So how are you doing? Is there "a light at the end of the tunnel?" )))
"Proverbs 3 says: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."
Be patient. God knows what He's doing. God knows what is best for you. He can see the end result. You can't. All those problems, heartaches, difficulties and delays -- all the things that make you ask "why" -- one day it will all be clear in the light of God's love.
But for now, we're learning to trust God." From the Bible study plan on YouVersion
I hope for you it's the same as for me: the quarantine brought blessings to me or, saying it differently, it brought new possibilities which i'm grateful to God for.
Did you know that a Chinese word "crisis" has two meanings: danger and possibilities? So in the beginning of the quarantine I felt worried, troubled, anxiety but then the Lord gave me good possibilities due to the quarantine :)
For example, last time I told you a bit already about the life coaching training that I had with my teammates and that helped us to be more united and to understand better each other.
Life coaching - it is an art of how to help people in different spheres of their lives (marriage, health, spiritual growth etc) and in their goals' achievements, it is an art to ask right questions, to be a motivator and an encouragement for them. If there's no quarantine, i wouldn't have such a possibility to do coaching with the parents from Sport Kids, with different athletes, with the church's friends etc.
Picture below is from my coaching with an athlete (due to confidentiality I can't tell her name) She is on the isolation, at home with her relatives.
Also we continue communicating through the popular social network ZOOM - we have team meetings, prayer meetings, Bible studies with the athletes and we started to study the book of Colossians with our team.
Due to the quarantine God taught me and continues to teach how to be active but not to be ahead of God, how to give chances to others to be initiative and to come on their own to the decisions and to the conclusions, how to not rush to give advice, how to give myself to God so that His strength would work and not mine through my skills and experience, how to give control to God and to let it go and so on.
Also I had a possibility first time since 5 years ago to spend time with my relatives (but with my nephew and my sister only) It was a time of joy and of difficulties. Each one of them has serious problems and they didn't repent truly, unfortunately. But the Lord taught me how to accept them, how to continue be patient and to love with an unconditional love.
Please continue praying for my communication with my disciple Masha, for her heart. Praise God they can now walk outside and not to be at home all the time. I tried to continue teaching the parables of Jesus with Masha but now it's not so often.
I continue teaching English some athletes girls. Now it's more of the boxing girls who want to know English :)
Pyjama party for the athletes - celebrating the end of a strict quarantineI continue teaching English some athletes girls. Now it's more of the boxing girls who want to know English :)
Please pray for:
1) the Lord would continue to use me and my team in this art of coaching;
2)the Lord would bless further online sport kids practices and also personal trainings of our volunteers;
3) the Lord would bless me and my team in this season of raising support and would send those people who would be open to support us and to be ministry partners;
4) the Lord would bless financially and would guide in my health issues - i need to have a surgery to remove the plates in my leg as i feel them and it's a discomfort after the sports activities; also i need to treat my teeth and i need other health issues to be resolved;
5) for the repentance of my family to accept Gospel - my brother Valera (his adaptation, he got back from his 8 months work at the cruise liner), for my nephew Vova (he can't fly out to his work abroad), for my sister Ira (she needs a job and a wisdom in how to deal with the finances)
The Lord continues to keep us connected ;-) Thank you for your prayers and support!
What other prayer requests do you have? Please keep sending them, i'll be happy to encourage or help you through the prayers at least.
With love in Christ,
Anya ;-)
