Fishing in Costa Rica

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! As I look back at 2021 I just have to give thanks to God. He never stopped providing, guiding, teaching, loving and being who He says He is. I’m so grateful for this last year and I’m so excited for this next year. I believe this year of 2022 will be a year of “refining.” God is just getting started with me and I’m so grateful that there is even more of Him. 

 

My time in Costa Rica was a blessing. The squad treated me like one of there own and that doesn’t always happen. Sometimes I really have to earn a spot on the squad. But Gap I loved me so well and allowed me to speak truth and love into there lives from day one. As far as ministry goes, many days were spent painting light post on the main street in Jaco. Through that we connected with the locals. I got to share the gospel and pray for many people who would walk by. Here is a story of one of those days.

I was walking back to the base and a man approached me and asked if I wanted any drugs. I told him no thanks and took a couple of steps past him. Then I thought, “wait a minute, this guy needs Jesus, I’m gonna tell him.” So I stopped and asked him, “hey you need anything? Because I got something you need.” He immediately thought I had some kind of drug or drink he wanted. He stepped in closer and asked what I had. So I told him, “You need Jesus.” He looked up at me, this time not with the desire to sell me anything shady but with a look of desperation and pain. He said, “how did you know? I need Him so badly right now.” He started to cry and share about his life. How he was doing his best to stay clean and off the streets, that he has a daughter and a wife back home. That he relapsed last night and just wanted to go home to his family and forgot who God says he was. I was able to remind him of the truth, remind him that there is hope in Jesus and that with God’s help he could walk away from addiction. He cried some more, we prayed together, he told me he loved me, he picked up his things and headed towards the bus to go home. I love that guy, I’m blessed and honored that God would use my past life of drug and alcohol abuse to speak to this new friend in a way he understood. 

 

 

Then Jesus said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men.”
Mark 1:17

Often I see people simply walk away from the dark and ugly parts of this world. We tend to simply walk away from those that truly need help. If we consistently avoid those stuck in darkness, who is gonna point them to Jesus? If not us than who? If not now then when? We are fishers of men, we must get out there and fish! Use whatever bait God’s given you. Each of us can catch certain people. Our stories attract certain people. I am blessed that I live most of my life in sin and darkness. I know what it looks like and sounds like, I know how to talk to people stuck in it. We all have a story, I’m sure that person who is homeless or addicted has much more in common with us than we think. Let’s start this year living intentionally. Let’s start with our family and friends, our co-workers and neighbors. Let’s live life with impact for His Kingdom. Let’s all go fishing 😉

Thank you guy’s! I’m praying for you, please pray for my travels and my squad Gap I. I’ll be in Georgia for this month then hopefully head to the East coast to visit believer’s and different churches. And I want to leave you with a couple of sweet videos. ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

 

A couple of women from Gap I made these videos on the day we had baptisms. 22 were baptized in the Pacific ocean! That alone is worth giving shouts and praises to God! 

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