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Our nation has been ready for revival, and I want to be a part of it.
In January 2020, I’ll be launching out with The World Race: America. This is an 11-month missions trip going to over 30 states across the US, helping with practical needs (including, but not limited to needs in homeless shelters, anti-trafficking ministries, youth camps, service projects, and food pantries) while praying for and expecting huge spiritual breakthroughs in this nation. (click here for a short video!)
The Lord has lit and been awakening a flame in my heart for revival in this generation. I attend a church where there is a delightful mix of older folks, families, and young people. The older generation incites a sadness and a jealousy in me. The older generation has seen and been a part of a revival and moves of God that my generation is still dreaming about.
And that feels so unfair to me.
I’ve started to find myself on the edge of tears dreaming about the Holy Spirit moving so strongly in my generation that we actually change the world. Well… that the Lord changes the world, but He can only do that with willing participants. Bold warriors filled with the Spirit, with obedient and humble hearts, with hands ready to serve and feet ready to go. Seeing that dream come to fruition starts with a single step forward.
Taking a step is not always particularly difficult. Sometimes, when the Lord calls on us to take a ‘leap of faith’, we take only take a small step; we squeeze our eyes shut and clench our fists and shuffle our feet forward. Sometimes we end up taking the leap kicking and screaming. And then sometimes we take that leap running and diving head-first off a cliff Pocahontas-style. It’s bold and it’s reckless. And it’s done with complete trust that God is going to catch you.
Sometimes I don’t want to obey the Lord and take that leap of faith. I don’t feel ready. I feel scared, nervous, anxious. Ya know, all the things.
But this time I want to take that leap. I want to jump recklessly out of my own understanding and into His. I want to run boldly out of my comfort zone and onto the path of growth He has for me. I still don’t feel ready; I’m still nervous. But the anxiety is replaced by excitement, and the fear is fading into anticipation. I’ve heard it said that “God doesn’t call the equipped, God equips the called.”
I really can’t tell you when I started to feel called to ministry and missions in my life, I don’t know when it happened. I know I’ve been called to go places in different seasons in my life. I know I’m called to accomplish certain things for the Lord at different times. But mostly I know I’m called to obey, even if it feels reckless and a little bolder than I am.
The World Race:America is a little reckless. I’ll be living out of a backpack for 11 months, road-tripping the US praying for revival and serving others. I don’t have the funds for it, and I also have very little upper body strength. It’s bold. This is the first team World Race is sending into America like this, so my team will be the ‘first generation’ of World Race: America. We’re pioneers!
And it’s absolutely what I should be doing right now in this season of my life. You could say it’s the Lord’s perfect 20/20 vision for me. (Get it? Cuz it’s 11 months and I ship out in January 2020, and then perfect eyesight is 20/20, ya know? I think I’m funny… click to subscribe!)
My expectations for this trip: To see people set free, broken hearts restored, to see spiritual walls broken down, addictions vanquished, physical deformities healed. To see the love of Jesus manifest in the lives of my generation, and then overflow and pour out into the rest of this nation. I have a suspicion that God is going to shatter these expectations. He usually does.
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