It’s July 11, 2017. I can not believe that I’ve been on the missionary field for 7 months. I’m sitting in my hammock under a gazebo in Vizag, India overlooking the Bay of Bengal, listening to the crashing of the waves. Knowing we are going to take our 2 hour van ride to ministry in a few hours I want to just sit and take in as much of the breeze as I can. I keep thinking about how I got here. How the Lord has blessed me and my squad to have come this far in our journey. Thinking about the lessons He’s been teaching me.
Be still and know I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10.
“Be still.” I can still hear my mom telling me to be still at different times in my life. I mean if you know me at all you know that I’m never still. There’s always something going on in my head. But now with this lesson God has been trying to teach me this year I think I finally understand.
One of the many exercises we do on the race is called Listening Prayer. In this exercise we literally ask God what He wants to teach us in that moment or for that time. I’m always nervous to do this exercise because I’m never confident in what I hear the Lord telling me to do. This is where my learning the discipline of being still comes into play.
So here’s a few things I’ve been trying to help me be still before the Lord.
1. Ask the Holy Spirit to lead your thoughts and prayers.
2. Find scripture and pray the scripture over and over again.
3. Think about a place you and Jesus could hang out.
Try to do these things in a quiet place, maybe even wake up earlier than you normally would.
Please continue to keep me in your prayers as we go into the last month of our Asia travels.
xoxo
Jackie
