A lot has happened in the past few days... here's a brief update!
About 5 months ago I applied for a school called Titus Project with YWAM in Arusha, Tanzania, Africa. It's a three month school where you learn how to teach the Inductive Bible Study Method and then you spend the last two months teaching and equipping pastors and leaders throughout Africa on how to study the Bible. Well... on Tues. I got the acceptance email! It starts Nov. 21, 2008 and goes through Feb. 21 2009.
About a month ago I applied for School of Biblical Studies and Titus project Staff with YWAM in Muizenburg, South Africa. This staffing position is a two year commitment. I really did not know what was going to be next in life and felt God challenging me to simply apply for this position only knowing that I'm called to Africa and trusting that God would reveal the rest. Well... Today I received and acceptance email from South Africa!
3 days ago I had a completely blank page of what my future was going to look like. I had no answers and nothing to hold onto, Now I have an idea of what the next two years might look like! Truly "waiting on God" really does prove to be the best thing a person could ever do. I'm so excited about this and all that God is revealing but I know that I can't hold onto these plans more than I hold onto God so I will rejoice in His blessings and faithfulness but I will keep waiting on Him!
Be blessed!
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Waiting on God
We've been going through the prophets as we are nearing the end of this school and one thing that God has been challenging me on is the concept and calling of "waiting on Him". What does it mean to truly wait on Him? How, when, where, and why?...We just finished the book of Micah yesterday and a verse that really stuck with me was 7:7 "But as for me; I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me."
The last couple of months God has been asking me to come and be with Him and to sit in silence and wait on Him, without talking, worshiping, praying, or even expecting an answer from Him in return. He has asked me to simply be with Him in silence, waiting, and knowing that He is enough to sustain my every need... even without words. Through this I've found that waiting on Him truly is a discipline. We are such busy people with busy minds, it really takes discipline to go with no expectation before God and to just be. He has asked me this question though "is it enough for you to just be with me? Do you have to come when you want something or need something? can you simply just be with me to be with me? To spend time with a friend?"
So, in response I have been with God, I have waited on Him and I will continue to. He has proved Himself to sustain and satisfy my every need without words. I have come to a new revelation of God's faithfulness, kindness, friendship and love. I have come to see that He already knows and understands my heart. I have come to a place where my heart so desires God and not just the "blessings/fruit" of God that I will take an hour out of my day just to sit in silence with my best friend. NO expectations, no worries/fears/anxieties, no questions asked or answers sought... simply silence with One who created me and wants to spend time with me. What an amazing feeling to rest in the arms of my Maker, to sit with the One who pursues me and finds joy in me. It is true... In His presence, I lack nothing.
I think Andrew Murray does a good job at expressing this truth in his book "Waiting on God":
"These all wait for You, that You may give them their food in due season..." (Psalm 104:27) It is God who gives all: let this truth enter deeply into our hearts. Until we fully understand all that is implied in our waiting on God, and until we have been able to cultivate the habit, let the truth enter our souls. Waiting continually on the one true God in entire dependence upon Him is the only true religion. It is the one unalterable and all-comprehensive expression of our true relationship to the One in whom we live. Let us resolve once and for all that it will be the one characteristic of our life and worship to continually, humbly and honestly wait on God. We may rest assured that the One who made us for himself that He might give himself to us and dwell in us will never disappoint us. In waiting on Him we will find rest and joy and strength and the supply of every need. My soul wait only on God!"
Wait On God, be with Him. Silence your mind, body and soul. He is jealous for your heart and your attention and he is worthy of so much more than that.
Be blessed.
The last couple of months God has been asking me to come and be with Him and to sit in silence and wait on Him, without talking, worshiping, praying, or even expecting an answer from Him in return. He has asked me to simply be with Him in silence, waiting, and knowing that He is enough to sustain my every need... even without words. Through this I've found that waiting on Him truly is a discipline. We are such busy people with busy minds, it really takes discipline to go with no expectation before God and to just be. He has asked me this question though "is it enough for you to just be with me? Do you have to come when you want something or need something? can you simply just be with me to be with me? To spend time with a friend?"
So, in response I have been with God, I have waited on Him and I will continue to. He has proved Himself to sustain and satisfy my every need without words. I have come to a new revelation of God's faithfulness, kindness, friendship and love. I have come to see that He already knows and understands my heart. I have come to a place where my heart so desires God and not just the "blessings/fruit" of God that I will take an hour out of my day just to sit in silence with my best friend. NO expectations, no worries/fears/anxieties, no questions asked or answers sought... simply silence with One who created me and wants to spend time with me. What an amazing feeling to rest in the arms of my Maker, to sit with the One who pursues me and finds joy in me. It is true... In His presence, I lack nothing.
I think Andrew Murray does a good job at expressing this truth in his book "Waiting on God":
"These all wait for You, that You may give them their food in due season..." (Psalm 104:27) It is God who gives all: let this truth enter deeply into our hearts. Until we fully understand all that is implied in our waiting on God, and until we have been able to cultivate the habit, let the truth enter our souls. Waiting continually on the one true God in entire dependence upon Him is the only true religion. It is the one unalterable and all-comprehensive expression of our true relationship to the One in whom we live. Let us resolve once and for all that it will be the one characteristic of our life and worship to continually, humbly and honestly wait on God. We may rest assured that the One who made us for himself that He might give himself to us and dwell in us will never disappoint us. In waiting on Him we will find rest and joy and strength and the supply of every need. My soul wait only on God!"
Wait On God, be with Him. Silence your mind, body and soul. He is jealous for your heart and your attention and he is worthy of so much more than that.
Be blessed.
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