Prayer that sticks with you

We had the pleasure of working with a Canadian mission team a week ago and our family has been so blessed by each of them. The Lord truly shined through this team. We had a night of worship with them that has stuck with me so much that I think about it daily and it has encouraged me, pushed me, and grown me. Sounds crazy! How can ONE night of worship do this for me? Well because the Lord was there and the Lord spoke, that is how!

First, we made a fire pit on the top of the soon to be AMAZING mission house of pastor Hilmar's. The view  wow! Look around and you can see the volcanoes and the mountains and also the lights of the city. To be able to see this beautiful country, to be able to live in this breath taking place, that is a blessing in itself.  It is a constant reminder of how much more beautiful our God is and how GOOD of a God we get to serve that he would let us be in a place that literally takes our breath away.

So we had a fire and great conversation with the team as everything was coming together. We roasted marshmallows. We laughed...A LOT. Then the singing started at first the Guatemalans singing praises in Spanish and then the guitar, a bucket for a drum, and an egg like maraca joined in and we sang some English worship songs. All the songs really shouted out the greatness of our Lord. Something that I really loved was that this team had learned parts of some songs in Spanish, and as they sang these parts all the voices were joined as ONE. What a picture of Him! Apart from the language barriers and the cultural differences there was ONE voice, ONE heart singing of the Lords holiness and becoming ONE to solely glorify our Lord.

Then someone asked for a person to pray for this time. Every word of this prayer brought so much truth and so much of Him! As she prayed she spoke of how they did not want their time here to be an experience, but how they wanted more of Him. How they wanted their gifts to be used. How for those that did not speak Spanish may be used for His glory and how in the short time they were already here they had seen this. She thanked the Lord for the great blessing it was that He was already using them and how good of a God he is.  She asked for healing on those they had already met and prayed for.  She spoke their belief in His healing and His desire for healing in His children and how much they loved Him for that. She continued in praying how our cup is filled by Him alone. How if our cup is not full and if we are feeling empty it is only because we are not going to Him to be filled, and we are taking our cup away from Him. Because when we are letting Him fill our cup it will not only be filled but overflowing! So that the excess, that constant overflow from our cup will bless others. (Praise Him for He is sooooo good, so good. He has designed such a beautiful life, such a magnificent plan, and we get to take part in it! HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, SANTO, SANTO, SANTO is His name.) She ended her prayer by thanking him for this place, for these people, for this time, for His love, for His goodness.   Wow the power of prayer! I have been left in awe of Him, in awe of His faithful followers, and in awe of His plan because of this prayer.

                I have been tired because of cultural changes, language learning, sickness, and waking up three times a night with my baby for the past month. However, because of this prayer I am learning, I am being challenged to go to the Lord in my tiredness and draw from Him. To put my cup under His stream. For it is not of my own strength that I will be reenergized.  I fail often, I get frustrated a lot, but I am learning to go to His good fountain. I am finding that my cup being empty is only from my own choosing. He is teaching me, and that is all that I can I ask for.  

                As I was praying yesterday at the soon to be feeding center I heard the Lord say, " I said your yoke would be light, but not because your circumstances would be light, not because you life is light, but because of me. Because of me your yoke will feel light, because of my strength holding your yoke, it will be light. Because you come to me, because you know me, because you love me, your yoke will be light. BECAUSE I FILL YOUR CUP YOUR YOKE WILL BE LIGHT!!!"

Amen y amen




By Morgan



P.S.
P.J said he would really like to hear your thoughts positive or negative. We feel encouraged by knowing what you all are thinking