I graduate in 25 days with 2 years of Theological Studies at IHOPU! This season has gone by so fast, I feel as if I have barely blinked and now it is nearly gone! It is so funny how life is! I feel like Isaiah says it so appropriately, “All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field, the grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass” Isaiah 40:6-7. Life itself is so short and so fleeting and so temporary in the eyes of the Lord, yet He is the one that plants, He is the one that waters and He is the one that grows us to be the fragrance, the beauty and the richness of the earth in our assigned season. I am blown away by the magnitude and the sovereignty of the Lord! One of my teachers noted in class this week and it has stuck with me ever since, “Did you know that the Lord feeds you?” He provides the rain that grows the food that we enjoy everyday, He gives, He takes away, He upholds, the solitary reason that we live and we breathe is that He wills it.
As I look onward to the next chapter in my life I am thankful, His grace has been sufficient, I haven’t gone with my needs unmet, He has protected me, provided for me, sowed into my heart in so many rich ways and I can’t help but dwell on the fact that I am so undeserving of it all and so grateful for His tenderness. He loves me and that is the sole motivation of His heart, my actions and my pursuits are entirely irrelevant to His plan for me. He is so, so good!
I really appreciate all of your prayer and encouragement! I feel peace to move forward into visiting Casa Bernabe in Guatemala City this fall to see if the Lord moves my heart to stay there long term. I received word this week that there is a woman building a house of prayer nearby and she needs people who will partner with the Lord’s vision of establishing night and day prayer for Guatemala. That is a potential connection for me as well so I am very excited about the possibility of serving the Lord there. At the same time, I want to be where the Lord wants me to be so if none of these doors that I am knocking on fully open then I am excited for the even better door that He will open wide for me in His timing.
In the meantime, I am moving in with some amazing girls in June to start a discipleship community house inspired by my years in the Red Roof House. I am looking forward to living in community again for a season as I await clear direction from the Lord.
