So I have been home for about a month and a half now. Wow its still weird to say that I was in India two months ago. I have done many things since being home and learned a few lessons that I am going to share.
One: God calls us to trust Him. He is real and his plan is perfect. There is no question. Even when it seems that everything is not going like “you” planned, thats when God steps in says “It’s my plan NOT your’s”. I say this to say that I had a plan, I had a way that I thought it would “work. I would do some support raising and funds would come and then I would be fine. Well if that had worked and it would be that easy then guess what, I wouldn’t have learned anything from it. I’ll be honest, it hasn’t been like that. Support raising isn’t fun, nor is it “easy”. And the enemy uses it against me. Things like “It would be easy if this is where your supposed to be”. These are the things that come into my mind. I wonder if I am supposed to be here. Well I’m going to just go ahead and PUNCH THE DEVIL IN THE MOUTH and declare that I am SUPPOSED to be right here, right now, for this purpose. I am bringing Kingdom here on earth by equipping and sending out 4000+ youth into the mission field next summer. This is where I’m called and where I’m going to be and the enemy cannot convince me otherwise.
Two: My pastor back home has a saying “What goes in is what comes out” meaning that if you read crap the crap comes out or if you watch junk then junk comes out or what you listen to is what you sing. I whole heartedly agree with this but the Lord took it a little deeper for me this week. He told me that not only what you put in is what you get out but what you put in also can prevent you from producing at all. God taught me this through a series of somewhat comical events. So I like to run, jog slowly really, but anyway, Monday and Tuesday I ran about 2 miles and it was a good, fun, relatively easy jog. I have also been eating a very strict Vegan diet because of the way that I feel when I do eat that way. Well, on Thursday of this week I went to a “same-as-every-other Mexican restaurant and had the traditional Chicken taco salad. You know the one filled with cheese and chicken and sour cream. Oh yeah that one that is ABSOLUTELY delicious. Well I hadn’t been eating any dairy or meat for a few weeks but that’s what I wanted so that what I ordered. And I ate all of it, and boy was it good. Well I went running that afternoon as was customary and I immediately noticed something was different. It was MUCH harder to pick one foot up and place it front of the other and keep going. And then it happened, God said “what you put in can prevent you from producing as much as it is also what you will produce”. So because I had eaten that wonderful meal that was not what I had told myself to eat it caused me to perform on a much lower level. Life lesson learned.
So in all of that I want to thank everyone that is supporting me and those that would still like to but haven’t yet please contact me at [email protected] and I will get you the information needed to send in support. I am at about 20% of my support goal for the year. To continue to work for the Kingdom I need to bring this number up.
Love you all and I hope God blows your mind today!
