Hello Brides! I’m so excited to begin submitting more PRs!!! There’s so much to share and be thankful for since Sara and I parted. We thought our LAL Tour had ended, but it really hadn’t. Instead, He took us on individual journeys to be encouraging women with who the Lord placed in our path! Sara will share her path soon, but today she is traveling again as I’ve been!
Let me begin with my incredible opportunity to meet Cherie in the Philippines. When you look at the growth of our Spanish ministry and of course the firm establishment of our Portuguese ministry you just can’t help but want the same for every language!! Our hearts were open to whatever He had planned for our meeting and goodness did He come through. First off, Cherie is no longer using her iPad to translate, but now has a computer that the ministry purchased for her after my visit!! Then as you know, Cherie is nearly ready to give birth to a beautiful baby boy but having been overwhelmed with her current situation was desperate for a like-minded woman. The more we talked about our HH the more excited we got!!!
Honestly, it blows my mind when I get to sit down and hear the testimonies of these women who have been transformed in such a way that they’re no longer recognizable!!
“They looked to Him and were radiant…” Psalm 34:5
He gave me such a lovely stay in Manila and I’m full of anticipation for my next meeting with Sandra and Vivian in Singapore, which I will share more about in my next PR!! Currently, I am in Japan, having sown a WW and a WM to a newly engaged couple, my cousin that many of you who have been here awhile may remember.
After hearing of my cousin’s sudden engagement over video chat, which by the way made me cry because she and I had prayed for this very moment all our lives and it happened suddenly! Amazing. I told her that a flight from Manila was only four hours by plane and maybe He’d provide a way to see her and meet her fiance!
We found a fantastically priced ticket, and usually I ask if the schedule works for the other person, but in this case, I didn’t because my mom and I sensed not to. As soon as I sent my itinerary to my cousin, suddenly she wasn’t sure about the dates and felt she’d be very busy and even suggested I stay at my uncle and aunt’s most of the time. It hurt quite a bit as I was making this trip for her and her fiance.
As always, that day I just gave everything over to my HH and He immediately released the pain I was feeling. But then, after sharing the recent news with my mother the following day, just talking about it again made the pain and all together bewilderment of my cousin’s response resurfaced. Have to pause and interject something.
Can you believe that counselors work this way —encouraging you to talk about your problems? Dig up the past and even tell people how they’ve hurt you? Only to destroy relationships and leave you feeling worse!! Yikes!! So far from the bible and proof, it doesn’t work!!! “I will guard my ways That I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle While the wicked are in my presence.” Psalm 39:1 Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips. Psalm 141:3 so instead we decided something was up and to get excited about it!!
I contacted my uncle and he too was at first excited about my visit, but then thought maybe I shouldn’t stay so long, which is not like him at all since he continually asks when am I coming and that their home is for me to stay at any time and for as long as I want. That’s when I KNEW the enemy was trying to keep me from something because I would not have purchased the ticket if any of this was revealed beforehand.
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. —Matthew 5:25
So following this principle, I let my cousin Erica know that I thought it was a “great idea” to stay with her parents and wrote to my uncle, “Yes you’re right, it’s a good plan to shorten my stay!” That’s when everything changed!! Before I had a chance to write back, my mom sensed that she should check the flights so I could visit a longtime ministry friend (who’d sent me money to tithe from her) and when I did, I realized I was going to Singapore!!!
Yet, that was just the beginning of my double recompense! As soon as I landed, it was as if everyone in Japan couldn’t do enough for me!!!
Erica insisted on picking me up from the station, STAY with her the first few days and began scheduling more and more outings and dates to sleep at her apartment! Honestly, I’d let go and was excited to focus solely on my Love (my favorite thing to do every day), do online ministry work and be readily available for whatever the Lord had—but, boom, her attitude made a complete a one-eighty.
As my mom reminded me, I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t feel hurtful things but it’s how I respond to them that matters!! Once again, the Word is the Word, and it works, and there’s such joy in watching it happen!!
One evening while I was out with Erica and her elder sister Lisa for a girls night, an overwhelming desire came over me to explain why I was traveling. The women I had met, the purpose of the ministry, women now complete no matter restoration or not with their HH because I could tell Lisa didn’t understand! Even my testimony came up again! I know He spoke through me because when it’s Him, my heart is pounding so fast with a joy I can’t express, and she saw, and I think, she even felt it. She sat there wide-eyed in astonishment and said “WOW, Tara” and her entire demeanor changed after that and each time I’ve seen her since!!!
“They looked to Him and were radiant…” Psalm 34:5 NASB
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB
“For your Husband is your Maker, Whose name is the Lord of hosts” Isaiah 54:5 NASB
Now He’s LEAD Sara & Tara along their own routes.
So, once again, be sure to FOLLOW His brides individually until they meet again back in Turkey to continue the LALTour together again!
Sara Tara are on Instagram #LALBride
If you’re one of His brides too— consider meeting to fellowship with them along their Abundant Life Journey. Sara is on her way to Brazil, while Tara is touring Asia: the Philippines, Japan, Singapore—then onto Australia!!
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We can let you know the dates and locations of where they will each be and forward your email on to them.
MINISTRY NOTE: Tara and Sara left Italy, after living in Sicily resting with their HH and doing ministry work—then departed from Rome—to continue on their LALTours alone with Him.
If you’ve just joined following the Encourager blog, it began when Tara met Sara and began traveling, with their first country Athens, Greece!! (Acts 17:16) then flew up to Dublin, Ireland and then traveled north by train to Belfast, Ireland. Belfast is where Erin’s grandfather was born and immigrated from.
After Ireland, they crossed the Irish Sea by ferry and made a short stop in Glasgow before heading to Edinburgh, Scotland.
Then Sara Tara took the train down to London, England where are meeting at least 3 brides who’ve contacted us! One is Adele whose RMT you read last Saturday “Was I Sincere in the Apologies I Made to Him?” They are so excited to finally meet her!
Their first stop on the European continent was PARIS—where they hadn’t even planned to go! Yet He lovingly orchestrated a meeting with two brides in Paris, France and also another bride (and former minister) after traveling through Vienna, Austria. Saturday they were so excited to meet and spend time with Aimée in Slovakia!!
Last Friday our brides were in Venice, Italy then stopped in Florence and Pisa before heading to ROME (their final destination along their LALTour). For the next six weeks, they will rest physically and work from Sicily.
If there is ONE principle we repeat and follow it’s He LEADS ME…
Psalm 23: 1-3—
“The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He LEADS ME beside quiet waters. He restores my soul.”