"...and wait in expectation."

FPO is over and I am back in Texas for 2 weeks. It was an amazing, relaxing, refreshing, challenging, and fun-filled couple of months in Virginia. I met a lot of fantastic people, sat under some fantastic teaching, and drank some fantastic hot chocolate. We sat, read, acted out hand motions, watched funny videos, played a lot of games, and had meaningful conversations. We learned to cook, explored Washington DC, and went out for burgers every Monday. It was a good time.

God taught me a lot over the past 8 weeks...about Him, about myself, about this task. My first priority every day is to be with Him, sitting at His feet and clinging for dear life. There are many lessons that He seems to be teaching me right now...some repeats, some new. It all comes back to the simplicity of increasing my faith.

A few weeks ago, all the Journeymen got together for a time of prayer and it was a really powerful time. I just kept thinking, "God, we're talking to You right now as if nothing's impossible. We're asking for some really big stuff here." And God reminded me that--well--He's God. And nothing is impossible. And He can do bigger things than I could ever ask or even imagine.

So the verse I've been camping out on is:

Psalm 5:3

"In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and

wait in expectation."

God has absolutely been showing me that I need to pray big and wait expectantly. It's amazing how in every testimony, every story we heard at FPO of the awesome things God is doing all over the world, the common denominator comes back every time: prayer. I want to not only lay my requests before Him, but to learn to "wait in expectation."