It’s pretty incredible how God knows exactly what we need at exactly the right moment.
These last few months have been pretty busy (and by pretty busy I mean very busy) so lately I’ve felt, well….tired.
It was the end of a 5 day crusade on our base and I was feeling super tired and worn out and then I remembered ‘the conference is coming, yay!’
We went to a YWAM Caribbean conference in Punta Cana from May 5-10th and let me tell you….it was SO amazing! I was so immersed in the presence of God for 5 whole days and it was exactly what I needed to be renewed and refreshed. I had the privilege of meeting people from different bases all over the Caribbean and forming new friendships. To be honest, I didn’t go with much expectation of an incredible encounter with God. I really thought I would just be relaxing on the beach and sleeping in air conditioning all day….oh and I knew there would be hot water, so that was on my mind too. These were all great things, I mean REALLY great, but after the first day of worship and a teaching I started getting really excited for all of the things we would be doing and learning about.
This conference paved the way for me to enter into a new level of intimacy with God. I began to feel His presence in a new way. I distinctly remember walking down one of the paths and saying “God, I actually feel you with me right now, I know you are here…ready to talk to me!” It was a feeling of something greater, something new and beautiful starting in my life.
I do believe that God used this conference to speak to me, to sort of wake me up in a sense and show me where to go next. He didn’t need the conference, though. I didn’t need to go to Punta Cana to find God in the middle of my weariness- I could have had that right here in St. Marc. Intimacy with God is something that has to be pursued daily. It’s not something we can only find at weekend trips to a conference or going to hear a speaker, it’s something we can run towards and have every day with the Lord no matter where we are. I need to remember that. I need to remember that I can’t use work or tiredness as an excuse for lack of quiet times with God. The truth is; when I am tired He gives me strength, when I am frustrated He gives me joy, when I am feeling lost He takes my hand. God will not leave me in my trials.
This is what I am called to do; to seek His face when I’m in housekeeping or the office or staffing a school. Whether I am in Canada or Haiti or anywhere else in the world God is still the same God. He still has the same love and grace; He always has every answer in His hand.
I am going to be staffing the upcoming DTS in July so please keep me in your prayers as I prepare for that. There are a lot of details that go into running a DTS so the rest of the staff and I will need lots of God’s strength and creativity. I am SO excited for what God has in store for me and I can’t wait to take all of these truths and run with them; not looking to the right or left, but only looking at Him and giving Him my everything.
One thing I ask from the Lord this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple.
~Ps 27:4
These last few months have been pretty busy (and by pretty busy I mean very busy) so lately I’ve felt, well….tired.
It was the end of a 5 day crusade on our base and I was feeling super tired and worn out and then I remembered ‘the conference is coming, yay!’
We went to a YWAM Caribbean conference in Punta Cana from May 5-10th and let me tell you….it was SO amazing! I was so immersed in the presence of God for 5 whole days and it was exactly what I needed to be renewed and refreshed. I had the privilege of meeting people from different bases all over the Caribbean and forming new friendships. To be honest, I didn’t go with much expectation of an incredible encounter with God. I really thought I would just be relaxing on the beach and sleeping in air conditioning all day….oh and I knew there would be hot water, so that was on my mind too. These were all great things, I mean REALLY great, but after the first day of worship and a teaching I started getting really excited for all of the things we would be doing and learning about.
This conference paved the way for me to enter into a new level of intimacy with God. I began to feel His presence in a new way. I distinctly remember walking down one of the paths and saying “God, I actually feel you with me right now, I know you are here…ready to talk to me!” It was a feeling of something greater, something new and beautiful starting in my life.
I do believe that God used this conference to speak to me, to sort of wake me up in a sense and show me where to go next. He didn’t need the conference, though. I didn’t need to go to Punta Cana to find God in the middle of my weariness- I could have had that right here in St. Marc. Intimacy with God is something that has to be pursued daily. It’s not something we can only find at weekend trips to a conference or going to hear a speaker, it’s something we can run towards and have every day with the Lord no matter where we are. I need to remember that. I need to remember that I can’t use work or tiredness as an excuse for lack of quiet times with God. The truth is; when I am tired He gives me strength, when I am frustrated He gives me joy, when I am feeling lost He takes my hand. God will not leave me in my trials.
This is what I am called to do; to seek His face when I’m in housekeeping or the office or staffing a school. Whether I am in Canada or Haiti or anywhere else in the world God is still the same God. He still has the same love and grace; He always has every answer in His hand.
I am going to be staffing the upcoming DTS in July so please keep me in your prayers as I prepare for that. There are a lot of details that go into running a DTS so the rest of the staff and I will need lots of God’s strength and creativity. I am SO excited for what God has in store for me and I can’t wait to take all of these truths and run with them; not looking to the right or left, but only looking at Him and giving Him my everything.
One thing I ask from the Lord this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple.
~Ps 27:4