Let me take you to day one of my World Race. I had just gotten to the Adventures in Missions campus and I had met the people I was going to spend the next 9 months with around a bonfire.
I was absolutely filled with excitement because the journey I had waited years for was finally here, but as I went to my tent that night I was met with a lot of lies and doubts from the enemy. I chose to seek God that night and I was met with so much truth.
I came in prayer to God with questions and the thought that maybe I wasn’t where I was meant to be. Maybe I had misheard God because this didn’t feel right. God met me right there with the truth that He will never leave or forsake me. I didn’t by some huge accident end up sleeping in a tent in Gainesville, GA. He was with me. He had planned this. He was in this journey and filled me with so much peace that night as I leaned on Him and not what felt right.
Sometimes trusting God can sound so easy and simple, but it comes with struggles. Month one I was met with many other feelings that made it a struggle sometimes to choose perseverance, but God gifted me with such a fantastic team and team leader that met me with prayers and the reminder that we shouldn’t lean on feelings but on truth.
If anyone reading this is feeling far from God I want to meet you with encouragement that He is with you. I know how easily doubts and lies can come that God doesn’t hear you or care for you, but he formed you in your mothers womb, chose you before you chose Him, and loves you. I encourage you to look into scripture and surround yourself with truth to combat any lies that God has left you. Friends please hear me when I say, He cares for you.
Through my World Race Journey so far I have learned what it is to fully trust God. To trust when I didn’t have confidence in hearing His voice. To trust when the future is unclear. To trust when I only have His voice and have to give up my understanding. To trust when you have hard hard days. To trust when the plans change and people fail.
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
blessings,
emma
