No I didn’t get engaged, married, find out that I was pregnant, or gave birth on that day but my life did change in a way that I never really expected it to but, man, I am so excited about it… I was accepted into the World Race!!!!
Some of you are probably thinking how freaking cool it is that I am going to be on TV but no, I do not mean the Amazing Race even though I do love that TV show! While a few of you actually know what this is. Six months ago, I myself didn’t know what it was but now I am so thankful that a lady that I work with told me about it!
The World Race is an 11 month mission trip to 11 different countries with Adventures In Missions. You spend a month in each country being God’s hands and feet and bringing His love and joy everywhere you go!! The countries that I will be going to starting this September are Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Japan, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Swaziland, Botswana, and South Africa! What an adventure I will be going on with the Lord!!!
I know a lot of you are probably wondering how I even got to this decision, so let me go back and explain how God brought me to this place.
When I was fighting God about going on two mission trips to Brazil and Uganda all the while knowing that He was calling me to go; Elaine, told me about the World Race. Her daughter had done it a couple years ago and her life changed! That very day I checked out their website and began to start my research on it. I thought about this Race and it slowly became this awesome dream that I didn’t think would come true!! But here I was talking to God about it and I had MANY conversations with Him! I was sooooo torn about this wonderful idea! I didn’t want to miss out on my life here especially know now that I will be missing many things including some big ones like my nephews first birthdays, my sisters 30th and my little brother Justin’s graduation from college! All this things break my heart and makes me cry! I remember arguing with God as I was in the shower (I have A LOT of my big talks in there… I know weird but whatever) The Lord gently reminded me that when He called the disciples to follow Him that they were asked to leave everything they had and even couldn’t bury their dead! This being true, my prayer switched to God give me CLARITY on what YOU want me to do in this next season! I just wanna be where God wants me to doing what HE wants me to be doing! This was going on while I was preparing for my mission trips to Brazil and Uganda, which I really felt that I was going to get clarity on these trips… Boy did I!!
At All Church prayer before we left for Brazil, our team got prayed over. When it was close to be being over someone came up to me and said that they saw the word clarity and they really feel that God was going to give me clarity on what I am supposed to do in my next season. I was weeping cause that is what I had been praying for!!
Fast forward two days and it was our first day in Brazil. Our team leader got asked to teach the message at the youth service that night. He told us after that he was planning on preaching a different message but when he got up to preach, God told him to preach the message he did and it was titled Follow Me!! He used the same scriptures that God was using with me and I just sat there weeping again feeling like I was supposed to apply for the World Race. The next day was Easter and what I remembered most was at the alter call at the end of the sermon they were singing a song in Portuguese and the words were: “I will be the Father of Nations. I will touch many generations.”
I totally felt the Lord telling me that I am going to be a mother to the nations. A lady on my team prayed and prophesied over me about how she saw my smile all over the world bringing joy and light to the darkness! She called out and addressed every fear and worry I had about doing this and I had such a sweet, excited peace that this is what I am supposed to do!
God than proceeded to stretch me in so many ways where I started to move in the prophetic and began to pray out and over people which is totally not my typical comfort zone! But God used little ole me to touch and speak to people! I was so blessed and honored that He did even though I fought Him and didn’t want to at first! God is so good and I am amazed at how He moves!
When I came home I told my family and mentors about what God did in my life and that I was going to apply for the World Race in which I did the day after my return. I paid my application fee and set up my phone appointment for May 6th. I was nervous about it but it ended up being a great hour and a half conversation with total stranger but what was even more wonderful was that it felt like I was talking to a friend! At the end of the conversation, I asked how long till I would find out if I was in and she told me it was a two week process. I told her that I would be in Uganda than in which she told me to prepare to find out on the 27th cause she couldn’t even promise me that I could find out before I left. So to my amazement, I was shocked and surprised to find out FOUR DAYS after my interview that I had been accepted into the World Race September 2014 route 2!!!!!!! Talk about the move of God and Him confirming even more that this is where He wants me!! I am so excited and overwhelmed of all that God has to do in my life for me to go! The mountain maybe huge but my God is bigger!!
Please be praying for me to focus and trust God as I know He has me and IS faithful!! If you want to donate, any amount will help!! Thank you so much for letting me share my heart and the process of beginning this journey! You can also subscribe to my blog on the World Race so you can get updates of this whole amazing, exciting, adventure with the Lord that I get the privilege to go on!! J
