No Water, No Electricity, and Waiting

Many of you have been sending me e-mails, writing on facebook, talking with me on skype and asking how I am doing.  My response is always....."I'm ok."  I am at a point now where it seems like I'm just hunkering down and waiting for Him.  I am trying to learn this language for Him, and that in someway if all I accomplish is learning this language while I am here it will be for His glory.  Some days I think I've done pretty well, and then the next day comes and I can't seem to remember what I've learned.  It is hard to keep going with language each day and I appreciate your pr on that issue.  The past few weeks have also been tough because we seem to be going without electricity more often, and in the past two weeks we've gone about 4 days in total without water.  It is getting hotter and hotter here with each passing week, and having no water and no electricity makes it even more unbearable to sleep at night.  Today is one of the days we have been going without water.  Please be pring that this situation would improve here. 

So many of you have walked this journey with me from the beginning to now, and some of you are probably struggling along with me as I seek Him out on where I am supposed to be realizing that I'm in a place that doesn't fit exactly.  Thank you for struggling with me, and please be hitting your knees asking that He would soon open up the place where I am to be for Him in this term. 

Again I ask that you would be lifting up this area of the world.  The famine and drought in the country on our border is getting worse, and this country seems to also be experiencing some of the effects of it.  Be pring for the team here that I am currently serving with.  Ask that He would give them more ways to effectively reach the people here for Him, and that everyone here would remember that we do nothing.  Our work is as filthy rags, and the only way anything we do is of value is if we join Him in His Work.  Pr that all of us here would daily remember that He is the one working, He is the one drawing people to Himself, He is the one bringing people into the family, He is the onlyone healing the sick, feeding the hungry, and redeeming this place.  We have no power, and everything we are is to be from Him.  Ask that we would remember that, and ask that we would represent Him to the people here.  It is easy to take the credit when people are so thankful, but please pr that we would never do that.  Ask that we would give all the glory and honour back to Him every single time.

Please keep lifting up my future spouse and help mate, and I ask that you would lift me up in this that I would not lose hope over this, but trust Him.  The enemy has a way of beating me down over this, and I ask that you would pr that I would not believe his lies.  Ask that I would also remain faithful in trusting Him for a transfer and believing Him for this.  Please be asking that He would show me how to run again.  Thank you for pr......you do not know how valuable it is!  Thank you too for wanting to send me packages.  If anyone else would like to do this please let me know at racfarmer@mailboxwiz.com and I'll send you a list. 

Rachel

Learning to Walk with Him even in The Shadow

I am reading My Utmost for His Highest.  I have read this many times and many years before, yet every time I read it, it's like reading it for the first time.  Dad really did seem to bless Mr. Chambers with a lot of sage advice through His Word.  Anyway, I am learning how to trust Him when I can't really see Him when He is in Shadow and my days are painful.  I don't know how many of you are learning to trust Him like this or if you have in the past.  If you are learning how to follow Him even when you can only see His shadow, or when your vision of Him is shadowed and dim....press on.  May we learn to lift one another up as we go through these times.

Thank you for so many of you saying that you will pr for my future husband and helpmate.  I pr that you will be diligent in this with me even on days when it seems petty and silly keep pr for him and I to meet in this year.  Thank you too for pring for a transfer for me.  Please continue to lift this up.  I am still waiting on word from my leaders.

I want to also ask that you would continue to pr for this part of the word....The Horn of Africa.  Even though I may not be settling down here, He does have children here in desperate need of your pr.  In April 2012 it is the goal of the Horn that we will have 1,000,000 people pring for this area of the world.  The area is war torn, stricken by famine and drought, poor, forgotten, and desperatly in need of Him.  The amazing thing is that many are coming to Him.....keep pring for the family to grow!  I would like to challenge you to become one of these 1,000,000 people pring for the Horn by April.  Also be pring over possible trips that will began to come available to increase pr for this part of the World.  The campaign for all of this is called Dark2Light.  If you are interested in knowing more e-mail me at racfarmer@mailboxwiz.com

Continue to lift me up, but above that begin lifting up the people of the Horn asking for them to come into the family.

