The feet of Jesus

The lord has really been speaking to me for the last six months, and it has intensified in the last month.

I want to share what he has spoken to me, and I pray that it will touch your heart as well. I pray that it would not offend but encourage you.


I have been a Christian all my life, and I left my entire life to be a missionary when I was 18. For five years I served and went all over the world, even to a country that was closed and it was illegal for me to be doing what I was doing. I had so much passion and was willing to die for the gospel.

I was missing something though.... I grew tired. I would run like a mad man and then have to stop and breathe for several months. I burnt out.


Last year God revealed to my why this happened. Please read this scripture with me:


"As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!"
"Martha, Martha, " the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her." Luke 10:38-42

When you are a missionary, and especially when you work in YWAM, you can think that your whole life is spending time with God and abiding in him.... But that is not true. We can get so caught up in doing, doing, doing, that we forget to simply spend time EVERY day at the feet of Jesus. In worship, in prayer, in silence. Being renewed in our spirits and receiving his love for us, not because of what we DO but because of who we ARE: His dearly loved children.


There are many places in the world where the spirit of God is pouring down so intenslely. Miracles are very normal! People are raised from the dead, healed of sickness, crazy awesome manifestations of the spirit of God. Why are those things happening? Because they have remembered their first love, they have sought their father and lover's face first and foremost, and as Jesus promised all the rest was added to them.


Worship, prayer, and time spent with God should never be overlooked. It is where we draw our strength from. It is the way we can run and not grow weary.

In John 15 beginning in verse 5 Jesus said:

"I am the vine, you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit, apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up and thrown into the fire and burned. IF you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my fathers glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. As my father has loved me, so have I loved you. Remain in my love"


I have seen many fellow Christians and missionaries burn out and leave the field or stop following Jesus. Many flames burned out... I believe that it is ESSENTIAL to remain in him. So many times as our schedule fills up, time spent with God is one of the first things we cut out. I know that was how it was for me in the past. I believe you will find, as I did, that if you make THAT a priority, even when there is no time for it, you will find that you DO accomplish everything you needed to do, and with a strength you wouldn't have had otherwise.



We are called to love the Lord our God with all our strength, he is our priority!



I challenge you with this. Put him first every day. Spend time in his presence, and in worship every day and watch how your heart begins to change. Watch how you are empowered to do the good works you are called to do. Apart from him you can do nothing.




I love you all.