Hey there! It’s me again!
Currently, I’m packing to leave Jordan and head to our next country, I’ve been reflecting a lot on my time in Osh. Osh is a city filled with so many God stories and I cannot possibly talk enough about how amazing my time there was. The people there forever will have a large part of my heart. The story I wanted to focus on was actually from my last day in Osh. My ministry was mainly ask the Lord (ATL) ministry so I would go where the Lord guided me. Most days I was in a small coffee shop reading the Bible or drawing. On my last day, I met with two girls (who I never talked to before). They invited me to their table and asked me many questions about who I was and what I do. We talked for two and a half hours, and during that time one of the girls asked about my joy. She pointed out that every time she saw me in the coffee shop I was smiling as I was reading/drawing. So I took that opportunity and told her about Jesus, which lead to me sharing the ENTIRE gospel! She was very open to the idea, but her friend was not. By the end of our conversation I had to go back to my home to pack. We hugged goodbye and the girl who was open to the gospel cried saying goodbye.
Her friend offered to walk me back home and I excitedly accepted the offer. The walk from the coffee shop to my home was about 30-40 minutes. During our walk, I would keep bringing up Jesus and she would change the conversation. Finally, after 20 minutes of these conversations, she got frustrated that I brought Jesus up once more and yelled “I don’t understand you!” I kept calm as I told her “that’s okay.” She continued saying that she didn’t understand why I kept talking about this Jesus. So I smiled as I explained that when you are so in love with something and spend so much time with it, then you talk about it all the time. Like how parents constantly talk about their newborn child. Or how teenagers talk about their favorite books or artists. Not wanting to accept that she continued to challenge me. She asked many questions thinking she would stump me, but the Lord provided every answer without hesitation.
Finally, after countless questions, she finally asked how I was staying so calm and patient as she was yelling in my face and my answer was “Jesus.” She calmed down at that answer but still didn’t want to accept the answers I was giving. Before getting to our home she told me she would text me more questions to stump me, and I told her that I would love that.
After walking away I saw what the Lord was doing. While Muslims can be very strict about their religion they also really do want to know more about Christianity. There’s so much that they don’t understand, yet they’ve misconceived so much about who Jesus is.
The same as what the American church does. In America, we get focused on what we have to do, we forget that he has actually done it all for us. All we have to do is sit and listen. I’m one of those people who get caught up in what I think Jesus wants that I forget he just wants us. Just listening to where he’s guiding you will put you exactly where you’re supposed to be. If I didn’t listen to him in the first place I never would’ve met those two girls, nor would they have gotten to see the pure joy of the Lord on my face all those days before. It’s amazing what listening can do, but it truly is all we need to do.
“Give ear, and hear my voice, give attention, and hear my speech.”
– Psalm 28:23 ESV
Thank you for reading this far! As I said in the beginning, I’m leaving Jordan! But stay tuned because I have a lot to say about this country AND the five-day prayer burn we did before leaving Kyrgyzstan!
See you in the next blog!
Kaili Farnsworth <3
