His love doesn’t always have to look the same.<\/p>\n

We were presented with many opportunities to love on the people of Greece.<\/p>\n

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