Rachel

Thank you for your Pr

I wanted to post and let you know that when we all come together and pr for each other things happen.  My meetings with my leaders went very well; however, I still request your pr on all of this because my fear is that it will all now be pushed under the rug and forgotten.  Please be asking that my leaders would keep the situation and my place and position in the forefront of their minds, and ask that He would direct them in what to do and where I need to be to flourish and fully serve Him these 3 years.

I returned to Camel Land from the capital on Tuesday, and it has been difficult to come back.  I desperately need your pr to continue here until He opens up the next place and position.  I ask that you would pr I would have His attitude and His joy even when I am struggling.

I also want to be somewhat vunerable here on an issue that many of you know I have struggled with since I returned from my jman term overseas.  I have long struggled with the issue of my singleness, and why He hasn't brought my husband into my life yet.  I always thought that to delay going back overseas because I was still single was a selfish and petty thing to do, yet in all honesty I doubted my own opinions on this.  I often found myself trying to push this opinion on my friends at Southwesteren and elsewhere.  I want to apologize for my arogance on all of that over the years.  One thing that He has made very clear to me upon my arrival in Camel Land is that He never intended for me to return to the field single.  I was always afraid that if I listened to that still small voice telling me to just wait a little longer that I would never get back overseas because up to this point it seems like I will never meet Him.  However, I am beginning to understand that I need to trust Him fully on this and I haven't been.

All of that to say I'm not saying I would prefer not be single, but that HE has told me clearly I am not meant to be overseas again single.  In all of this I want to ask that you would seriously consider partnering in pr with me over this issue.  I am pring that in this year from July 2011 to July 2012 He would bring my husband into my life.  I know this may seem bold to put on my blog, but I am learning if we are open with one another on things we fully experience the power of pr, and we fully experience how He desires to work among us as a body.  Please consider partnering with me in this very personal issue.

Keep pring for me on being transferred and put into a position for these three years where I can fully serve Him with the abilities He has given me, and where I won't be in misery for the next 3 years.  Pr that I will also keep Him as my focus, and the one audience I am to serve.

Rachel

Two Months and Counting

Some of you know that these past two months have been extremely difficult.  Some of you do not know this, and I am sorry I have kept you in the dark.  I have not wanted to write or send out a mass e-mail because of everything going on, and me not knowing how to share.  I still don't want to divulge everything on here, but I would ask that you be lifting me up in pr; particularly on Sept. 5th.  I have a meeting with my leaders here, and it is a meeting that I hope will open some doors for me.  HE knows the doors that need to be opened, so I ask that you would pr for them be open.  Ask that HE would give me the words to say, and that HE would give my leaders the ears to hear and hearts to understand.  Specifically be pr on Monday, Sept. 5th around 1pm which would be around 3:00am, 4:00am, or 5:00am for most of you.  Even if you miss that time pr for me anyway that day, that He would open up a place for me to be in that fits me and where I can serve this term well without losing who I am in Him.

Thank you all for lifting me up these first 2 months.  I am so glad that it is now 2 months instead of 1.  It seems more managable to me to have 2 under my belt instead of one.  Thank you for lifting up my running issue.  Unfortunately I have only been able to run twice in the 8 weeks I've been here.  Please keep lifting that up.  Part of my issue in running here is that it's not alone time here......in this place one is never alone, and instead of being stress relieving it tends to add to.  Please be asking that something would happen He would make a way for this to be alleviated so I can run as a means of stress release/relief.

Currently I am in the captial city for a few days of restocking and rest.  I have been here since Wednesday (the 31st) and I return to Camel Land on Tuesday (Sept. 6th).  Please be pr for me on that too.  The city fits me so much better than Camel Land.  Anyway, thank you so much for your pr, and the outpouring of people wanting send to packages.  If anyone would still like to do that please contact me at westoeastrf@yahoo.com and I'll send you the information you need to do that.

Rachel