How do I even blog about what just happened. I have no idea. We are at a conference with all of the World Racers on the field at the present, alumni and staff and it has been amazing. This blog is more or less what God has been teaching me in the past few days. Sorry it is a bit long….
Here is the definition of AWAKE:
1. To excite from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity or inaction; to put into action, or new life; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
2. To bestir, revive or rouse from a state of inaction; to be invigorated with new life; as, the mind awakes from its stupidity.
3. To rouse from spiritual sleep. a. Not sleeping; in a state of vigilance or action.
I think the only thing I can say at the present is that I pray we awake! I pray that I wake up. That we, as a body of Christ, collectively, awake to Christ. Awake to the fact that God sent HIS ONLY SON, who came in PERSON, to DIE for us. We will never understand it fully, but He took OUR sins upon himself. Not only did He take our sins upon Him but the WRATH OF GOD. Because He loves us. that much. We LIVE in the new covenant.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO WATCH MOSES ASSEMBLE IN THE TENT OF MEETING TO MEET WITH GOD. we can meet Him every day! WE HAVE CHRIST INSIDE OF US!! I won’t ever understand Why He did what He did or why He does what He does. However, as of late, what God has been teaching me is 2 Corinthians 3, particularly verses 7-18.
Verses 7-11 states:
Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it. For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.
I know that most of us know we are living in the new covenant…but I think I have only just begun to understand with my heart what that means. That Jesus Christ is INSIDE of me. THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION. Christ has set us free from this world. I am so comforted by the fact that even if this race is hard, gets difficult, even if I lose ALL OF MY POSSESSIONS and moreover my LIFE it will NOT BE IN VEIN. It will be because I am blessed to even be allowed to kneel at the feet of Jesus Christ, who has redeemed me. He is the reason that I am here. He is the reason I give everything up (and if I haven’t fully given everything up i am trying). He is the reason that I breathe, that I eat, that I walk where I walk. May everything I do edify Him. How blessed are we that we are created in His image. I think also my prayer is that the Jesus Christ in all of us come alive. That we wake up. That I wake up. That I stop limiting God and trust Him and understand that to die to myself is gain. That if I have nothing in this world but Him then how RICH am I. I’m so stubborn and I pray that this is my prayer every morning. It will be a daily struggle. But how much more comforting is the fact that God has already won. When life sucks, when Satan tempts us to despair, when we look at prostitution, and women forced to be sex slaves, the child soldiers, the orphans, the widows, our sex starved nation, leaders that kill their own people, hatred against brothers, families ripped apart, when we look at natural disasters, and things of the world….what great comfort to know that THE DAY WILL COME WHEN WE WILL BE UNITED WITH CHRIST as one body. The body of Christ. Christ as the head. And Christ WILL DEFEAT SATAN. That satan will be thrown to the pit of fire FOREVER! He has already lost! There is freedom. We have authority over the sin in our lives. That I have the authority of the sin in my life because Christ is in me. Yes. Wow. This turned into more of a prayer I guess…but its what is on my heart. It is what God is teaching me. Thank you for reading.
Also.
Information about our ministry next month!! We will be going to Hungary! As far as I know the World Race has never been to Hungary so our job is going to be to set up contacts, first we will have to find contacts, and pray and hope that we can establish relations for future teams to travel there. So pray that God would literally direct us on EVERY path because every moment will matter. Also if anyone who is reading this knows of an organization based in Hungary that we could work with or just get more information it would be helpful and definitely useful in case God directs us that way. Just throwing it out there. Thanks for the prayers! It will be a VERY exciting month to see God move in ways that I have never seen.
Information about our ministry next month!! We will be going to Hungary! As far as I know the World Race has never been to Hungary so our job is going to be to set up contacts, first we will have to find contacts, and pray and hope that we can establish relations for future teams to travel there. So pray that God would literally direct us on EVERY path because every moment will matter. Also if anyone who is reading this knows of an organization based in Hungary that we could work with or just get more information it would be helpful and definitely useful in case God directs us that way. Just throwing it out there. Thanks for the prayers! It will be a VERY exciting month to see God move in ways that I have never seen.
Anda special hello and thank you to my WONDERFUL coaches who brought me DOUBLE STUFF OREOS for my birthday. I got them yesterday and cried. It was wonderful.
Thank you all for your prayers. Please. PLEASE know that I love each one of you. I really do feel the prayers and appreciate them all the more. This is getting really long but I mean it from my heart. I’m speaking to the missionaries that sent me on this race. By prayer. By money. By support. By printing out my letters. By investing in my life. I am where I am at today because of you. This is really long so also thank you for reading! J
