Nine months ago I asked God for some big things this year. I asked Him to change me. To change my perspective. I wanted more.
Our God is so faithful.
He wants to bless us. He wants to make us more like Him, He is just waiting to hear us ask.
Nine months ago I asked for boldness. In Malawi I shared my testimony in front of 120 strangers in the city center.
I asked to see healings. On a Thai beach, I saw my friend delivered from depression. I saw my friend’s knee heal in London. I experienced my headache being healed by a pastor in Malwai.
I wanted to hear from God. I came to the Race, never having known that God talks to us. But He does speak. I hear Him everyday. It has become second nature. Something I rely on.
I asked for visions and dreams. This one is still hard for me to get used to, and difficult to understand. But God has given me pictures and words to tell people, for encouragement and understanding. They don’t always make sense, but He is faithful and has opened my mind’s eye to things beyond my understanding.
I wanted more joy. I stood with my squad in a living room in London, while the Holy Spirit overcame us with a supernatural Joy, manifested as uncontrollable laughter. It is still one of my favorite moments of the race.
I wanted to be broken. My heart is repeatedly torn apart for the children, whose eyes hold an emptiness, caused by death, destruction and pain. I have cried for the women who live a life soaked in hopelessness and despair. I have wept with my team members as they share and are vulnerable. I have rejoiced with my squad as we make it to the other side of uncomfortable.
We have traveled across oceans, lived with complete strangers, seen those strangers turn into family, seen God heal people, seen new sisters and brothers added to the kingdom, learned how to live in community, walked in the footsteps of the parentless and homeless, died with the dying, and loved the unlovable.
I have seen my teammates grow together and change together. We have learned to lean on each other, but still depend on God the most.
The transformations that have happened this year are not over. God is forever changing us. Bringing us closer to Himself, making us more like Him.
I am so thankful for all He has done, and all He is doing. And I can’t wait to see where He takes us next….
