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iGo Global Staff • Jan 15, 2010

n1440990408_30408993_7165Leslie is an iGo Alum who has led teams for us and volunteered at Base Camp. She is currently attending Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK. Through her interaction with international students there, she befriended Ami, an exchange student from Japan. Through conversation and friendship, Leslie got the chance to share the Gospel with Ami, give her an English and Japanese Bible, and start a weekly Bible study with her. Below is an email Leslie sent about her Bible Study with Ami:

Thursday Ami and I had coffee-mochas, but we didn’t drink them until we left the coffee shop because we were drinking in the living water – and that water was so refreshing, satisfying, quenching, delicious, and life-giving. The first question Ami asked me was the difference between the Father and the Son. After answering her question we started reading in John. Before we could do that though, she needed to know who John was. Then, as we started reading she needed to know that the John we were reading about in the first chapter was not the same John writing. We went verse by verse from the first chapter through the middle of chapter 3. Sometimes there were questions of English, other times questions of the Book, and many times both. It was one of the best hours of my life. You should’ve seen the look on her face when we read that Jesus turned the water to wine! I thought to myself, “WE’RE ONLY ON CHAPTER 2! WAIT’LL SHE READS THE REST!!!” Oh and when we read how much He loves us in 3:16, I wish you could’ve seen the tears fill her eyes! When we read it she pointed to the word, “whoever.” She didn’t know what it meant. She knows now. Anyone. Any person. Everyone. Every person who believes…

Only the Father knows the condition of her heart and He is the only one causing the seed in her heart to grow. Whether or not she believes yet, I do not know…but I do know it won’t be long! Pray for Ami, we will read again this next week. Pray that He would draw her to His Book before then, that waiting until the start of the semester would be too long – that she would be thirsty now. Pray against the lies the enemy will try to throw her way to choke that seed. And pray for her to know Him. And thank Him for His deep love for us – that He will bring a girl all the way from Japan to podunk Stillwater, OK for this purpose!!! Oh He Is So MIGHTY To Save!

I can’t wait to read with Ami again. It is all so new to her and it is all miraculous and awesome and exciting and wonderful and mind-blowing and earth-shattering! Reading with her convicts me as I see the excitement in her eyes! How often I just read over those miracles without thinking about them! Father, forgive me! I am so thrilled to read with her again because I see it coming alive for her, which causes it to come alive for me once again as well. I will say that it is exhausting reading with Ami, but it is joyful exhaustion. It’s like football, (I’ve never really played football but I imagine it’s like football, haha.) During the game the players are having a blast pouring out all of their energy to win. But afterwards those boys need a shower, nap, and carbs. Reading with her propelled me into the Book myself. I had to be filled again. Are you allowing Him to fill you? If not I challenge you to let Him fill you. And if you are, are you turning that cup upside down, pouring yourself out? If so, I challenge you also to let Him fill you more, that your life may be a constant overflow – that as quickly as He is filling your cup it is overflowing into those around you.

And pray for all the Amis living in Japan. There are millions. Just as Ami had no knowledge before we met, they too have NO KNOWLEDGE! There are millions of people dying daily around this world – not people that rejected this hope, but people that never knew that this hope exists!

Isaiah 44:19 “ No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, ‘I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down before a block of wood!'”

I pray that just as Isaiah had a revelation of God (ch.6), and his natural response to the Father’s love was to say, “Send Me!” that this would be our response as well. Ask Him what this means for you and your family and your life. John tells us to “Go and make disciples of all nations…” Maybe giving towards those that are going and lifting up those who are going is what He has for you (I believe He has this for all of us). Maybe He wants you to GO. Ask the Lord of the Harvest to raise up many workers for His field. For the fields are ripe for harvest, it is the workers that are few.

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