Currently I’m basking in the beautiful rays of the sun that rose over the Smokey Mountains in North Carolina!
Yesterday, Elsie and I started our trek to Georgia for training camp for the World Race! It finally is here and we are ready, or so we think anyway! It’s a day I’ve been looking forward to with much anticipation and nervous energy. I’ve been thinking about the World Race for the last 8-9 months and this is finally the first step in actually getting to meet my squad and mentors. God has led me so far and He will continue to lead!
This is something I remind myself of daily – God’s got this! Last Sunday, I asked my small church to pray for me. The week leading up to training camp where all the preparations took place looked bigger to me than the actual training camp. Most of this was due to the sense I got that the enemy was going to use this week to feed me multiple doubts and insecurities. He was planning an attack, but I ‘got wind of it’ and called on my church full of prayer warriors. Together we squashed that attack to the ground! My week turned out to be awesome! Yes, it was busy; yes, I thought about things I had no answers to; yes, I was worrying a few things in circles; but I knew the enemy was defeated and I could rationally make good decisions with the Lord by my side. Just yesterday I heard an amazing confirmation of this: ’In our spiritual battles, we are protected by the only Person that Satan has never defeated!’ Amen & Hallelujah!!!
These next 10 days are full of a few vague pictures I get from reading other racers blogs. But the picture also has a lot of question marks and unknowns. But most importantly I sense a lot of God-moments ahead for me! Yes, Lord!!
So, I ask you, my prayer warriors, to pray! Pray that my cup stays turned up so it can overflow; pray that God will change me as He sees fit; pray that I’ll have an open mind to all the new things I’ll learn; pray that I’ll get to know and become family to my squad mates; pray that through this I can be used of God in mighty ways for His glory!
Sometimes I worry about the questions I’ll be asked. Or I’ll be asked to explain something I honestly don’t have an explanation for. But God’s got this too! He’ll provide those words as I need them.
’Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.‘ Ephesians 6:19-20
