This is a blog from Chelsea Powell of Team Uganda. This is what it means to have faith. 

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We made  it! Our team is perfect. I can't wait to see what the Lord does in and through us in the next four months. God is so good to have already started a good work in each of us in these past four days. Whether it be having to work as a team, discussing our differences or praying, our God is bonding us in Him.

The past couple months before leaving, the Lord kept speaking to me about the dead being raised. Not only spiritually dead, but the physically dead coming to life to show the glory of the Lord. Jesus said at Lazarus' tomb, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" Oh God, I believe!!!  The past two days, God has been showing my teammate, Ashlee, visions of us raising the dead and sitting next to the sick and them being healed and restored. This is who God is. This is my expectation- for God to be God. My expectation for myself is to glorify the Son, Jesus Christ. As He is glorified, the Lord pours out His Spirit revealing His glory.

We were having a session yesterday and Jimmy, the Real Life leader said, "Uganda team, you may be in hospitals where people are about to die from AIDS and have no hope. You can give them that hope." He said this in the midst of us describing what the gospel means to us. I always think of Jesus saying on the cross, "It is finished." He conquered everything by consuming the wrath of God that we deserved. What a message of hope!  The Holy Spirit overwhelmed me as I heard Jimmy say, "YOU can give them that hope." Oh, that Jesus would be glorified in the earth. Is it not the Father's heart for Jesus to be glorified and His children to walk into the Kingdom, this kingdom of FREEDOM.

Jesus, receive the reward of Your suffering- even through me.