God's Plans are Better

The other day it dawns on me how God has really done something great in South Africa the past couple of months, and what He has done is even greater than all the World Cup activities. The focus in South Africa right now is on the nations coming to South Africa for the World Cup. With WC there are 32 nations represented and almost 6 weeks worth of games are played.
Yet, before the nations came here for the WC, they first came for the Global Day of Prayer this year. GDOP began 10 years ago and is on Pentecost every year. No person planned that Pentecost Sunday 2010 would come before the WC and no man knew when GDOP began that 10 years later South Africa would be hosting the WC. God knew. He had a plan in action long ago.
Some amazing things....at the GDOP people from over 90 nations came to pray. So, prior to the world's event of WC God first sent 3x as many nations to South Africa for prayer. In the WC one team will win. At the GDOP every nation here went home with the fire of the Holy Spirit.
GDOP may have seemed smaller than the WC, the whole world did not take as much of a notice of it, but I know that the spiritual impact of that day will resound for all eternity.
So, there you have it....God's plans for South Africa are even better than all the World Cup plans currently taking place. God is doing great things here. I am continually humbled and honored that He placed me here for such a time as this to be right in the middle of His great work at this time in this place. We serve an awesome God. We are loved by an awesome God. It is so wonderful to love Him in return and walk with Him!