6 months has finished, my World Race is now more than half way over! Its amazing how fast time has gone, and yet how much is still to be done.
This past 6 months has been such a shaping and sculpting time in my life. I have grown in so many ways: like to love and to be loved, to continually walk by faith and not by sight, to trust God…not just saying that I trust Him, but living out that I trust Him (2 very different things!)
I have learned more about myself than you probably want to read right now so I’ll get to the juicy stuff:)
One way that the Lord has used more than almost anything else is leading a team of 5 incredible woman. My team, Segullah, “the chosen ones of the Lord, His treasured possession” have truly become a family.
We do basically everything together! laugh, cry, pray, worship, encourage, sleep, minister, and did I say laugh!! We know how to enjoy life:) I have been so blessed and challenged by each of them in countless ways and have loved every minute being their leader. Our team has grown in faith, love, and trust in the Lord by leaps and bounds. Somedays I look at them and can’t believe what the Lord has done in them and how He uses our team to bless so many lives around the world. It seems that the Lord is always refining us or shaping our characters.
God has been challenging my faith in Him lately and asking me to trust Him.
He is saying, “Bethany do you trust me in any circumstance? “
Sometimes I’m like ya God I trust you in this, then he does something else to deepen my faith and trust. That something else happened this weekend, He wants me to give Him more and so I will.
Yesterday I was asked if I could be willing to step down as a leader and let Leyna get the chance to lead for a season. The World Race is about empowering others and challenging parts in people that need to be challenged. I believe in that and want that to happen.
So with that, Leyna has accepted the new position as team leader for Segullah. I am so proud of her willingness to let the Lord use her and to watch how she will bring things to our team that I couldn’t. Although, I will greatly miss leading, I believe that the Lord wants me to experience Him in a new way, and if that is by following then I will follow.
This past 6 months as Segullah’s leader has been one of the best opportunties that I could have been given. It was something I could have never changed and am so thankful for the time I was given as their leader. I will praise God for all He did in and through me.
Please be lifting our team up in prayer as the enemy wants to cause division and jealousy. Pray for wisdom for Leyna to lead and for the Lord to help the transition go smoothly and create a stronger team.
I trust God’s plans, its not about me, but Him!
