Colombia Part 2

Tonight, in preparation for my trip to Barranquilla
(which is only just less than two weeks away!)




.... I want to give thanks.




Have we discovered how good the Lord is?
Then in us he is as good as that!
Is his power great?
Then in us it is no less great!!!!!

Praise God,

his life is as mighty as ever.

IT IS MIGHTY IN ME!

IT IS MIGHTY IN YOU!

I c a n ' t l o v e t h e s e.

I can try to show love.
I can try all I want.


and find, that I have none.
It is not natural.
I do not have a love for these people.




JESUS DOES.



I want to run outside and scream it:
JESUS DOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



And what a difference this love makes!
It redeems.
It rescues.
It protects.
It is flawless.
It is whole.
It is not selfseeking.
It is not boastful.
It is not proud.
It is not envious.
It is unchanging & neverending.


I, Bethany Hurstell... do not and cannot dissipate it.


My love is empty.


My love lacks knowledge.


But Christ's love completes!!!




O Jesus.



O Sweet Jesus,
Hear these small words of mine.


Express it.
LIVE IT OUT!


through ME!


Your Word says in Ephesians 3:16, 19...
that I am "strengthened with power through your Spirit in the inward man; ... to know the love of Christ" May this be so! What I show forth outwardly, Lord Jesus, may it be what You have put within me! I don't want to be filled with anything else. I don't wan to spill anything else. But You. YOU!!!!!!


You have given me Christ. And there is now NOTHING for me to receive outside of HIM!!



I give thanks.... because You are all I need.
You're all that I want.



And you are ALL that these people need.
Show them the reality of the emptiness of their lives.
Show them he fullness of yourself.




Touch them.



















Save them.






















Heal them.

















Give them peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Colombians carrying the symbol of peace: a dove.. and
saying that it has been nearly 60 years since there was
any true peace in the country. More than 2 generations
have grown up only knowing horrific violence.)

I no longer live.
But Christ lives through me.


My holiness is spelled with a capital H.
My love is spelled with a capital L.
My compassion is spelled with a capital C.

Because Christ is revealed!!

I am nothing.
He is everything!!



I GIVE THANKS
FOR HE IS GREAT
HE IS GLORIOUS
HE IS MARVELOUS
HE IS WONDERFUL
HE IS POWERFUL

HE is mine. And I am His!!!!!!!!


And I will walk BOLDLY in this!