TRUST.
This has been my demon over the past week. After a busy week at work, the stresses of my lease ending/moving out, and little progress in fundraising… I. am. exhausted.
I find myself struggling with the ability to TRUST in His timing or to TRUST that He will take care of all things that are overwhelming me right now.
Trust that my family and friends find peace with me leaving in just 52 days.
Trust that I will reach my fundraising goal of $10,000 in just 33 days.
Trust that God will provide confidence over the next few weeks as I speak at local churches.
Trust that God will protect my team as we venture out to some of the most unreached places to share His word.
Signing up for the April 2016 10/40 Expedition Tour required me to give everything to Him. To put all my trust in His plan, His timing, and for Him to lead me on this next adventure of my life. Over the past two weeks I have felt such purpose, such excitement, and I have felt so blessed to be able to have this opportunity to share the Gospel with some of the most unreached places.
But with my launch date coming soon and the days going by faster and faster, my confidence I once had when applying for this trip is slowly becoming invaded by anxieties. But after opening my “Jesus Calling” devotional this morning, God proved himself to me once again. It read:
“Come to Me for rest and refreshment. The journey has been too much for you, and you are bone-weary. Do not be ashamed of your exhaustion. Instead, see it as an opportunity for Me to take charge of your life.
Remember that I can fit everything into a pattern for good, including the things you wish were different. Start with where you are at this point in time and space, accepting that this is where I intend you to be. You will get through today one step, one moment at a time. Your main responsibility is to remain attentive to Me, letting Me guide you through the many choices along your pathway.
This sounds like an easy assignment, but it is not. Your desire to live in My presence goes again the grain of “the world, the flesh, and the devil.” Much of your weariness results from your constant battle against these opponents. However, you are on the path of My choosing, so do not give up! Hope in me, for you will again praise Me for the help of My Presence.”
This was a wake-up call for me. Gods timing is perfect. This devotional taught me to not be ashamed of this week’s exhaustion, but to take advantage of the opportunity to TRUST God even more. His “pattern”, his timing, is perfect and I just need to TRUST in that.
My Expedition team has on-going group text filled with prayer requests, praise reports, packing advice, & random/hilarious stories — and through this text my team has already developed an incredible bond that I continuously use as a support system. One of my teammates sent this message today right when I needed to hear it the most:
“Praying for you all and so thankful for all of you. I’m so overwhelmed by God’s goodness today!! So amazed that before any of us knew about the World Race, that he knew we’d be here today, on this team about to go to all these places to speak of the wonderful things of Christ. I’m so honored to be on this team. I can’t wait to do life with all y’all!! #52dazeee”
God’s timing. God’s plan. God’s story. God’s love — It’s left me speechless today. GOD IS SO GOOD.
So my goal for the next 52 days, as I prepare to leave, is to not get discouraged, to not grow exhausted with worldly anxieties, but to let God take charge of my life. To cast all of my anxieties on Him and to TRUST in the story that God has already planned for me.
I challenge YOU to do the same with whatever anxieties you’re facing. God is so good, all the time. We just have to TRUST.
“If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31
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