With every trip I lead the more expericence and wisdom I gain. In the past year I have been able to lead two mature and exciting Real Life trips to Kenya and Nicaragua. Both of those trips left me wanting more of God and his Spirit and wanting others to experience him. I came into this Swaziland trip with a high expectation of where these young women need to move and grow. However, as we have gone about this last month I haven’t seen all there is in my expecting eyes. I questioned if maybe my expectations were too high or selfish, but God keeps telling me they aren’t. So I asked him “what then?” if my expectations aren’t too high “what else are we supposed to do?”.
In church on Sunday a missionary with AIM that lives here full time, Dennis, preached on crossing over into the promised land. He preached on Deuteronomy 1:6 where God tells the Israelites they have stayed long enough on this mountain and it is time for them to GO and claim the land promised to them. I love how God timed this word for us. It is time for us to GO and claim our promised land. So many prophetic words were spoken over this team and individuals before coming and it is time to go and allow God to do those things in us.
I am looking forward to moving on with this team. There is so much more to who we are and who we are to become. PRAY for our future. Pray for the walls to fall down. Pray for fear to be rejected and rebuked. PRAY for God’s POWER and FIRE to consume us. There is so much more to this. I want to sit at the feast at the banquet not at the kid’s table.
