Less than 12 hours until I’m on an airplane flying back across the world to the place I once called home. If you ask me where my home is right now I couldn’t tell you. I’ve spent the past 11 months traveling around the world. I’ve been to 16 different countries on 4 different continents. I’ve never experience anything like this. I don’t think I will experience anything like this ever again. I really don’t have words to describe The World Race. This isn’t a simple missions trip, it’s a LIFE TRANSFORMING journey. I’ve been living in the most amazing community where people speak LIFE and encourage each other daily, I’ve experienced abandonment and brokenness, I’ve been taken out of my comfort zone, I’ve had to lay down my pride, I’ve given up so much, but I’ve gained so much more. This journey has taught me how to rely on the Holy Spirit, in times that are great and in times that I have nothing left. I am now a man led by the Spirit! I choose to walk like Jesus! I will walk like Jesus!
America, Is that where I’m called? For the next ten months, yes. I still have mixed emotions about going back. I really don’t want this journey to end. I feel like my home is on the road, with a backpack and a sleeping pad, in places where people don’t speak your language, where they smile every time you walk by, where the food is weird and flushing your toilet paper is forbidden, places that are uncomfortable. The life of the unknown is beautiful. A life where you wake up and are led by the Holy Spirit, where anything can change at any second, you have no idea what’s going to happen until it happens. This is how I have been living for the past 11 months. I just don’t want it to change. I know most of it will but God has given me peace.
God is showing me that “home” is where he has me. For the next ten months, home is America. It might not look the same but I can still be the same. I have been TRANSFORMED and I will not go back to my former ways. He has put so many things into place already to make this re-entry process easier. A family and great support to come home to, multiple job offers, a somewhat-clear vision of what’s next, and everything I have experienced and learned this past year. I will FIGHT the lies of Satan and I will choose to walk in grace and love. I will walk like Jesus. I declare that over myself as well as the rest of D Squad returning home. This will be a time of continuous growth and an outpouring of the growth I have obtained over these past 11 months.
It’s the perfect time to go and it’s the perfect way. Yesterday was one of the best days of my life, filled with so much emotion. We had our last big meeting as a family. We laughed, we cried, and we danced, all night! 11 months of so many memories.
Just a few minutes ago as I was walking to pick up some laundry we ran into current racers. (I literally have chills as I’m writing this) J Squad, in month four of the race, a group of Holy Spirit-filled men and women unlocking freedom for the nations, men and women on the same journey that I once was. My world race is over but there’s a generation STANDING UP for the name of Jesus, A generation that longs for the world to be changed. J Squad, you are a part of this generation. The way you walk changes lives! Speak with love and truth, be on fire for Christ, pray bold prayers, experience God’s love in new ways. I pray blessings over your squad and your time here in Penang! This encounter was divine, God spoke to me, as I’m hurting inside God simply says, “It’s ok son!” I’m flooded with peace. A peace that I can’t explain, that only alumni racers can understand. God’s plans are perfect. His timing is perfect. It’s time for me to go HOME!
