Love Extravagantly

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.”

 

As I find myself in more leadership roles I'm learning how important it is to learn how to rest in the Lord. The Lord created us to have a rest day, even when he created the world he took the 7th day to rest. Our God who is perfect and Holy  took a rest day what makes us think that we don't need to take this more seriously? If anything we need to be allowing even more time to just rest in his presence. I find it hard to just rest, we are in a society that says rest equals laziness. When we don't devote every minute of our time to something we feel as if we weren't productive. However God calls us to rest in him and we will be filled. I know that from experience when I am serious about my times of rest I leave refreshed and the full days ahead don't seem as heavy. When I rest in the Lord he gives me his perspective which makes a massive difference of how I handle things. So I encourage you to take time to learn how to rest in the Lord, he is waiting for you.

 

“Love extravagantly.”  ~1 Cor. 13:13

 

It is that time again of packing my bags and heading out on another adventure God has called me on. I'm really excited to have the opportunity of leading a unique, creative yet silly group of teenagers to the Philippines. We will mostly be working with children who are on the streets or in orphanages. We will only be there for 10 days but I know that these students are going to have an experience that will change them for the better. So please be praying for the students to really experience God's love in a way they never have before. I would say that half of the students have an understanding of who Christ is and the other half are really still trying to figure out who this Jesus guy is. So please pray that not only the community we go to experience the love of the Lord but also that the students leave changed. I'm so thankful for this opportunity to be used for Gods kingdom.

 

 

It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters .