God is so good!! I am overwhelmed by His constant blessings all the time! He continues to wowed me as I continue to get to know Him more and more.
As many of you may know, my little sister has been suffering with many health challenges, and we have been in and out of hospitals for the past couple of months. Praise the Lord; she is doing well right now! And my prayer is that she continues to be well and that total healing may come into her life. Please continue to keep her in your prayers!
For a while I doubted if leaving on the World Race in January was the right step for me to take. I started to doubt God’s plan for my life, I started to doubt if this was the right move for me at this point in my life, especially because what was going on with my family. I was scared; I allowed fear and doubt to enter my heart. And I thank the Lord for speaking to my life so profoundly through His word and through amazing encouraging people on my O squad who continued to pray for me and encourage me when I most needed it.
One of my brothers from my squad constantly prays for me and my family and he was such a blessing, actually let me rephrase that; he is such a blessing to my life. I was talking to him about how I was doubting about going on the race because of everything that was going on and he prayed for me and he challenged me to pray about it, to pray hard about this decision since going on the race has been one of the best decisions in my life that I have made, and that God has called me on. The day that I told God, “here I am Lord, Send me” God started to prepare my life for what was coming, and the race came into my life! And I have been so happy and blessed with this decision so far, but fear entered my heart. Fear of leaving my family behind on this time of need, fear that Brenda wouldn’t get better, and fear that I would be abandoning my family when they would need me the most.
When I started to spend time with God in prayer and through His word, I read Joshua 1:8-9 “Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
I started to cry as I was reading this, and I thanked the Lord for speaking to my life. For reminding me to be strong and courageous, reminding me that He goes wherever I go! He reminded me that my family is not mine but His. And they will be in His hands in His care and to trust in Him! That He is with me, He is with us wherever we go!!
God gave me the courage that I needed at that moment, the courage to continue with this race! And the amazing thing is that He continued to confirm it! More donations came in that week, my sister Brenda started to get better, and her and my whole family still supports me. They have given me words of encouragement to stick around on this race that God has put for my life. They have peace from the Lord to let me go, and they too trust that God has control of their lives, control of the whole family and they are in the best care, which is Jesus Christ!
Man… God is good! He not only encouraged through His word, but He also encouraged me by giving me such a beautiful squad family who continue to pray and encourage me, he blessed me with an amazing circle of friends who pray for me and support me, and also blessed me with an amazing church family who constantly pray for me and my family! I am overwhelmed with God’s love and blessings!
I am so happy that I have continued on this race! I am so happy that through God’s love and help I decided to stay and stick around! I continue to see God’s confirmation for my life for this race every single day!
THANK YOU JESUS FOR YOUR LOVE, THANK YOU FOR LIVING IN MY LIFE! THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME UNCONDITIONALLY!
Thank you to all of you who pray for me, who support me, who love me!
THANK YOU!
God bless you all!
