Ben's Blessing Blog

From the Book "Puritan Prayers"

It's the last night in Tennessee. It's been great being together with my family again. Here is a picture of the last sunset and our family devotions from tonight. I think we were singing a song there. :) We then watched a video of some family that has four girls and two guys and the parents trained them to live a godly life. Good story, nice family. Well, I need to get my bags packed now because we are heading back to PA in the morning. Have a Good Day Everyone!

BenH

I've noticed this command from Christ often this past month as I've been reading the Bible in my devotions. God wants his followers to be active in moving ourselves out of what we are currently doing and moving or going ourselves to those who need to hear the gospel message. The love which Jesus has shown to us is unbelievable and Christ simply wants us to also give up ourselves as he did and give everyone the opportunity to be saved. Don't think I'm just pointing the finger at you, but what actions have you been taking to speak to someone who needs to be saved. Do you have the Love for others as the Love which Christ showed for us on the cross?
Also, to add to this, God may have not led you specifically to go to another country to preach, but there is a task which everyone can be apart of and that is praying to the Lord of the Harvest that he will send forth more laborers into his harvest. So today, Go, and pray for others to go.

BenH

Well, I'm back, and alive, breathing and hmmm, yup all the above. After my flight back to the states I had an entire day and a half to unpack and then repack to leave for family vacation. We left on Thursday night at 3AM. Yup, bright and early. Since I was already used to being up at that time of night from being in Thailand I was able to put in some driving hours, but then I started getting tired and needed to hand the driving back over to my dad.
The plane flight was great. I had the opportunity to talk to two different people on my way over about the Bible. There was another guy who I would've tried to talk to, but he was an older Chinese guy and he didn't know much English, in fact I needed to help interpret some of his English to the Stewardess which was quite funny. AND YOU KNOW WHAT. There wasn't ANY crying babies on that flight, I don't even think I heard a wimper. I still couldn't sleep, but hey at least it was quiet. Don't get me wrong, I like kids and babies, but being on a very very long plane flight with them is not my most desired experience.... Just being honest
In my devotions this morning I was reading the verse in Matthew 26:41... It says, "Watch and Pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." I don't know about the rest of you who read this blog, but as for me, my hearts desire is to follow exactly what the Lord wants me to do and to not fail. Unfortunately, like the disciples here I feel like a failure. The christian life sounds simple enough. God laid it out in his word, but I have this stinkin flesh to contend with and it gets me of course at times. I've made enough decisions that were dumb and by this time I wish I had a list to follow each day that told me the decisions to make. I know that may sound boring, but I sometimes think that way because then I wouldn't make mistakes. *Sigh* I know thats not going to happen, so in order to make the right decisions I really need to follow this verse and "Watch and Pray". I agree my spirit is willing, but also my flesh is weak.
So bottom line here, Be watchful, be alert, don't go to sleep because it's when your letting your mind waft through space that the devil has the opportunity to put his thoughts in your mind. Take each thought into captivity and pray about it. Watch to see what the Lord's will is, be alert, attentive and Pray always. Challenging thought, well at least for me it is. I know ya'll are little angels out there, lol J/K

As some of you know I made an iPhone App called "My Prayer Lists" and the Lord has been faithfully selling my app and taking care of my needs. I think more special to me though has been the compliments I've received from it. I can't share them all, but I'll just share the one I received yesterday morning:

"I just want to say that your Prayer Lists program has revolutionized my spiritual walk with God. I have never been so consistent, intentional and specific in my prayers, and I feel closer to God that I ever have before. I show all of my friends, and I can't stop talking about it!"

It was quite a blessing to read that. Well, I apologize for the long post, but I hope that it was a blessing to ya'll. Have a Great Day!

