Ah, Zomba, how I have missed you!!
I have the crazy, amazing, wonderful and unexpected pleasure of writing this blog at a dinner table I sat at just 2 years and two months ago, with my World Race team, falling in love with this country more than any other I have ever experienced.
Great is Your faithfulness, oh God!
Nelson Mandela once said, “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
Obviously there are a few changes to this wonderful home and place, but the beauty of it is just as captivating. When I applied to come to Africa, I had no idea I would end up in Malawi, and it wasn’t even until my second day in Malawi that I found out I would be returning here, to my favorite place in the world to serve with my old contact and dear friend Pastor Medison Gama. I could not have beeeeeeen more ecstatic!
And now I sit here, having been here just over a week, humbled and reverent and completely unlike the woman I was when I was last here. So much has changed, and yet God’s faithfulness has remained the same.
I am so humbled by the ways I have been welcomed back into this home, village and church. I have been reunited with friends and families I feared I would never be able to see again like the Mwale family and their baby Belinda whose picture was on my bedroom wall from the time I came home until the time I left. I cannot describe the JOY that has newly retaken my soul.
Chimwemwe of the truest kind.
Not only has returning to favorite country and place been the source of immeasurable joy, but my team and the ways that we have grown already is my daily delight.
I literally cannot even put into words how much I love this blessed group of disciples that I get to serve with until May. We are weird. We are loud. We are bold. And we are unified more than I ever expected so soon. I am blown away.
From prophecy, to demonic release, to powerful worship and declaration, we are becoming an unstoppable source of God’s power and healing. In just one week in Zomba, we have experienced manifestations of God’s love and power that did not come until months into the Race, if at all.
As I lead, I realize it truly is easy if I but follow. Praise the Lord!
It seems unfathomable to me, that just three weeks ago I was broken and hurting; it seems like a lifetime ago. God’s unrelenting love for me is newly transforming me and bringing out beauty and strength I had once only dreamt of. All I can say is:
CAN I HAVE MORE OF YOU, OH LORD?!
“Your love, oh Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; Your justice like the great deep… how priceless is Your unfailing love!” –Psalm 36:5-7
