This will be more or less short and to the point, but is something I wanted to put more emphasis on than just fitting it into the last blog. But, as you know we were in the northern part of the Dominican Republic right as Hurricane Maria smacked it in the face. It was an interesting 3 days.
The first night it started though was our all squad worship night. We were in the pavilion where we ate our meals and Ashley (the other person leading worship with me) and I were frantically ripping through sheet music and songs on our phones trying to figure out which songs to do for worship as I tend to wait until the last minute to do things and it is just pouring. It was definitely some of the hardest rain I had ever experienced. We were worried no one would hear us as we were about to pray because of the tin roof and the insane amounts of wind but our mindset was that a little water and wind ain’t gonna stop us from praisin’ our Lord and savior.
So I started to pray and open us into worship and I don’t remember a thing I said in that prayer. God took over my words and I just began to yell prayers over the wind. We started to strum and noticed the wind started to die down, the rain wasn’t as hard, and all I could think was wow, how awesome is it to serve a God that literally controls the wind and the rain.
It was amazing to be able to hear the praises everyone on our squad was shouting at the top of their lungs and is so far my favorite experience on the race. The fact that no one cared we were in the middle of a hurricane. I had people walk up to me asking “We’re still having worship, right?” when I was expecting them to ask “We aren’t doing worship anymore, right?”. For myself I was thinking worship was going to be called off and that was me being doubtful and foolish, thinking that a hurricane could surpass the Glory of God.
God is BIG, and He truly revealed that to me that night. It was such a beautiful thing for me to hear in my moments of doubt. It doesn’t matter the flashy lights and amplifiers, it doesn’t matter the people or the place, because when it comes down to it, the only thing that matters is if 100% of the Glory is going straight to God. It’s not about you, like at all. I went from a place of thinking “Cool, I get to lead worship in front of everyone since I play guitar and sing” to being humbled and realizing that God gave me these talents to sing praises for Him. God will use you in a mighty way, you just have to be willing to accept His plan.
