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One of the staff members Chris says to me “it will be good to introduce yourself to all the brothers before the devotional time, and explain why you are here.” So I stood up and shared for almost half an hour about myself and the studio, more importantly about our vision for the orphanage in China and added “to be honest, I don’t know why I am here...I heard a voice from the Holy Spirit a week ago that I should come to Hong Kong...so here I am...I wanted to be obedient to God, I don’t think God brought me here to teach, but to Learn...”

This was with the Nepalese group. We spent an hour just all quietly reading the Bible and searching the scripture. My jet lag is still affecting me so I was trying really hard to focus. To be honest, an hour went by really fast. Funny how I can’t even spend like 5 minutes in God’s word back in New York, but here with a group of men who are so on fire for Jesus, an hour is like 5 minutes.

The night ended with worship and music. If only you could hear the voices and the faces on these men. We sang christians songs in English but also in their native Nepalese language. There were brothers on the acoustic guitar, the bass and cajon drum.

Unlike a lot of christians who just go to church on Sundays in the states and call themselves “Christians”, these are men for who either Jesus is real, or He’s not. Either Jesus is the one who can deliver them from drug addiction, when the world has failed them, and they have failed themselves, or He cannot. For them either Jesus is who He says He is, or He’s not. They have experienced God’s deliverance, they have seen Jesus do the impossible, they have experienced the freedom and joy that only Jesus can give.

I’m reminded of King David in the Bible who had everything material wise in this world. Yet despite being a king and having everything anyone could ever want, he only wanted one thing.

Bible Verse

“One thing I ask, this only do I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and seek him in his temple.”

Psalms 27:4