The importance of Prayer and Gods desire to have a relationship with us!

God let me be your hands and your feet and let it all be for your Glory and not my own-- A constant prayer in my life.
Little did I know that you must always mean what you say:)
I have always had an odd fascination for Asia and it's beautiful people and culture. But I never knew the reasoning for it until I decided to go to Lee University, which happened to be a Cross Cultural school.
I wanted to visit China due to the fact I want to adopt from there. I have had the call to adopt for a few years now.
But God had other plans. The only tip available was to Thailand. It was in Asia so I took the trip.
I fell in love with the people, the genuine love these people had for others and also more than anything I had a pull to the lost Buddhist culture. I prayed and contemplated between Student Teaching in Africa or coming back to Thailand after visiting Chang Mai the past summer.
I felt in my spirit, through the guiding of the Holy Spirit living within me that I was to return to Thailand.
In the process of Student teaching God taught me many life lessons. One of which is that we must always live in the NOW and listen to how the Holy Spirit is guiding us in the NOW moments. Read Francis Chan’s “The Forgotten God.”
After returning to the States I felt that I had left part of my heart here in Thailand.
As I began to seek Gods face and faced that scary and tough question "What will I do after college" I felt a pull back to Asia. Nervous and also second guessing this calling I prayed intensely about picking up, packing up my entire life and moving to this crazy big place we like to call Bangkok, Thailand.
I was referred by the guiding of the Holy Spirit to the story of Moses when he was called to go to Pharaoh and tell him to let Gods people go. We know this story all too well in Exodus Chapter 2 on.
But it is wonderful how you can hear the same story more than once but God can pull out certain information and allow it to speak to your heart and soul in the situation you are in at the time. The Word is living and breathing and God is the answer to all questions.
This particular time I was drawn to several realizations. A. God uses not only normal people but also inadequate people in order to show those around them Gods Super Natural power and this is done for his Glory not our own.
Moses had just murdered an Egyptian before God appeared to him in the burning bush to call him to do a work such as this. And we say that we are inadequate and have made too many mistakes to be called by God?
B. I centered in on how Moses said to God ""Who am I, that I should go." This was a reoccurring question in my own mind about moving to Asia. What was Gods response to Moses? "I will be with you and this will be a sign to you that it is I who has sent you."
C. Even still Moses said "Oh Lord I have never been eloquent, neither in the past or the present. I am slow of speech and tongue" and my thoughts to God..How many weaknesses do I have Lord?
His response to Moses was "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Now GO and I will help you speak and teach you what to say."
God also sent Aaron as a mouth piece to help Moses and this is a lesson I have been learning in the present, which is that God does not expect you to do everything alone. He sets up helpers and we must learn to give some control over to those people God has places in our lives.

I heard GO and I came. I know that I do NOTHING without him and his guiding, helping hand. Thankfully..he says to us, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 2 Corinthians 12:9