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The Face of the Girl I Know Now
 
 

It was the month of January just a year ago that I began my journey on the World Race and I remember thinking what have I gotten myself into. Little did I know that the Lord was taking me down a path where I would be forever transformed and never look back. Sometimes we have no idea what we are getting ourselves into when the Lord calls us to things, but God knows. He says I knew what I was getting into when I chose you and I was just waiting for you to choose me back.

When people ask me, “how was the race?”, I find myself in an almost numb and frozen state of not being able to sum up the wonders of God and the ways that I have seen him move in my life and the lives of many over the last year. There are no words to express the multitude of experiences and things that God has done because they are beyond our comprehension. I feel like I have lived eleven years instead of eleven months but at the same time that those years have flown by like a blink of and eye. When I see myself today I see an almost unrecognizable person compared to what I knew of myself before the race began.
It is a mere separation in my mind between who I once was and who I am now.

So as I walk as this changed daughter of God I have to think now what am I going to do with this change. These things that the Lord has imprinted and written on my heart’s tablet how I am going to move and act in these things. My dream is to worship Jesus with my life, to waste my life at the feet of the cross because that is the only thing that makes sense. I know the beauty that is carried in the depths of my soul. The beauty of the Lord that has changed my life and renewed my mind. That beauty has captivated my heart and captured my soul. That beauty is where my perfection is found. And so I live not as the face of the girl I once knew but as the face of the girl I know now. I live to spread the dangerous and furious love of Christ so that his beloved can know this beauty and be set free.
 

2 Corinthians 12: 9 says…
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient
for you, for my power is made perfect in your weakness.”

My hearts cry is that the Lord’s goodness and faithfulness would be made known through these weak things in me. That I would be able to proclaim that it is just because of his grace that we have been made sufficient. That a generation of people would come to know who their father really is and that the more you know who God is the more you know who he says that you are. And the more you know who he says you are the more you can live as he has called you to walk. The very core root of it all is that we have to know the beauty of the Lord that lies within the depths of our souls. My heart is to awaken people to this beauty. It expands so far beyond what we could possibly imagine and starts deep within our hearts, it starts with knowing the lover of our soul.

Most people would ask, “so what are you going to do now.” The beauty of the Lord is that my heart is this place of surrender to him. I will go where he calls me to go, I am a worshiper of him and a lover to his beloved. This house of the Lord that is built inside of me, this house will stand for Jesus and testify of his great love. Through faith, the Lord has taken my heart to Spain.

On February 8th I flew to Spain to be a part of a family in Madrid for five months. This is an incredible opportunity to invest in them and to be a small part of their lives. I have the privilege to be a big sister for this period of time and speak life and love into this eleven year old girl and single mom that I am living with. Shortly after that I will be going to Mijas, Spain in July to be a part of a missions based leadership program called G42. This is a mentorship and discipleship opportunity and their main focus is to inspire and develop leaders who are passionate about giving their lives to the message of Christ. They believe in taking your kingdom dream and passion that the Lord has given you and making it a reality. So at this academy I will be ignited with more fire, awakened to more freedom and then
unleashed to go to the nations to change a generation for Christ.

When the Lord called me to yet another season outside of the United States, my comfort zone, and support raising all I could say humbly is, “yes Lord.” So why G42 and why Spain?

During my six months here I will be individually mentored, live in community again of incredible people who love the Lord, be challenged, and grow this passion and dream that the Lord has placed inside of me to speak into his people about his beauty and how he loves us.

During this next season that the Lord is bringing me into for July, I have to raise $6,300 dollars that will go to completing this rigorous missions-based leadership academy. This cost will cover all of my expenses for being an intern through this program from transportation, to housing, to food and living and serving there. I absolutely believe that the Lord is calling my heart to G42 and to another season of being mentored so that with everything he gives I can give it back to him.

If you would like to be a part of helping this passion and dream that the Lord has put inside of me for missions and discipleship I would love to partner with you!

Here you can find the link for the website, click on the donate tab, enter Sarah Taylor as an intern, and donate to me specifically as an intern there through paypal. G42 is a non-profit missions organizational program:

G42, the 42nd generation is registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donors will receive receipts for their gifts with the understanding that the disbursement of those gifts lies completely at the discretion of G42 and that the gifts are non refundable and non transferable, per IRS regulations.

If you would rather pay by check, make checks payable to G42 and mail to:

G42
P.O. Box 130611
Houston, TX 77219-0611

Memo: Intern Sarah Taylor

Thank you for believing in the work of the Lord and for partnering with me on
the journey of the World Race. Thank you for the prayers, words of
encouragement, and funding that you have sacrificially given so that my life and
the lives of many people in the nations could be transformed. The more that we
sow into the Lord and the things of him the more that we reap the harvest of his
blessings. So let this story of how my life has changed be a blessing to you of how you have sowed into me and please pray with me in this next season that I will sow into a generation of
people so that God and him alone can reap a harvest of true worshipers. Please
pray for my heart that it would continue to burn to abide with the Lord
and that I would stand strong and be courageous as I continue to walk as the
face of the girl I now know.

I absolutely believe in community and using my voice to share about the Lord and all that he does. So here is my new website that I will be continuously blogging on about the goodness of the Lord.

http://sarahsjourneyoflove.weebly.com/index.html please feel free to check it out, subscribe to my blog feed, or just be a part of what the Lord is doing!