I guess it's about time... About time I get down to writing a newsletter and blog again. About time I share what the Lord's been doing. So I decided to finally do it now... ABOUT TIME!
For me personally, our time in Guatemala started off on a wonderful high. I could experience God working in and through me and I found absolute joy in knowing that I am where the Lord wants me to be. It was special to come back to Panajachel and be able to recognize and testify of what the Lord has done since the last time I was here and got baptized in the lake. I spent a lot of time with each of the team members individually and it was a privilege to see how God is working in and through their lives and to be able to shepherd and love them. I just knew from the start that this was going to be an extraordinary month on our journey. At the same time there was a tinkling feeling in me that scared me a bit... I felt that this wasn't going to be an easy time and I didn't know what to expect or how we would deal with it... And so it turned out that God also allowed for me to go through a deep dark dip before bringing me into a deeper understanding of walking in His Spirit - of believing, obeying and loving Him.
A month in Guatemala has been a difficult yet amazing time
A time of brokenness and a time of healing
A time of laughter, community and unity as well as a time of loneliness and not feeling worthy
A time of tears and of joy
It was a time filled with beauty in each new day
Yet at times there were attacks of darkness that almost made it fade away
It was an emotional and spiritual time for me
A time of greater challenges and the reality of war
There were times of fear and doubt when I simply wanted to run out and hide
Then there were times in God's glorious grace when He used me to serve others and even to guide
Times when His Spirit came through just in time - to do what was needed as He knew best
A time of His power and of my weakness
This was a time of getting to know so much more of our God who is King
Of His wrath and His love and His perfect ways
Our God who's three in One - Father, Spirit, Son
A time of supernatural Truth and of Light
God chose this time and set it apart for His Kingdom and glory to come
A time for Him to use us to touch others' lives with compassion and merciful love
An urgent time for His righteousness and justice to be shown
A time of forgiveness and the power of God's love
It was a time of people set free - a time to learn and to grow
A time during which each one of us could choose
To allow more of Him or to settle now and lose
A time of God's glory, His Life-giving Spirit and grace
A time to draw closer
A time to find peace
A time to know
A time to trust
A time in Him and for Him and through Him
I praise God for this time!!! I'll be forever grateful unto Him because He knows and He chooses the perfect time for each one of us to meet us where we are and to bring us closer to Him. God is asking me to be hungry... hungry for more of His holiness and righteousness and truth and power in my life. He is also asking me to be willing... eagerly willing to pour out and share everything He is giving me in the physical and especially in the spiritual. During our time in Panajachel, I was filled with a much greater desire and urgency for an intimate relationship with the Spirit of God - Him being the One who comforts, who counsels and who guides, the One who testifies with me that I am a daughter and servant of the True Living God, the One who convicts and discerns, and the One who equips me with everything I need at the exact time I need it to bring glory to my Father through the power of my Savior who has cleansed me and freed me - my King Jesus Christ who is living in me.