There is only seven days until I go down to Georgia to meet all of my new friends who I will be serving Christ with! During training camp, we’ll be going to be hiking 3 miles with all our gear on within 50 minutes and preparing for our departure mentally, physically and spiritually.
This is becoming real and that feels so weird to me. It honestly feels like 3 weeks ago I was anxiously waiting to get accepted after completing the application so I could legitimately tell everyone I was on board. I remember I made a gofundme page two months before I had even been accepted on the world race. I shared it on my Facebook page showing everyone what I decided I wanted to do with my future after high school and I wasn’t even done with the application process.
Friends donated 125 dollars to me within the first week of the gofundme page up online and this gave me anxiety because I wasn’t even accepted yet and I didn’t really know for sure if I was going to be or not. I repeatedly kept checking my email to see if I had gotten any notifications in regards to knowing if I was to be onboard with this whole world race thing. After 2 months of not knowing, I was finally accepted and boy was that a huge sigh of relief.
There is still the pressure of fundraising but I know that God has his ways of providing. So far $6,015 has been raised out of $13,805, meaning that I am roughly 44% raised!! This is beyond amazing and I am so grateful towards my friends and family for being so loving and generous. We have deadlines when to have certain amounts of money by and the next one is July 27th and I need to have $10,000 by this time. Yes, the task of raising this much money is daunting but I have a great amount of faith that this mountain is going to be easily moved in no time. Jesus said “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
I thoroughly believe that I have already received what I am asking for and I know that God has already provided for me. Faith is a requirement when serving Christ and we need a great deal of faith so our prayers can be answered. Doubts are the opposite force that oppose our faith, inhibiting our progress and weakening our strength.
When the doubts arise, simply doubt the doubts. Its like a double negative making a positive. We can’t walk in fear when we are focusing on Christ because he repeatedly tells us not to worry and have faith.
It is only seven more days and I will be making new friendships based in Christ and I will be getting to know my team personally, face to face, and that makes me really excited!! It’s going to be 10 days of bonding and growing spiritually together, preparing for our 9 months out in the great big world and I can’t wait.
