“Be still and know that I am God” is a verse that has been spoken over me since training camp. I have spent a lot of my life not completely trusting in God. I would give Him a little here and a little there but never fully giving. You see… I had put God in a box. A very small box… tied up all pretty. When I finally trusted God in one area of my life then I didn’t trust Him in another area. A lot of the first four months of the race I spent not trusting in His voice. It wasn’t that I didn’t trust what He had to say it was that I didn’t trust that He would speak to me. I would hear things from Him and would immediately question if it was my own thoughts or if I was hearing correctly. I think God got a little sick of me doing that and was like well I am going to give you 3 things that are going to happen and then you can stop with this nonsense of not hearing from me. He revealed each thing to me over the course of 2 weeks and then “boom” they all happened within 24 hours of one another. God didn’t have to tell me those 3 things but He wanted to. He wanted me to know that I do hear His voice and I need to listen to and trust what He says to me.
So each of the things God reveled to me had to do with my new and amazing team. We had team changes during debrief in Antigua, Guatemala. My team decided to spend some time at the cross overlooking the city. We sat there for a while talking about what God wanted for us and our team in this next season and then we spent some time in prayer about what our team name should be. We kept hearing words like powerful and growth but those would be lame team names. We then thought about how we are most powerful when we are still: still in God’s presence, still in God’s voice, still in His plans. So we quickly started looking for the phrase “Be still” in other languages. “Be still” in other languages isn’t so pretty so Kerry decided to ask Google, “God, what should our team name be?” Elohim is one of the first things that popped up. Elohim can create something out of nothing. Elohim means powerful. God identifies himself as Elohim in the Bible. The verse “Be still and know that I am God” translates to “Be still and know that I am Elohim.” So Elohim it is!
Our team name is an encouragement to me everyday that this is a season where I am trusting in God’s voice. I am going to be still and trust Him. I am going to be bold and walk with Him wherever He may lead me.
So, team Elohim has unsung heroes this month in Zambia. For unsung heroes we spend the month finding new contacts for the World Race. We spend the month listening to the Lord’s voice and following Him. Our first day here I was journaling and spending time just listening to the Lord.
I asked Him, “What do you have for us this month?”
I saw a door opening
“Okay, what does this mean?”
I then saw a village
“Lord, what does this mean?”
I then heard “Sesheke”
“Huh?”
I immediately grabbed my phone and typed in ‘map of Zambia’ and what do you know but Sesheke is a place that actually exists in Zambia. God gave me a freakin’ name of a place! What? How amazing is that?
So team Elohim is trusting in His voice and we are going to Sesheke towards the end of the month. We have no idea what is in store for us there but what we do know is that we trust in God’s voice and we trust in where He may lead us. I’ll update everyone after we visit Sesheke and let you know what God reveals there!
