Leavin' On A Jetplane...

Sitting here in the LA airport waiting for my team to arrive. The internet doesn’t work, so by the time I post this, I will be in Brisbane. Nevertheless, I want to put some thoughts down.

I’m listening to “Always” by Hillsong United... How appropriate, right? (They are from Australia). Here are the lyrics:

“Did You rise the sun for me
Or paint a million stars that I might know Your majesty?
Is Your voice upon the wind
Is everything I know marked with my Maker’s fingerprints?

Breathe on me. Let me see Your face.
Ever I will seek You.

Cuz all You are is all I want always
Draw me close in Your arms
Oh God, I want to be with You.

Can I feel You in the rain?
Abandon all I am to have You capture me again.
Let the Earth resound with praise.
Can You hear as all creation lives to glorify One Name?”

This is my prayer. Right now. As I sit with a journey ahead of me that I cannot even comprehend. I am amazed that He would rise the sun for us, His children, so that we might know His majesty. I love the idea of His voice being in the wind. I pray that I will hear His voice so clearly this summer. My heart’s desire is that He would take me to this foreign country to romance me and bring out all the gifts He has given so that I may serve Him wholeheartedly. I want to be broken, challenged, grown, and loved by my Maker. I know that He will draw me close in His arms. I hope to feel Him in the rain, in the waves, and even in the stillness of the day. Mainly, I want to be with Him. I crave this attention from Him so that I might be overflowing with love to share.

I read this morning in Romans 8 that we are more than conquerors. “For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.” (v.20) I know that God may put us in the path of frustrated people because this world is broken. My prayer is that they would be brought out of that bondage and into freedom! “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose… If God is for us, who can be against us?” (v.28,31) I am trusting Him to make all things work together for His glory and my good, whatever that may be.

Waiting with an expectant heart for good things. I can feel Him moving already.