Wow. I can not believe I am actually writing a blog for the World Race!! This opportunity is beyond anything I could ever dream!! Just a few days ago, this opportunity literally fell into my lap. In order to understand what’s happening in my life right now, I must explain how this came to be.
For the last three years, I was working at a job that made me extremely unhappy, almost suicidal, and I felt like I was in a prison physically and mentally. I knew that God had so much more for my life, but I didn’t know how to tap into it. I believed in God and had reverence for Him, but I was straddling the fence. I was in a gray area, I was going to church, but I was doing anything and everything I wanted to do without considering God and how He felt about it. However, I knew I needed Him. I would see how much He worked in other people’s lives, and I wanted to experience that for myself. At the beginning of this year, I did the Daniel Fast (21 days) that I had done a few times before, but this time was different. This time, I made a list of 21 things to pray for and would focus on that one item for each day. I had to make sure I really prayed, because I really wanted to experience Him. Day 20 was the day I heard from God for the first time in my life. He told me to put in my two weeks notice at my job. 
The next day, the very last day of my fast, I turned in my letter of resignation, and that was when I completely surrendered my life to Christ.
From that day forward, I took my hands off of the wheel, and I let God do the driving. There were not many people around me who understood what I was doing, but all I knew was that I heard from God, and I knew I had to continue to have laser focus on Him so that I could here him direct me to my next move. I had no other option, because I had no clue what to do next. I wanted what HE had for me. I knew that the only way to build faith was to trust Him. When I tell you, God showed up and showed out!! Any doubt I had in my mind was absolutely thrown out of the window. I could not believe how intentional and strategic The Lord was, and He continued to blow my mind day in and day out. I have so many testimonials of how God showed up, protected me, defended me, comforted me, provided for me, etc.!
After a few months of getting to know Him, The Lord told me to go work at a coffee shop that at the time was 40 miles away from my house. I knew I heard Him, so I knew I had to be obedient. The people around me, of course, did not understand, but I knew I had to trust Him and be obedient. after a few months of working there and getting to know people, I could see why He led me there. God used me a vessel to get His sons and daughters to realize Him and to see that He was really there and to try Him. Just about a month ago, God showed me the biggest miracle and blessing I’ve seen thus far. One of my customers came in with an extremely heavy heart that day. He let us know that his three-month old grandson was on life-support, because his mother had breastfed him, while she was on heroine ( She passed away, God bless her soul.) He told us that the doctors didn’t think he would survive, because he wasn’t able to eat or breathe on his own. There were so many other things happening in his family, and it broke my heart. I told him I would pray for Him, so I wrote down the names of the baby and his family members. That night, I WENT IN for his family. I sobbed and prayed for that baby, called out his name and prayed that The Holy Spirit would breathe life into that baby! I prayed for divine restoration and the Spirit of Life to enter into his body, in the Name of Jesus! About a week later, as I served my good customer his coffee, he said, “Let me show you the power of prayer.” He pulled out his phone and showed me a picture of a beautiful baby boy with a little smile of his face. This picture was taken the very next day after he told us about him and the situation! It was the very next day after I prayed!! ( I have chills!) He told me that the doctors had no explanation as to how he got better and said it was a miracle. He said to me with tears in his eye that I kept him from having to bury his baby. I told him, I did nothing. All glory and honor to God! I could not believe God heard my prayers like that and healed that baby!! God showed me the power I had in Him. Wow. I still can’t believe it.
A few weeks after that, we got a new coworker that had just come home from a year long mission trip. I didn’t really know much about mission trips, but I began to look into them. I said to God, “Lord, if this is something you want me to do, have her talk about how she did it, or what church she did it through.” The next time I worked with her, she kept referring to “The Race” and “The World Race” over and over again. When I pulled up the application, there were three days left to apply. I asked God about it, and was freaking out that this was possibly what he wanted for my life. He confirmed it in my spirit and put the desire in my heart. I turned in my application, and now here I am. I know that God prepared me for such a time as this. I now know that I can go out and pray for people, and they can be healed in the Name of Jesus. God has truly transformed me by the renewal of my mind! I am changing on a daily basis. Even right now, I can say that I am not the same person I was yesterday. Thank you, Jesus, for showing Yourself to me and for choosing me to be your disciple. It would be an honor to spend a year and tell people about how good God is, because I’m living it right now!! I am proof of what God can do and this is just beginning! This is all Him and none of me! my hands are completely off. I pray that His will be done. Yes and Amen.
Now about this $5,000 I need in one week… To be continued…
