I am finally in Gainesville, Georgia serving under the Apprenticship program with Adventures In Missions! In just a little over one week, A LOT has happened…I mean A LOT. Many books to read and meetings to attend. The team keeps shifting. Ministry partners are up in the air for Thailand. It has felt like the first week of school with information overload.
Now I know this is not what I signed up for. God specifically brought me to team Thailand because of the ministry partner in there. My heart was set. Fists clenched around this idea. I had been spreading the news of the vision for Thailand. Excitement exuded from my bones.
Day one, without delay, everything I had come to understand, in regards to Thailand, was stripped out from beneath me. BOOM! No more holding on to what I had percieved. "We are going to love the Burmease, but listen to God's heart for them", was what I heard.
On top of all this, day 2, I had a meeting with those over the Initiatives. We began speaking and God pretty much said through a staffer , "Oh yeah and Amy, inspite of everything…if you are willing, you are going to lead my people".
What the heck?! I do not even know what is going on anymore. Confusion. AND now God wants me to lead this team?! I guess it was only a matter of time because back in Thailand God told me I would lead the team. I said He had to make it happen because I sure was not going to speak up because I have been down that path many times. Through a series of events and confirmations on the AIM side, God made it known. He is faithful.
In the midst of everything that is going on, God keeps bringing me back to two different Proverbs. The first is 3:5-6, "TRUST in the Lord with ALL your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge HIM and He will make your PATHS Striaght." The other one is 19:21, "Many are the plans in a human's heart, but it is the LORD'S purpose that prevails."
You see, I came onto this team with human plans,with my plans. Day one, they were ripped away. I did not and still do not understand.
As the week progressed on God kept whispering "Amy, are you going to trust me? Not just simple trust, but will you TRUST me with ALL your heart? My love, do not try to lean on your own understanding. It will exhaust you and you will not get anywhere. Rather in all that you do, my love, acknowledge ME and I will make your PATHS straight. It is my purpose that ALWAYS prevails…come my love, rest in me. I got this. Thailand is in my hands. Burma is in my hands. Seek me for I know the plans I have for you. Simply come, listen, obey and TRUST me."
So here I am, trusting God. I am trusting that He will lead us to people in Thailand to partner up with, where we can love, empower and fight alongside these Burmese Refugees. I am trusting that God will bring more team members to our clan of 3. I am excited for (my) our human plans to get out of the way and to watch God simply b.e. G.o.d. I am resting in the fact that God loves these people so much more than we, I, can ever fathom. He has a purpose and it will prevail. God's got this.
Thank you so much for your support both financially and via prayers. None of this would be possible without YOU!!
