For the past two weeks we have been debriefing how our trip has gone thus far and doing some more training on what it will look like in the future.
This has been both awesome and challenging. Awesome, because I love how the trip has been going and training was great. The challenging part has been coming to grips with areas of insecurities and familiar lies that I have believed that are brought to my attention by this new season of life.
I really started to struggle with processing in Taiwan because I started to let the areas that I was seeing in me that need growth become all consuming in my mind. I started to give in to the lies that I’m not someone people enjoy having around and that I was becoming a frustration and a bother to my squad.
At some point I came to the conclusion that I was going to the Devil and asking him how I was doing at following God and loving others. I was doing this by trusting my fears over the Word of God. I was letting my flesh push from my mind the fact that God is not only the Author but also the Perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 12:2).
So during worship a few days ago, I released to God the things that I had been “asking” how I was doing at life and chose to receive the Lord’s affirmation instead. I came to the conclusion that I am no longer going to passively allow myself to over assess my actions and internally criticize myself but I am going to reject the voice of criticism and go to the Lord to understand who I am in Him instead. This is has brought me a lot of peace and joy. Please pray that I continue to walk in that.
Fun pictures
Our awesome hosts that we had in Japan!
This was my capsule at the hostel we stayed at overnight in Tokyo on our way to Taiwan
The view from our hostel balcony in Taipei (last two pictures)
Where we are now
We arrived in Toucheng, Taiwan, yesterday afternoon and we will be here for 16 days. We are working with a YWAM team that is establishing there base here. There are seven Germans from a YMCA internship in Hong Kong that are staying in various places in town with our ministry host this week, as well. All of this is making for some really awesome ministry community that I can’t wait to see what the Lord will do with it!
Prayer requests
- Pray for our team as we learn how the Lord is leading us as a team for the next two weeks in this town.
- Also please pray that that I trust the Lord over the insecurities that I have listened to in the past about who I am.
- Lastly, and really exciting news for us. Meghan, our alumni team leader, is staying with us for the whole year instead of just the three months that she originally committed to!!! So please pray for her to have favor for the increase in the funds she needs to raise and wisdom for what the rest of the year is going to look like.
her blog can be found at https://meghanmurray.theworldrace.org/
Thank you all so much for you prayer and for commenting on my blog it means so much to me! I hope things are going well for you all back home and each of you has a blessed Valentines Day.
I love you all!!!
