We all wake up the same routine set in mind. It’s 5ish and we are all exhausted because Pooch, the dog, decided to stay up barking and guarding the beach keeping us awake alllll night. I don’t think I have ever been so angry at a dog in my life!! On top of no sleep four out of 7 of us are not feeling well at all and we can’t really build a house with just the two shortest people on the team ha. So we decide to take a day off from building. It was Melissa and Natalie’s day to bake with Mariyve and Shannon, Alicia and I were planning on going up to the church/orphanage/school to teach the older students English. but before we went we decided to take a morning of prayer. and this was the best part of my week so far.
God kept showing me the word REFUGE. God is our shelter, our dwelling, our home if we choose Him to be. If we let Him be. In Him we are safe. We will never been uprooted if we take refuge in the Lord.
He then painted an image of a HUGE wave in my head. A wave that there was no way I could conquer. A wave I instantly knew would drown me. But then I knew, with God as my refuge, his endless love will engulf me and protect me. God is the only way for me to conquer the wave. He is my only hope, His love will engulf me and bring me LIFE. I just have to let Him. Lord, shield me from the waves of the world, drown me in Your love, because Your love casts out all fear.
Shannon told me in her time of prayer God placed an image in her heart for me. It was a heart divided into parts equally between God, my family, Dan, etc. and that she then saw my new heart divided but all surrounding a section of God. Whats crazy is my prayers lately have been exactly this. asking the Lord to truly become the center of my heart. So that my love for others isn’t divided between my love for God, but that it is doubled and God’s love in me is multiplied out to others.
I love how God works. and how every time still He shocks me. I really feel he is preparing me for something huge in my life… I have no idea what it is, good or bad, but I know it will test my faith and I know that I’ll be right be my Daddy’s side no matter what wave is coming my way!
My whole team has been joking about how our schedule has been thrown off so much this week and that God just wanted time with us. I couldn’t agree more. Thank you Father for being selfish and thank you for prayer and fellowship to renew our spirits.
now it is nighttime. I was about to go to sleep… at 8PM, ha and again while watching a lightening storm this time I see the huge cloud roll in. All of a sudden Mariyve is outside of my tent telling us to take cover. So we all grabbed our valuables and are sitting out the storm under a roof as I type. And even though I am far from home, away from ones I love, sleeping on the ground without my cats :[ living with no electricity, having to hand wash all our clothes annnd sweating non stop…
I can’t help but love life right now :] I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Thank you Daddy!!!
