Before we start this story, here’s some context. At Launch, some of the leadership there created a resource for all of the Racers to use to help collect and potentially share some of their experiences while they are on the field, and to also have as a personal keep-sake from the Race. Essentially, it’s a journal with a bunch of prompts that help you remember certain things about each month’s ministry (i.e., country, dates, currency, local language, ministry partner’s name(s), their location, and the ministry contacts), the spiritual growth from the month, and to also reflect. One of the reflection spaces is entitled “go deeper.” For my first month, I chose the prompt: what have you learned about trusting God. The following is my original response (italicized) and an extended reflection on the topic (not italicized).
While reading through The Autobiography of George Mueller (a book that my college mentor gave me as a graduation present) this month, I am amazed about how God will and is ready to act. Mueller went from a life of great sin to spending hours a day communing with God, starting an institute for spiritual growth & discipleship, and opened multiple orphanages & schools that are supplied solely by God and the generosity of others. Trusting God calls for humility and faith. We have been called to be image bearers of the Most High God, but to do so we have to surrender who we believe ourselves to be so that we can live out our true identity. We have to humble ourselves and have faith that God will neither leave us nor forsake us so that we are truly capable to do the things that He has called us to do on His behalf.
This month, with the Dominguez girls in and out of the hospital, I entrusted their health and healing to the Lord. I am also entrusting the remainder of my fundraising because I know that I am incapable of ushering their healing and my funding. I feel like Paul penned some eternal truths when he wrote to the church in Corinth a second time: “But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (II Corinthians 12:9-10). When I was actively and regularly raising support, I tried so hard to encourage, persuade, convince people that I am worth their money. Yes, I was successful in gathering donations, but now that I am not actively and regularly support raising I have to rely on God to encourage His children to support me in the work that He has called me to do. Now that I am not, I have had multiple friends reach out to me and tell me that they want to support me even if they have previously supported me financially.
I’m not writing this to tell you to donate so that I can continue the World Race, but to tell you that I am relying on God to strengthen my faith in Him as I pursue the work He has called me to do. But, don’t get me wrong, I would greatly appreciate if you would consider supporting me financially. This is just a mere trial of faith, and I am relying on the God of infinite abundance to foot this bill if it is in accordance to His will (heard that from someone on my route who dropped).
“With every fresh trial, faith either increases by trusting God and getting help, or it decreases by not trusting Him. A habit of self-dependence is either defeated or encouraged. If we trust in God, we do not trust in ourselves, or fellowmen, circumstances, or in anything else. If we do trust in one or more of these, we do not trust in God” (The Autobiography of George Mueller, 158-159).
May you have faith to pursue His will for your life,
Angie Moore
Prayer Requests:
- That my teammates, squamates, and myself do not get malaria while we are in Haiti,
- That the political unrest will not cause any bodily harm to anyone in the country, and
- The political unrest will end quickly and effectively so as to meet and address the needs of the people and the government.
Praise Reports:
- I am more than 80% funded ($14,749),
- My team and ministry contacts were not harmed by some of the most recent political unrest in Port-au-Prince, and
- I love my ministry site this month a lot (the people, the language, and the culture).
