I woke up yesterday morning feeling like I was hitting a plateau. We’d been in Haiti just one week and the last several days had been incredible!
I’ve gotten to begin building relationships with my new squad and had started to learn how incredible they are. They’re passionate and pursue the Lord, sharing His love in a way that pushes me to be better.
We’d hung out with the local kids and gotten to share Jesus with them and pray over them.
We evangelized in villages where we saw several come to Jesus and prayed over many more.
We’ve worshipped and prayed together on the beach with the sunset as our background.
The Lord had been giving me insight and words for people in ways He hasn’t before
All this in one week and I woke up on the edge of a plateau.
My thought was, “there’s no way to maintain this. It can’t be this good every day. I’m going to hit ‘normal’ again.”
I was about to begin my morning routine of prayer, intercession, journaling, all the things, when the Lord showed me that I was seeking His hand more than I was seeking His face. He told me to forget the routine and just spend time with Him.
I spent the next chunk of time sitting in the hammock with Him, praying and learning more about the Father. He showed me a lot but the biggest takeaway was that this isn’t my thing to maintain. It actually doesn’t have to go “back to normal”. I can live every day expecting the Lord to do big and amazing things.
Every day I can anticipate Him outdoing what He did yesterday because, this side of eternity, I’ll never experience the fullness of what He has to show me. There will always be more. It won’t always be pretty or what I want or think I need, but it will always be good.
The only reason I’ll ever end up on a plateau is because I’ve made the choice to stop pursuing Him, His face and His heart.
When I want Him more, choose Him first, sit with Him longer, pursue Him harder, that’s when I’ll get to see what His hands can do.
Lord, don’t ever let me stay content.
