One morning during “Ask the Lord”, I was sitting at a High School my team has been visiting and praying over as I asked God, “What is it you want me to do today?” I heard Him say “Just rest in my presence.” What a humbling thing to hear. I can honestly say that I have never stepped into a country, city or town where I have immediately felt the peace and presence of the Lord like I have here. We can so often get caught up in the mindset of what we need to do, how we need to perform and ensure that we say all the right words so our time with someone or somewhere is a “success”. But what is success if we miss what HE is ALREADY doing? 

 The Lord is reminding me of the simple truth: that there is so much power in just resting at His feet with a humbled posture. This month I am praying that I would fall in love with Jesus all over again. I want to learn about Him and His character rather than being so focused on what I need to do. The Lord recently has been reminding me of the sweetness of a childlike faith. Children expect to be accepted, there is no “spiritual resume”, instead they just craw into the Father’s arms when He calls. 

John 14:1-4 says “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you may be where I am. You know the way to the place I am going”. The Lord has already gone and prepared a place for us, not for anything we have done or are going to do but because He loves us. Reading these verses, I was reminded again of the beauty and necessity of just being in His presence exactly where we are. 

I am excited to set in the tension of being rather than doing and to cling to the simple statement of “Trust God with people and people with God”. Jesus is here moving and working in these places and it’s beyond humbling getting to rejoice in that space with people from all over. Let’s be the hands and feet of Jesus, but by humbling asking Him where He wants us. 

On Saturday nights, we have youth group in the church and we start the night off by playing uno. I can’t explain it, but I was brought to tears in the beginning as I just sat and watched all of us communicate and laugh through a card game. I was reminded that the simplicity of loving someone, holding space and meeting them where they are at HAS POWER.

I’m pumped for what the Lord is doing here in Guatemala and how He will use us and ask us to step into what He has already been doing.