Month six has begun which is about halfway through the race. This week my team has experienced church ministry in a whole different level. The day we got here we started going to houses and having prayer and worship services. We sing in there language (clap off & on beat), then a song in English, then someone on my team shares something that is on their heart. At the end of that we spend time praying for different areas. We have been to four different houses since arriving on May 30th. Their Church happens on Thursday and Friday night.
Each night we have prayed healing or salvation for individuals we meet for the first time. We eat lunch at this mans house that has also brought us to ministry the first couple of days. On June 3rd we attended his daughters funeral. Earlier that week we had prayed for her because her kidneys were failing. We could see that she had so much faith in Jesus when we met her. God could have decided to heal her but he decided to take her up to heaven at the young age of 30. We will never know why he did that but sometimes we just have to trust Him with our futures even when it hurts.
Her life showed so much strength and her life is a beautiful story for others to see inside the church and outside.
This is why I am on the race to see the strength of other believers. There are days on the race where I want to just go and sit in the cafe next door to where I am living when we have free time alone but I can’t always do that. That’s the reality of life on the race and being safe. Making decisions on my own is out the window and I must rely on my community. I can’t be selfish. There is no room for that.
Community is a huge struggle for me and I have to push harder to thrive there. There are many beautiful things that come out of community like Jesus and his disciples. God is really teaching me to be selfless and to go deeper which is not easy for me.
He has been showing me to have faith in all circumstances. I shared with the church we are partnering with this month about my migraines and about having faith while going through trials.
“Great faith isn’t the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It’s simply taking God at his word and taking the next step” Joni Eareckson Tada.
After March there have been days where pain has been worse then others.
This month I started to read about faith because I felt my faith being tested.
I have seen the members of the church we are around full of faith and it encouraged me to have faith and keep praying for healing.
I may not know when God is going to take away the pain of my migraines but I have to have faith he will and not doubt.
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do. Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position. But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower. For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business. Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. (?James? ?1?:?2-12? NIV)
I want to be the person who perseveres not the person who doubts.
I have to have faith that my funds are all going to come in by the end of this month. There are many other things I must have faith in while being away from home. Going on The World Race was a step of faith not knowing what would happen in 11 months at home. I have to trust God with my whole life because he is God and he really does care about my life and has a plan for it.
