This past weekend I helped out at a World Race training
camp. It was an awesome opportunity to invest in future World Racers and to be
renewed.
One day, I sat down at a table with some participants for
lunch and a girl said, “You’re Courtney, right?� I had thought that she had
read my name tag, but then realized that she could not have seen it. I came to
find out that she actually had not read my name tag, but had read my blogs. She
knew the names of my teammates and had apparently been following us since
September. Before even really introducing myself, she asked me, “Are you still
planning on going to Kenya?� I used to say if a person talked to me for 5
minutes they would know I had a heart for Kenya… now it seems I don’t even have
to open my mouth. 🙂
Jonathan David Helser led worship at training camp (the same
band that was at The Awakening). At
one point during worship, I was praying the same intercessory prayer for the
Internally Displaced People (IDP) of Kenya that the Lord has placed on my heart
many times over the past couple of years. With my eyes closed, I prayed the
very words that I had cried out to God last September and the band began to
play the song that they had been playing when God released me to go back to
serve IDP in Kenya and it was like I had been transported back to Ireland. Only
this time was different! This time my prayer was not a wishful prayer. This
time my prayer was more than a desperate plea for the Lord to intervene…
because this time I could say WE ARE COMING! And we are bringing HOPE!
We are coming and we have cried.
We are coming and we want to help quench your thirst.
We are coming to bring restoration.
We are coming that you might be empowered to provide for
your children.
We are coming to rise up a generation.
We are coming; We are coming!
And Lord, I know there’s no end to the affection you have
for IDP!
It is incredible what the Lord has done over the past 9
months (since The Awakening) to get me to this place. And even more unfathomable
what He has done to take me from where I was about 2 years ago. I went from not
believing I could ever have an impact at the IDP camps to preparing to move
there for a year and a half, trusting that I will do things that I “would not
believe even if I were told�(from Habakkuk 1:5). As I reflect on this, I feel a renewal of my passion for
God’s call in my life.
Kenya, We are Coming!
