These last few months I have spent working and raising the support I will need for my life over the summer. Not only support financially, but [more importantly] in prayer. As I set out to do this I sent out letters asking people to join me in this great call God has put on my heart. Sending them out believing that God would bring me all that I would need. Money wasn't something I had to worry about, I trusted He would provide because it has been so clear this is what He is asking of me. My trust in God was NOT misguided (obviously).
Along with finances I knew God would bring me a group of people who I fondly refer to as "My People", these people will be the ones that I can count on and turn to when I need prayer, when I need someone to tell what God has done, when I need someone to listen and hear where my heart is, and yes the people who would make it financially possible to do this. I knew with my whole self that God would bring these people to me, He had to...this is His plan after all. So I stepped out in faith and asked Him to show me "My People", I asked Him to bring them to me.
These last few months of God bringing these people to me have been some of the sweetest times of my life. I knew He would, I really did...but the way He has done it has left me speechless. The magnitude of His faithfulness in this has truly overwhelmed me. I have known and believed and trusted God for many many years, and over those years I have seen His faithfulness in my life on countless occasions so I didn't doubt Him, I really didn't! That being said.......I didn't expect Him to bring me all that He has and the ways He has. I wish I could find the right words to explain to you what I am feeling, I wish I could spend forever writing and sharing about how God is working.
That being said it is time to worship. It is always time to worship. He is so good and so worthy of all our praise and worship! There are no adequate words to bring Him all the honor and glory He deserves, but I will spend the rest of my days looking for more ways to worship Him! My heart is full of thankfulness because of all that He has done in these days. Every good and perfect gift comes from Him. "Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Psalm 100:1-2.
I am about 20 days from leaving....ahhhhhhh! I am kind of freaking right now, in many ways! Is it too soon to start packing??? hahaha. As I go along on my journey I want to share all that God is doing in my life, the good, the bad, the ugly, the sad, the exciting, the crazy, ect. This is the place I will come to do that. It is my hearts desire to share how God is working in my life and also in the lives of those who I will be doing ministry with. Will you pray with me in these last few weeks before I go? Pray that God will prepare my heart, that I would be able to do all the preparing I need to do, that He would be preparing the hearts of those I will get to come into contact with, that as I get closer and closer to the day I would not become overwhelmed by fear and anxiousness but that I would have a new fire and passion for the ministry God has entrusted me with. Most of all would you pray that allow God full control of my life and my words and my heart.
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And
if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have
not love, I am nothing. If
I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but
have not love, I gain
nothing."
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
