Texas trip, and then some more...
Me and some buddies of mine made a quick trip down to Texas this weekend. A friend of mine was getting married and he asked me to help officiate part of the ceremony--communion, to be exact. It was an honor for me and I was glad I was in the same hemisphere, for once, with one of my friends weddings.
I also had some time to spend with a soon to be married couple who are interested in coming to Africa. We're praying together with them about how that may look and for direction from the Lord.
I'm really needing a lot of that right now...the direction thing. It's such a time of transition for me with just about everything in my life up in the air. I didn't really want to leave my beloved Africa but I can see where He has had some reasons for me to be back in the States for sure. I'm looking at having an extended time set aside for nothing but hearing His voice so that all the plans and directions in my life are totally and only His. The words of Jesus always are a marvel to me, "I can do nothing..." and He goes on to say without the Father, He can't even do ministry or say a thing...How dare I do anything without Him for even a second in my day!
Pray with me. I am leaning toward returning to Africa in September. I do want to go to Angola but with some challenges for getting in that country it does seem good to my spirit to say that I'll be heading for the north of Namibia. I still want to wait and see and hear all that the Father is saying.
It has now been 6 states so far, with a few more to come. I've got one suitcase that I still haven't unpacked from Africa, with miscellaneous things in that bag and the other is being at times packed and unpacked wherever I go. I still don't really feel settled. Even in my own home town I do not fully feel as though I'm home--not because of anyone here or that I don't love anyone here. Just that a restless feeling keeps calling me back toward the ends of the earth. It's like I'm having to feel a simultaneous waiting and yet a deeper desire for the going emerges out of the waiting.
I also had some time to spend with a soon to be married couple who are interested in coming to Africa. We're praying together with them about how that may look and for direction from the Lord.
I'm really needing a lot of that right now...the direction thing. It's such a time of transition for me with just about everything in my life up in the air. I didn't really want to leave my beloved Africa but I can see where He has had some reasons for me to be back in the States for sure. I'm looking at having an extended time set aside for nothing but hearing His voice so that all the plans and directions in my life are totally and only His. The words of Jesus always are a marvel to me, "I can do nothing..." and He goes on to say without the Father, He can't even do ministry or say a thing...How dare I do anything without Him for even a second in my day!
Pray with me. I am leaning toward returning to Africa in September. I do want to go to Angola but with some challenges for getting in that country it does seem good to my spirit to say that I'll be heading for the north of Namibia. I still want to wait and see and hear all that the Father is saying.
It has now been 6 states so far, with a few more to come. I've got one suitcase that I still haven't unpacked from Africa, with miscellaneous things in that bag and the other is being at times packed and unpacked wherever I go. I still don't really feel settled. Even in my own home town I do not fully feel as though I'm home--not because of anyone here or that I don't love anyone here. Just that a restless feeling keeps calling me back toward the ends of the earth. It's like I'm having to feel a simultaneous waiting and yet a deeper desire for the going emerges out of the waiting.
posted by Nate Sanow at
8:33 AM
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