All through Africa and Thailand God has taught me a lot, and because of it, constant rapid growth has become the ‘norm’ in the building up of my faith. However this first week in Cambodia things have slowed down. I haven’t had a revelation every day or so, I haven’t felt the heavy presence of the Holy Spirit during my quiet times or during worship, and a struggle of mine hasn’t been pointed out so that I can work at it.
At first I looked at this week and saw stunted growth. However, after bringing it to my Father he showed me that even though I haven’t been feeling the Holy Spirit as much, or learning new things everyday, I was still growing in my faith.
Even though I wasn’t experiencing growth in the way I was familiar with, God was still using me. Over the last week I have had some amazing conversations with people on my team, I’ve prayed for people back at home and have recently seen dramatic changes in their life’s, and even though I still haven’t heard from God in the ways that I have become accustom to, He has still taught me two really important things.
First, He showed me that I don’t need to be learning something new to be bringing His kingdom. He can use me just the way I am to do any work, big or small. Second, God is pleased with me before I go out and do even one good work. My commitment to Him is already enough to please Him.
So to recap, God doesn’t need me to have life changing revelations everyday to keep growing in my faith, I am fully equipped to do what He wants me to do right now by simply saying yes to his call, and God is pleased with me for simply choosing Him.
