For the past three Sunday’s my church has been learning about building a foundation on grace and truth and the first step in this is faith. We have to take that first step though and it can sometimes be the hardest.
When I first fell under the conviction about The World Race I told God, “Father, if this is where I am suppose to go and if I go through this application process and get accepted, then I will go”. Low and behold, about a month later I got a call saying I had been accepted to this amazing mission field. I remember when I was on the phone with the man telling me I got accepted that all I could do was smile and I shed tears. Tears of joy, that God heard that prayer and saw it fit for me to be a missionary. That God picked ME to do His work.
The days following that phone call Satan went to work. He threw things at me that I had not struggled with in years. Self-worth, fear, anxiety, and doubt. Doubt, that there is no way God would want me to do his work. The man who struggled with depression, self-hurt, alcoholism, and suicidal thoughts. Let me tell you about the goodness of my Heavenly Father. THAT IS EXACTLY WHO HE USES FOR HIS KINGDOM! He uses the hurt, the broken, the adulterer, and murderer to show that those things are in the past but because of God that is where they will stay! When Satan loses someone to the Father he cannot stand it. I am proud to say that I love making the devil lose! There is no better feeling then when the hands of the Heavenly Father wrap around you and hold you.
There is no doubt in my mind that The World Race is exactly what the Father wants me to do. I have never been so sure of anything else in my life. When God directs the way and provides the path it is our job to start stepping and preaching, teaching, and proclaiming the love, grace, truth, and forgiveness of the Lord and Savior all the way! God is stirring in my life and setting fires in my heart and THAT is how I know that God is still moving, even in this crazy time and thing we call life!
My prayer is that someone shares this blog or someone reads it who needs a change in their life, who needs a stirring of the heart, who needs a to know that there is still a Heavenly Father who loves them dearly and all they have to do is ask for Him.
God Bless!
