I (don’t) got this!

So far in my life, I have always been encouraged by people who 

 tell me “You got this”. Let me tell you, I am slowly but surely realizing I don’t got this.

My life as I know it has been flipped, turned and spun all right upside down. I am slowly learning that if I ever truly want to succeed in life or here on the race, I need to see that I will only be sustained by Jesus.

Cambodia has been great. Our host family is amazing and it just has genuinely been good.

Yet let me invite you a little into my heart.

I know that The World Race won’t be easy. I know that being away from my comforts of home won’t be easy either.

If I’m being honest I thought by coming here, it would be easy to find time daily to spend time with the Lord and to do daily devotionals.

I thought

Yet here I am 10 days into the race and I am realizing that it still takes work.

I know that might sound crazy so let me explain a little bit more.

I thought that if I am constantly surrounded by people who serve the Lord that I will just automatically take time with the Lord.

I am realizing how easy it can be to fall into life in a new place and go through the motions and not be intentional about the things that are placed in front of me.

So here I am, sitting in a coffee shop with my team for team time being pretty much slapped in the face with the reality that I DON’T GOT THIS.

I can’t possibly continue on this race without being fed by Jesus’ living breathing word, or without spending daily time with the Lord.

SO

As I pray to the Lord and asked Him a way He wanted to use me through this time on month one and throughout the rest of the race, He placed on my heart a prayer project to do.

I’m not going to write much into this yet but I know that the Lord has got some awesome plans to come with that so there will definitely be a blog or maybe multiple blogs to come of it.

So to come to an end I just want to encourage you guys and say sometimes it is easy to fall into the motions of life. Sometimes it is easy to just forget that we have a huge purpose here and now.

Yet

I challenge you to be bold

I challenge you to speak out

I challenge you to pray

Pray a lot

I challenge you to ask the Lord daily how He can use you

I challenge you to not fall into the motions of life but

Be bold

Be courageous                              

 

And like my Dad tells me 

“Be good and do good work”

 

All you guys are great and really thank you all for caring enough to pray for my team and myself.

God is so good