By: Aleisha Marina Pienaar Today it is forty days until we leave for the Amazon jungle. "Forty" is a very significant number! It rained for forty days while Noah and his family were in the ark at the time of the Great Flood. Jesus spent forty days in the desert fasting, and overcoming the devil's temptations, before His ministry officially began. Moses spent forty days on the mountain when God was giving him the commandments, no food and no water. Also, the Israelites that left Egypt spent forty years in the desert before they entered the Promised Land. Basically, "forty" usually means a journey.
It's exciting to think that Emil and I will be stepping foot in the place that our hearts have longed for forty days from today. These forty days have certainly started with its challenges, but we are confident that God will continue to provide for and sustain us. And hey, we are loving every moment because we get to rest in His big and loving arms! God is so amazing. This is just a short message from us today. The next forty days will be great, exciting, scary, exhausting, confusing, empowering, busy, boring, everything and all of the above. We look forward to seeing what our Lord Jesus has in store for us! Continue to keep us in your prayers! We love you all.
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Emil & Aleisha PienaarWe are Missionaries who travel to the Amazon Jungle. Our home base is Dunedin, New Zealand. Our heart is to reach the unreached. Archives
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