Bye!
Ben

It's hard to believe it's been a month. A MONTH! The time sure went
fast. The Lord has been so kind to have given me this trip. Going on
this trip has encouraged the burden the Lord has put on my heart to be
a missionary. Nat and Bro. Tom have been a blessing to me as I've had
some good Biblical conversations with them. It is always a blessing to
me to be able to spiritual conversations with people who I know have a
priority to walk with the Lord. This past Sunday 'by accident' I ended
up going with Bro. Lange, David and some other guys to a Nepalese
church. I was able to play the guitar with Nat and Bro. Nadaskay and
then Bro. Lange preached a salvation message. I am looking forward to
seeing what is going to happen with their desire to see a church
started.
I'm on the plane to Hong Kong now and the Lord has given me a good
flight so far. Just had a good cup of coffee and am enjoying a very
nice seat. I can see first class right through the curtain :) hehe.
Nooooo, I'm not jealous, I'm just being thankful I am toward the front
of the plane and not all the way in the back. :) It surprised me when
I got on the plane that I only had to walk a few steps and then my
seat was smack in front of me.
It was sad to see my friends see me off. It was really sweet of them
all to give up a few hours in order to see me off. Bro. Tom has been
an excellent example of giving of his time. He didn't have to do
anything for me, but he willingly drove me around to any place I
needed to get to and believe me, it is not easy or quick getting
through Bangkok. Bro. Tom said he hasn't had to drive through New
York. I haven't driven through Bangkok or New York, but to me the
traffic and driving in Bangkok would be so much harder to deal with
than NY. Bro. Gaudet
Well, I just heard the announcement that I need to packup my laptop
because we will be landing soon. I look forward to seeing my family
soon and also seeing my church family. Thank you to everyone that has
been praying for me because your prayers mean sooooo much to me and
the only reason this trip was so successful was because of the prayers
everyone

Hello my wonderful Family!
It is Friday night! I can't believe it's the end of the week again!
It is hard to believe that I will fly out this upcoming Tuesday. The
time goes so quick. Nat and I are working fervently over the video
project :) There is a bit to do, so please pray we can get it finished
up. I went into town tonight with Nat, Anne, Pookie, Carolyn, Mr. &
Mrs. Gaudet. The main reason we went into town was because I needed to
get my suit checked out to make sure it was good to go. The guys there
were very helpful with helping me make decisions on what to get. As I
said before, it is hard for me to picture what a suit or shirt will
look like when it is just a sheet of cloth. I had basically the same
measurements as last time so that made things easier.
You've probably already heard, but Bro. Nadaskay is in town. Did you
send him in to check on me? LOL J/K . Ya, so it was good to see him
again and Monday night we will be having a singspiration since we've
got quite a few LVBCers here.
I'm not sure if I said this already, but I was at the border again
this week to unload the truck with all the boxes of literature. We
finished the work in about an hour. It was a very intense hour though.
It felt like multiple hours because of the work involved. Nat, Noah
and I were completely soaked in sweat by the time we were finished.
You may have seen some of the pictures on facebook. The boxes went all
the way to the top of the ceiling. We had to keep showing the guys how
to stack the boxes in a way so they don't fall over as they are
pulled off. Two of the guys did catch on and so we kept running boxes
all over and trying to keep everything organized. As we re-evaluated
the amounts of certain boxes we had to move some piles to other places
or add certain piles to others all the while trying to work with some
guys that didn't speak any English. We kept Noah busy translating for
us.
Well, I am back safe now and am in Bangkok running full speed :) Oh,
while we were in town today we stopped at a Mexican restaurant and the
food was excellent. We had a very good time talking and joking around.

I'm just about out of battery so I'm going to plug in my laptop and go
to bed here. Have a good night. I love you all!
Benjamin

Today has been a very wearisome day. I doubt I spelled that word right, but I think you may have guessed that I was trying to say I am tired. I want to write more, but my eyes are closing as I write this. Just check out Nats blog because from what I've seen has been doing a great job at posting updates. The internet was down yesterday and I was travelling and video taping almost the entire other day, so that is my lame excuse for my lack of writing (again) ;)

Thanks for checking out the blog,
cya
Benjamin