“God
Is
Not
INTIMIDATED
By
What
Intimidates
Us.” ~A.B. Ayers
Praise God.
Tonight I was broken. I know that God has so very many of those moments of brokenness coming soon in the upcoming months.
As my community was worshiping before our midweek environment, a slide came on the screen for one of the songs… this one slide was preeetttty impactful on me.
I hear the Savior say,
thy strength indeed is small.
child of weakness, watch and pray
find in ME thine ALL in ALL.
It seems like everything spiritual that I hear nowadays, I look at through a “World Race lens”. In other words I may hear a song, quote, verse or sermon and I take said nugget of knowledge and think about it with the trip in the front of my mind. (Which absolutely makes sense, as right now I am solely using my time to prepare for this trip that currently will consume over a year in my life)
Right now I am feeling so overwhelmed. Fundraising. Living situation before the race. Fundraising. Where to be able to live once immediately returning from the race. Fundraising. What to do with my car- sell it or keep it? Shots. Fundraising. What to do with my phone while I’m gone. My work schedules. Fundraising. What items do I need to pack for the race? I only have 65 liters!
I am intimidated to say the least. Obviously, my biggest intimidation right now is fundraising. Buuuttt, that slide went up because God was using it to open my eyes and get me to understand what He has been trying to tell me. I have been trying to do all of my race preparations in my own strength!! That is not going to work. God is relentlessly pursuing me in my own stubborn, blind attempt to do it all myself. Soooo not going to work.
No wonder I am overwhelmed.
I am not a child of weakness. I will not allow myself to continue in depending on my ability to do it all. I will watch and pray for my Father to have His will done. I hope (certain assurance) that God will get me on this race if He wants me to.
I have to have $3,500 in my World Race account in six days. I have $1,400. I need $2,100. Please pray and consider what God would have you do. I can’t do this alone. You’ve heard ‘it takes a village to raise a child’?
well,
it takes a team to send me on my missions trip!
Click the above ‘support me!’ link to help make this missions trip happen.
I am Ashley Albert and I am not saying that I won’t ever fall into relying on my own strength or that I will never be intimidated again, but I will be praying- and I hope you will pray for me too- that God will show me when it happens and I fall, so I can rise up again!
Intimidation is a jail. I want to break free.
God is not intimidated by what intimidates me.
<3 Ash
