My last day in Swaziland, I was throwing up and very sick for about 4 hours. My first day in India, I was throwing up at the hotel in Hyderabad during our orientation on the culture of India. Yesterday and today I have been sick once again and extremely tired. I had to sit out today and not go to ministry with my team, which was not fun at all. I don’t ever get this sick and I think I’m the one who has been sick the most on my squad, so it’s been baffling me. It very well may be an attack by the enemy because he knows how effective I can be right now. One of my close friends prayed with me and shared that it also might be partly the Lord’s way of making you cling tighter to Him and to seek your identity more in Him than what you do. But, the good news is “The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.” -Romans 8:11
So many racers before us have said that their month in India was without a doubt their hardest month on the World Race, but this month we are praying for God to move like we’ve never seen before. As a team, the moment we stepped foot in India, we had a really good feeling about this month.
We are going to live dangerously for the sake of the Gospel. We are committed to stepping out in obedience when the Holy Spirit wants us to do the uncomfortable and even weird things. It’s time for us to pray big prayers. We are going to be risk-takers. But the cool thing is… the Bible doesn’t say the word “risk.” Nothing is done by risk when you follow God’s will; it’s done by faith. Despite our circumstances we are holding each other accountable to always be thankful and in the midst of difficulty, we will continue to follow God. When you reach those points, it’s when Jesus fills you up the most. It has been said that months 3-5 on the World Race, people experience brokenness or adversity of some sort. We may be just scratching the surface with this I’m not sure. I feel the Lord has released me to lead fearlessly and my confidence has never been higher in Him. I really am in a good place right now.
This month, my team has grown so much and really stepped up to the plate. We are really pressing in and loving each other and calling one another to greatness. I’m seeing the importance of dying to self and looking out for other’s interest rather than mine. The cool thing is when I do that… someone else on my team is looking out for my interest. We are finally living under the same roof, so we are learning how to live with each other. It’s been great so far!
The travel day from Hyderabad to Bangalore deserves a blog in itself. Our day-to-day ministry is at Jireh Trust Children Home here in Bangalore. I will post a separate blog about ministry and what we have been doing sometime soon.
Please keep us in your prayers for strength, recovery, and that there will be no more sickness on our team. As we continue on this journey ask that you join me in this prayer: “Jesus do anything you need to do in me so that you can do everything you want to do through me.”
Thank you for all your support and encouragement you have shown me this year. I am forever grateful.
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.
-1 Corinthians 9:19-23
