my dear followers,
i sincerely apologize for my absenteeism this past month. i will assure you that i was absent from writing blogs because i was so engrossed in spending time with the Lord and serving at the most incredible ministry!!!
my team was blessed (beyond what we can still comprehend) to serve at Christ for the Nations bible school in a small village of Pogradec, Albania. it was beautiful, the students brought so much life, and boooiiiiii the Spirit of the Lord was so present in this place.
coming from the past few months of just feeling like i was in places filled with darkness, dark pasts, and even dark presences, this month was a breath of fresh air (also quite literally – @southeastasia with their nasty air).
we started our mornings every morning with prayer. one person led a morning devotion or word, and then we prayed with all of the students. we prayed for the day and its teaching in their classes, for their professors, for their families back home, for personal trials and challenges, for sicknesses, for tests, literally any and everything. we then had breakfast, personal quiet time with the Lord, and then an hour of worship along with a daily message delivered by various people, including my team and i.
for months i had been telling myself that i would start reading my bible and actually digesting what it was saying, what it meant, what the Lord was trying to teach me. i wanted so desperately for the Word of God to feel alive and real for me like people said it did for them. i guess this month was the month that i wanted it so bad that i genuinely was seeking it with my whole heart, because the Lord says “you will seek and find me when you seek me with all of your heart“.
i read through the book of exodus. i had such a fun time doing it!!! i didn’t just read it; i found truths in it, i felt the Lord speaking to me through it, i saw how the scary old testament really does have relevance to my own life, and then guess what i did with all of that knowledge? I FREAKIN’ PREACHED TO A WHOLE CHURCH CONGREGATION ON IT. 6 months if you asked me to preach i would have straight laughed in your FACE.
the Lord was moving. He was present and He was doing some serious work in and through me. i wish i could go into every single bit of detail with each of you personally about it. that would take eons.
this is what i am here to say to you today: the soil you find yourself on matters.
this month i was on such incredibly spiritual fertile soil. seeds were being planted. seeds were being sowed. fruits were being harvested. the whole nine yards, man. it was so incredible to experience.
i learned that when you truly seek the Lord with everything in your being, when you dedicate every single waking moment to God and God alone, miracles happen. you grow. you grow in ways you would have never imagined for yourself. He molds you and crafts you into who He has created you to be. it’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.
this is vague, and really only scratching the surface on how incredible and reviving this month in Albania was for me.
but be encouraged; your prayers are heard, the Lord is working in your favor, and you are so immensely loved at a level that we as humans cannot possible fathom. sit with that today.
much love (and hopes of being better at blogging next month),
mags <3
