Word are priceless.
Or maybe not always.
I learned this lesson a couple months ago when I was preparing a Blog about my need for financial support to make my second World Race deadline. I posted the Blog entitled “What if I go Home” and it got over 700 views. To be honest a catchy title will draw people to read it, but I always believed that it’s your words that keep them reading and compel their hearts to move in action. Imagine my surprise when after expressing that need in my Blog I received only a few donations. I literally thought “well maybe I didn’t write well enough, should I have said more”? It wasn’t until all 5 of my teammates at the time posted blogs about my situation that money from People I didn’t even know all over the Country started to pour in!
I believed somewhere that the power lay within my Words. How wrong was I.
About a week later I was told by my coach here to ask a fellow squad mate about her testimony in becoming fully funded almost overnight. So I asked, believing her testimony would encourage me, and it surely did. She reminded me that after I had written and posted my blog “What if I come home” she read it, and asked if she could use it because she felt the exact same way, and needed the same amount of money. I told her of course, and thought nothing else of it. Well apparently after that a man and his wife from her community read the blog, and felt led by the LORD to fully fund her for $8000. She told me they said to her that she shouldn’t have to worry about money while out serving the LORD.
Wait, my blog?
I was astounded! I had been so wring in my thougts. It was not the power of my words that made him or other people give, I realized it was something else. Over 700 people, and then this one couple had read the exact same words, about the exact same situation and it had produced two different things. I realized in that moment what no matter what I say, or ask for really it lies in the Hands of GOD and the hearts of those He has called to be senders to the Harvest to support a missionary, and keep them on the Field. My testimony, and the length of time it has taken me, the fact that there were missed and extended deadlines all point to GODs Grace in my life, and His TOTAL WILL for me to be here. I have honestly not made one deadline in time, and yet GOD has kept me right here, through miracle after miracle to serve His children, by using people to support the cost.
It takes a village to raise and child, and a community to mobilize a missionary.
I am in no way downplaying the people who have SO GRACIOUSLY supported what GOD is doing through this journey, but my prayer for my community back home, for African Americans in general is that we get more engaged in spreading the GOSPEL to the Nations, that we recognize it as a mandate, and essential to the Christian Faith Walk.
So I am asking that you once again search your heart, and ask GOD is He calling you? Calling you to support this journey, or even Calling you to GO on one of your own? I NEED $3,000 by the beginning of January to continue this journey, and then I too will be fully funded. Praise GOD! I trust my Father and His servants, and I realize that if GOD didn’t provide another penny for this trip I would know that His will was done, and come home. But yet something in my heat tells me He will, and I will join my brothers and sisters as we move to Africa next month, and continue to Serve there.
Be strong and encouraged my Brothers and Sisters! Keep The Faith!
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2 Corinthians 5:6-7 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight.
