Hey guys, Things are slowly beginning to pick up in California! As my previous post have updated I will be leading tour this year. That basically means I will be planning a route for tour where we share Jesus in a region during the fall, then I will be leading with a group of students on that route in the Spring. I have officially been put on the South East region team (whoop whoop). I have also been spending a lot of my time this month with the Lord preparing my heart to be ready to steward all of the responsibilities well.
The South East region is Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, N & S Carolina, and Florida area. We are starting to meet up the first week of September to start planning who is assigned to which state in the region, because usually the states in a region are broken up & given to 2 co-leads to plan out! That is very exciting, so more specifics will come with that hopefully in September. But I have started praying into that region in general and the Lord has really been stirring my excitement for what he is going to do!
This past month has been a lot of settling into my new home and preparing myself for everything God wants to do this next year. He has had me really focused on Jeremiah 29:11-13.
"11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."
The first verse, 11, is probably one of the most quoted scriptures across Facebook & Instagram. I see people who reject God all day quote this verse as hope when something goes wrong. This is not judgment because I find myself doing that. In this season though the Lord has been highlighting it with 12 and 13. In 11 it says that He knows the plans & they are ones for prospering/hope. Then it goes on to say in 12 & 13 that when you call, come, pray, and seek, that is when when you find God & the plans. It is not like a new car, house, & 401k is the plan the Lord wanted to drop in your lap. The prospering & the hope are found in Jesus. The Lord has been pressing into me that it is not my "happiness" he is after but my holiness. That doesn't mean he wants be miserable but it is coming to the realization that nothing else can make me joyful, free, or successful other than Jesus and the walking away from sin. I would rather be in the will of God in a ditch with a can of beans then out of his will with a huge following and everything society says I "need". It has not been a super easy lesson because there are still so many non-material things I feel entitled to but slowing & graciously the Lord is showing me the fullness found in him.
That is just a little bit of what has been going on, over the next couple months I will have many more details to share. But for today that is it! I hope y'all have a great week!
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