Hopes for the quarter ahead

Here's a post I wrote a few days ago but didn't have an opportunity to send....

Dear friends,

I’m sitting here in an airport Burger King en-route to Mexico. It seems that flying on airmiles = long flights and longer layovers, but I don’t mind…. It’s giving me time to reflect on what has been a wonderful God-filled month in Hawaii.

As I think back across all the training over the past month, I begin to realize just how intense it’s been. I feel somewhat like a sponge, full to sopping with the dripping knowledge, passions, and excitement of being trained to staff Discipleship Training Schools, and ready to be squeezed out and filled again as the students arrive. It’s only a week from now that the students will be coming, so full of expectation – some good and some bad! Many will be here because they long to be here, and it’s their heart’s desire to pursue God in this time. Others may be here just because their parents want them to come. Still others may just be indifferent, starting a DTS as a last-ditch effort to follow the Lord, but not sure if they care what happens.

We care. God has put a holy passion, desire, and responsibility on us to introduce these students to the authentic Jesus Christ, and it’s the cry of our hearts that they would meet him and become LOST in the praise of all that he is. God’s imparted to us, the staff, a burning desperation that the Lord’s presence would visit this quarter in a special way, and with that we have a confidence that comes from knowing who he is, how much he desires us, and what he’s promised to do.

It’s exciting.

So as I travel on to Mexico, for a weekend of tacos, salsa, and fiesta, my heart is beating fast in my chest with anticipation. What will I face when I return? Only God knows, but I know that when it comes he will be the same all-sufficient God I’ve come to know, his grace will be more than abundant, and his power to change, redeem, sanctify, and glorify lives will be more than evident. Let it be so in the name of Jesus Christ! Amen.

Comments

[Liam]

Go for it Brohan, back to back. Liam