Wrote this blog about a week and a half ago! The Lord’s shown me so much more of His faithfulness since then, and theres more to come about that in my next blogs!
The Lord’s been doing so much! Can’t help but write about it! Hope the Lord encourages you today! Praying for each of you!
One night in Guatemala, we had worship the night before our team leaders left. Bree started singing the song “How good the Lord is” by Kingdom Culture Worship (If you’ve never heard it, please go listen!). The song is all about the Lord’s faithfulness. That night, I asked the Lord to show me where He was in the moments of my life where I didn’t think He was there. He gave me an image of His hand stretched out to me, holding His heart. My whole life, He’s been holding His heart out to me. Wanting me to receive His heart and just love Him back. In every moment of my life, even the hardest moments, when I choose to receive His love, He shows me His faithfulness. So that night in Guatemala, I chose to take His heart, but also give Him mine. Giving Him my heart wasn’t an unfamiliar thing for me, but without receiving His love, its not a relationship with Him. We have to receive His love to have the ability to love Him well and deeply. That night, He showed me a glimpse of His faithfulness, and that song “How good the Lord is” has followed me since then.
The Lord taught me a lot about His faithfulness in Guatemala. His faithfulness even when I have been so unfaithful. He has covered me and guided me so much in my life, and now I can look back and see that it was all His faithfulness.
I’ve been in Ecuador for 4 days now, and His faithfulness has been brought up over and over again in my mind. I talked about this a little bit in my last blog, but Ecuador has had such a special spot in my heart the past 3 years. I have felt so nostalgic being back in Ecuador, with the same base hosts, at the same house, but now with the sweet people I have spent the last 7 months with.
And that song keeps playing over and over in my head. In my prayers. In my headphones. His faithfulness is everywhere!
I’m in the place where I first tasted how sweet life with the Lord is, but now with the people that have walked me through actually tasting and seeing and pursuing life with the Lord. The Lord has walked me into life with Him through walking me through life with these people. I’ve tasted and seen enough to never want to stop living a life with the Lord. And its all because of His faithfulness.
Through every season I’ve walked through on the Race— a season of boldness in guatemala, a season of dependence in south africa, and this current season where i feel the Lord calling me into a season of freedom and preparation for the next season— His faithfulness covers each one. It’s because of His faithfulness that He has walked me through boldness and dependence and into freedom. Its because of His faithfulness that He continues to walk me through this life, leading me to every next step.
I really believe I’ll look back at my 9 months on the World Race and see even more of His faithfulness. He shows me more and more of Himself through that characteristic, and it makes me so expectant for His faithfulness He will continue to reveal to me.
So much more to come here in Ecuador! I’m currently with a brand new team if 4 other girls at a christian camp retreat called El Refugio (more about them in the next blog!). It is the most beautiful place, and we do property maintenance every day. The Lord’s already taught me so much in 2 weeks of being here, and I am so excited for all thats to come these next 6 weeks!
love always,
ava 🙂
