"You will show me the path of life.; In Your Presence oh God is fullness of Joy and at Your
right hand are pleasures forevermore." Psalms 16:11
It doesn’t matter where I am in the world there is one place
that I find freedom, rest, strength, and fullness of Joy. 2000 years ago I was
given full access to that place. There is nothing like Your presence oh God.
In Ethiopia I saw your presence in a giggle of a baby
infected with HIV, in a thank you from a mother receiving a hot meal, in the
wide eyes of a girl named Sarah, in the dirty water washed over a widow’s feet,
in the modern youth room on the 8th floor of a nice office building,
and in the sweet sound of hundreds inviting Jesus to be their best friend.
Your Presence is thick in this place.
I have found myself on this grand journey to see the world
and carry Your Name. But as I go I’m realizing more and more that I am not
taking You but I’m finding You, or rather You are finding me. It’s not about a
number or a ministry or a church, It’s only about knowing you more. If I have
unlimited access to You then I can go anywhere or nowhere at all and still be
lost in the joy it brings. Your Presence is a place of freedom that gives me
the right to be who you have called me to be.
My prayer is that as I go I will not try to introduce You to
a place You already know but rather that everywhere my feet step I declare,
“This is a place of freedom, this is the Lord’s dwelling place!” That is my
declaration for Ethiopia and that is my declaration for Malawi. May You reign
and may You bring freedom. So I will go anywhere or nowhere just to know You
and to declare Your freedom. I will point to You all my days so that when
others look at me they will only be directed straight to You.
“Begin to know Him---and never stop!”- Oswald Chambers
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