Letters on the road to Vietnam Letter #2

August 13, 2025

A path of obedience is overwhelming because of the stuff packed inside your heart. You see the door. You're excited even expectant about the door. You believe you're beyond ready to go through the door that God has prepared for you.

But you forgot you have a heart. That heart has a mind, and at times a personality of its own, picking when it agrees and disagrees with the way forward. Proverbs 4:23 “above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

The road to Vietnam begins now with a quiet unseen battle within the heart. The questions are simple, straight forward: “To believe this is God directed” or “to not trust God is in any of  it."

Now the war begins, sitting before God are you and your enemy, you, debating the decision, facing the emotions, arguing the Scriptures. "Is He God” or “Is He not God”? Is your devotion and promise compromised because you are struggling? No, I say, this is what it really looks like in the unseen to walk out Psalm 46:10 He says, "Be Still, and Know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

I'm not having fun but I am exhilarated by this challenge because it is forcing me to seek the Holy Spirit and require me to sit in quiet counsel and guidance. How even will I know when to move against my enemy, myself, and when not? My need to be the one "doing” is being revealed. I am not as dependent as I believed. Maybe the path to Vietnam is a sieve and not so much a walkway. To really "see" clearly requires more and more of Kenya to fall away willingly. Last thought, I am drawing closer and closer to believing the mood to Vietnam is really a test of where does my loyalty lie.

Luke 22: 31,32 is consuming my thoughts right now: “And the lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat! But I have prayed for thee, that thy path fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.”

Tread carefully. A cry for: “What is my calling, my purpose!" is packed with way more heart traps than you were ever aware of.

Thank you for supporting me as I make my way to Vietnam. Your prayers, financial support, and shares are appreciated.

Kenya

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