World Racers are regular people. I know I have read blogs from many people on Races past, but it was really hard to believe them. I just couldn´t see how these people were regular people. And yet, here I am in an internet cafe in the middle of the Amazon. Trust me. I am a regular person. I have a family, and friends. I went to university. I went to church on Sundays and youth group on Friday nights and didn´t think twice about it during the week. I lived my life.
And yet, I´m not. Somewhere along the way God changed my heart and has called me to this NON regular adventure. God has led me to be on this amazing path of serving Him, and growing into who He truly made me to be. The thing is, this should not be irregular. God has given us the power of the Holy Spirit. This life of serving and of spiritual warfare, and healings and prophecy SHOULD be regular. I am a regular person. Nothing out of the ordinary has ever really happened to me, until I signed up for the World Race. But as I am here, I realize that I am still a regular person, and living in Christ´s authority is what it should be like to have a regular life. Why are there so many Christian´s not living with the regularity of the Holy Spirit? Why have they chosen not to step out into the power that is theirs because of their belief in the death and resurrection of Christ? People! Rise up and claim it! There is so much freedom in the Spirit of the Lord! There is power! It is waiting for you to take hold of it and use it! God´s army could be so powerful if only we would rise up and accept the power that is given to us. Because of this I am not a regular person. But I feel as though I am, and any regular person can have this authority, in the name of Jesus Christ.
I feel like I am becoming a World Racer. I have started this journey perhaps without fulling understanding what I was doing. I didn´t realize that I was marrying 26 people (because indeed that is what I did). I didn´t realize that I wouldn´t ever be able to absorb all that is going on around me. I am only now starting to recognize that a lot of what I am feeling and going through is very simliar to those around me, and to those who have gone before me on previous World Races. I recognize now, in myself many of the things that I have read about in blogs from other years. When I did not appreciate what God could do through prayer and Scripture I would be bothered by what I saw as an attempt to act Christian when Racers would put these things in their blogs, and yet I see myself doing those very things because it feels natural. This naturalness to my Christianity is what I have been seeking, and what I have been growing in. I am becoming a World Racer. I am becoming a daughter of the Living God! And He is faithful to continue to teach me, and empower me and grow me. If I have learned this much in 7 weeks I can not imagine what I will learn in the next 40. I am excited!
Please continue to follow my journey towards godliness. More than that, I encourage you to truly begin to accept your power and authority that comes from Jesus. Begin, or continue, your own journey to godliness.
God, I thank you for all of the people you have placed in my life. I thank you for the bonds you are creating between my team and I. I thank you for the amazing opportunities you have placed before us. Even more than that I thank you for the authority you have given to us to be victorious in you! God bless Nauta and encourage the people of the church here. God you are faithful! In Jesus Name Amen
