Last night I could not sleep. Thoughts of discouragement running through my mind about fundraising and if I’m even supposed to go on this trip. I was praying and asking God,
Why aren’t the funds coming in?
Did I hear you wrong?
Am I not supposed to go on this trip?
I kept praying and then I heard HIM say go read Matthew 28. At first I was like no that wasn’t Him and me not being the most versed on the bible didn’t even know if Matthew 28 was an actual chapter. So I got on my bible app on my phone and found that it was the last chapter in Matthew.
WOW! Ok so maybe this is God.
So I read the the first title of the chapter and it read, ‘The Resurrection’, I thought to my self,”How can this relate to what I’m going through right now?” As I read it nothing was sticking out to me until i read verse 6 which says,”He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. (?Matthew? ?28?:?6? ESV)
JESUS IS ALIVE! HE IS RISEN!
I am not serving a dead god but THE GOD that is alive and who actively talks and listens to me, who died on a tree so that I can be forgiven and join Him one day in heaven and who is coming back! This story is not a holiday that we can can slap a name on and make excuses to give gifts. This is truth and is to be lived out everyday and we need to live like He is coming back yesterday. Amen. Also if that wasn’t enough encouragement (yet it was) I as I kept reading the very end of the chapter says,“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (?Matthew? ?28?:?18-20? ESV)” This is the very thing that He is letting me go do. Before I even heard God say to go read I first prayed that he would make it evident if this trip is what I am supposed to be doing. If this is not confirmation, I don’t know what it. I am now full of encouragement seeing how big, my God, I serve is. I pray that whoever reads this, that it would encourage you too, and know that there is nothing to big that my FATHER can’t do. Thank you so much for taking your time to read this. If you feel lead to financially, there is a tab to the left that says ‘Support Me’. Thanks so much for the support!
ALL THE GLORY TO GOD!
