Appointment in Jerusalem is a book about Lydia Prince, written by her husband, Derek Prince. For those of you who are not familiar with either of these names, Derek Prince was a well-known minister who worked in Healings and Deliverance. Some of his family members still cary on his ministry in a form in the Carolinas.
So, this book is a man writing a woman's story. It's an amazing book! Except women and men are NOTHING alike! He writes of these extremely difficult situations she find herself in often. And...I read it thinking, "How is she not FREAKING out, losing her mind, a puddle of tears on the floor!?" Oh! Because she isn't telling the story! There are a few times, while reading, that I wondered if I was insane or not. I have dramatic emotional responses to nearly every thing I hear or see or experience. I'm very very female...I'm ok with it. It was really bizarre to not be reading that about Lydia Prince.
However, she was a woman of temendous faith! And not because anyone told her she should be.
She meets the Lord, doesn't know she's met Him, and then through a very fast series of events, discovers that she is meant to travel to the Holy Land! WILD! Anyone who thinks God isn't weird or silly, needs to read this! He really is WILD! Now Lydia was a Danish woman. This was the early twentieth century, and really a single Danish woman in her thirties would have had no business in Jeruasalem. So what she felt the Holy Spirit directing her to do, was to leave her land, family, job, all familiarity, and go to Jerusalem. WOW!!!
Everyone around her didn't get it. Boy, do I know how that feels! God likes to have us do things that make no sense. I firmly believe that. That's why there are so many verses about not leaning on our understanding, God knows what you need and will provide, cast your cares on Him. In other words: DON'T WORRY. HAHAHAHA. That's what we people do! We do it so well, there are innumerable conditions and syndromes and a myriad of other problems created that are "discovered" every year! Bless God, He is so much better than our reasoning!
I think I will end up writing more blogs about this subject and book...as I finish it and it bubbles up in me more and more...But for now, the thing that is jumping up and down in gut is that:
Even as immature teens struggle with liking themselves, we still have to fight that fight every day! To love what we love, to love who we are...and to do this without shame or concern. Lydia searched for something missing from her life, and found Jesus. Then He gave her something to love, that maybe a single, successful Danis woman shouldn't have loved. But it gave her joy. It made her smile. It challenged and excited her to love, among other things, JERUSALEM!
There's a divine reason we love what we love, that we like thing things we like...Roll with it! Don't pretent you don't like something that you like!
