I believe God is taking care of me and wants to use me more fully to take care of others and share Him with others. The amount I owe for the trip (that I would be physically unable to produce by working a job in the time given) is just another way to submit my self-sufficiency to the One who made me to trust Him in this area. I am excited to see God work. And I am joyfull & greatfull in the ways people have loved me and given toward the mission already. I truely cant express my gratitude enough.
I don’t particularly view myself as a person who worries about much. However, like many other Americans, I am a bit money-minded, and I do struggle with being overly self-sufficient and individualistic. I truly pride myself in how well I can save moolah, and how resourceful and thrifty I can be. (ask anyone who knows me well, I amaze them.)
This is why I am excited to give all of my personal resources for this opportunity & trust God with more than I ever have before.
The process of trusting God financially starts now!!!
In addition to everything I said above, I want to be a person whom I would want to give money to. That means not being frivolous with what I already have. This is an off-the-top summary of things I have been thinking about and what this looks like to me from now leading up to the trip:
Not spending money on extra food (eating out or drinking) or entertainment (movies, large concerts), not buying clothing (I have enough). It’s not that I feel like I have to not spend money in order for God to grant me money, I just want to take this opportunity to be more thrifty, live righteously, and show gratitude.
The amount also doesn’t seem like a lot if you consider that it’s a year long!!! Everything is included: airfare to 11 countries, food, shelter, insurance, training camp, Godly counseling, and more…. I don’t have to worry about anything, except for being focused on what I am doing while there.
Thank you for reading & thank you for your support through prayer and monetary means.
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?a]” 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Matthew 6:25-36
