Blog 009

The Lord is teaching me that He is my daily bread 🫓

For everything that we need, He is more than enough.

Over the last week, we have spent time with people in a local level 3 hospital here, then at a retreat for women who are experiencing domestic violence and I just started feeling so much lack - in what I could offer and in my capacity to serve them. These are some hard situations as you could probably imagine. And nothing I was doing in my own strength felt like enough. The situations we were encountering were way beyond anything any of us could do. But then the Lord stopped me in my tracks.

I heard the Lord gently remind me that He is here and He’s got more than enough. He is more than enough.

Somehow I had already lost sight of the fact that the Lord is already here and moving in Papua New Guinea. I just have the honor of being here to witness it and partner with what is already taking place in this land. I was challenged to consider how much I actually valued His power and what He could do for the people He loves and care about. I have been challenged on a new level to believe that He is more than enough, for myself and for the people of Papua New Guinea. When did I start to throw away my faith in the impossible? When did I stop believing He was sufficient for the day?

I have been so encouraged by the joy and resilience of those living in these remote and isolated spaces even though, I, in my Western mindset think that they are somehow living in lack.

Of course, we should acknowledge the unequal global distribution of resources and opportunity, however, I keep meeting people here who are pursuing the Lord and continue to impart this assurance that God is more than enough. They are so confident that God still does miracles. So who am I to deny what God can do in this place? Anything is possible with Him.

This has been hard for me to fully believe, even for myself. I have been so quick to focus on what is hard or on what I don’t have in this season and I’ve felt the Lord gently remind me that He’s with me.

Everything I need is found in Him. There’s an invitation to come to His Table. He’s got more than enough. Wherever we are, whatever season we’re in, He’s got what we need.

He sits with us.

He dines with us.

He prepares a table before us.

He is our daily bread.

We can feast on His faithfulness.