Wow! I don’t even know how to write this post, I am still in shock and awe over everything that has happened this week! So one week and four days ago I was working and planning a weekend of events to try and raise the remaining $3,113 I needed to make the deadline in order to launch! I started praying with intention like one of my fellow squadmates told me to. I prayed to God and I thanked him for surprising me with the amounts I would raise that week. I thanked him for allowing me to have a successful weekend. I thanked him for helping me reach my deadline. I thanked him before I even received, because I believed that He could make it possible.
That saturday I had a yard sale. I made $240! Wow, awesome! On sunday I spoke in front of my church and told them about my mission trip and vision. I had a booth and so many people came up and signed up for prayer support! Amazing! I didn’t expect to gain any money at my open house that day. Boy was I wrong. Several people came to my open house and I was able to openly answer questions and tell them about my mission. By the end of that day I had $1,250 more!!! Wow! Thank you Lord! So amazing!
Then started one of the hardest weeks I’ve had in a while. Work was exhausting, and there was tension. I was so tired but couldn’t fall asleep at night. Then Robin Williams died! The story of how he died really hit a cord with me, and I started having flashbacks to my days of depression, and I started feeling down for the remainder of the week. But still God kept showing his mercies to me. I prayed and asked God to ease my anxiety. He did in a few ways.
I raised another $1,000! wow! amazing!! that brought me up to $2,250. I was still short of my goal though. Thats when he started really showing up. On thursday I was feeling down still and had a really hard day of work, and I was just exhausted and ready to be done. That evening I received a phone call from my church, they wanted to donate another $1,000 to me!! Wow! But there was a problem, they weren’t sure they could do an online donation, which was the only way for it to get there in time for the deadline! So I got home and I got online and asked my squad to pray! I asked them to pray for my finances as well as my anxiety!
I woke up the next morning with a smile on my face!! Their prayers overnight for my anxiety worked, and I felt nothing but joy! And I could feel their prayers through the space!! Later that day I found out that the church was able to send in the money online! That meant that I was well over the amount I needed to reach my goal! Praise God! But the gifts kept coming! At training camp I lost my sleeping pad and I’ve been trying to locate it since, because I don’t want to spend another $100 for a new one. I received another email that day that they found my sleeping pad and would return it to me when I get to Atlanta!!! Praise God!!!
In summation….. GOD IS GOOD!! And he will do immeasurably more than I can imagine!! And prayer? Prayer is powerful!! Pray with intention, pray without ceasing, pray for and with our brothers and sisters! Prayer is the strongest weapon we have so lets use it!! I am happy to announce that I am 50% funded!! 😀 Don’t stop praying!!!
