11 Countries in 11 months has come and gone! It’s been an incredible journey. I got to work with 11 different organizations that are serving the Lord, visit 11 different countries and I got to be on 4 different teams loved me well. God has challenged me, which stretched me but it has lead to growing me.
This journey started with a prophecy when I was 17! I had been told, “In 2 to 3 years time you are going to see major things happen”, “You are going to be drawn to a nation, you are tenacious, you are becoming very brave and courageous they are only going to grow from here, revelation will be put through your dreams, people you come in contact with you are going to make a difference in there lives, you are drawn to young girls and you are going to help them out!” As I turned 20 I had this crazy urge to apply for an 11-month mission trip and I would be travelling to 11 different countries! So I applied to a squad that was going to be travelling to Europe, Africa and Asia. A couple weeks later God gave me a dream of a building… I goggled this building and it happened to be in India! At that time the squad I was on didn’t have India on the route. God said “Change Routes”, to the one that had India on it. I resisted for at least one month. I didn’t want to listen, as I didn’t want to go to Asia (for selfish reasons). But He didn’t give up He was persistent and kept saying “Change”. So after trying to ignore him I decided to listen and changed routes. Later, in India I found a picture of the building God showed me in my dream. It was towards the end of the month and I was speaking at a house church when I saw the picture on the wall, which was pretty much identical to the photo in my dream. I asked where this building was and you know what the lady told me, “It is just a drawing this building doesn’t exist”. Know you can’t tell me that that wasn’t God! It blew me away and I was in shock for several days… After that I knew God had me right where He wanted me and I was going to continue to say “yes” for the rest of the race! God continued to pick up the pace at which I was learning. He gave me challenges of which I never thought would be brought up on the race. He got me to face them head on, to embrace the hard messy situations and to be okay with it. As it was going to only bring growth, a further relationship with Him… and it did. Thinking I would never reach $16,000 USD, He proved me wrong. I met the deadline with plenty of time to spare. Thinking my parents would never allow me to do something so insane… God gave them a peace about this trip and became my number 1 supports! I had moments where I never thought I would see the day where I would be going back home but now I am going home on Sunday.
Just like the couple of prophecies that were spoken over me a couple years ago I am seeing them come to completion. God took me through some crazy major things being this trip, which happened to be 3 years after they were spoken over me. Brave and courageous were the 2 words that had literally been told to me the entire race. I never thought I would fall in love with a nation but have which has been Seoul, Korea. Best part is we worked with an all girls home! God is so funny and cool like that. I know for sure I will be going back to Korea I will continue the relationship I made with those girls. Just waiting for the right timing!
God has a plan for each and everyone of us. Whether we know the plan or not He is just waiting for the right timing. He will connect the dots in your life because he says that He who has started a great work in you will bring it out through completion! (Philippians 1:6)
I am excited for what God has next. I am excited to continue to say yes and trust Him even if the idea sounds crazy at the time. I am ready to pursue Him even more and enter into the next chapter! There is more out there for you and me, you just have to want it, listen for it and then run after it! Trust Him, be patient, and be ready for when the time comes! God has been and will continue to connect the dots!
A special THANK YOU to all of you who have made this journey a possibility. I can’t thank you enough! Thanks for choosing to support me, to keep in touch with me, to pray over me and to love me well! Thanks to my parents for being my number 1 supporters and for letting me go. Thank you! I love you guys and will see you all soon!
Love,
Heidi 🙂
