I have been praying about this blog post for about a week. Just asking God to put in my heart what to write about. God told me to write about saying “Yes!” to the unknown.
About a year ago I was talking with one of my best friends about mission trips at work. We somehow always got on this topic, and one day she said that I should check out this 11 month mission trip that goes to 11 different countries. After this discussion, I decided to look up Adventure in Missions web site to look at the World Race. I was blown away by all of this information and mostly by the $15,500 it takes to go on the trip, but for some reason I had a peace about this aspect of the race. I remember praying to God and saying “Is this what you have for me? I don’t feel qualified. If this is what you really want me to do, then you need to make it clear as day to me.”
After this talk with God, it wasn’t shortly after that I was starting up the book of Jeremiah. I began reading Jeremiah 1 when God had called him to be a prophet to Judah and he didn’t feel qualified and felt like a “child.”
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
” Ah, Sovereign Lord,” I said, “I do not know how to speak; I am only a child.” But the Lord said to me ” Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the Lord. Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “Now, I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”
In my bible I have written in bold ” TRUST GOD & GO!”
I felt like God was talking right me to in these moments and I simply said “YES!” to His plan, not knowing exactly what this meant. I continued to pray ” God, you have to prepare my heart for this!” God showed up because He is faithful! He brought guest speaker into in church that talked about God sized dreams, He brought people into my life that have been on the World Race, and He surrounded me with people that would shower me with support. This was all because I said “YES!” to something that wasn’t happening for two years but he said “trust me.”
In April of this year, I was overwhelmed with school, and having difficulty really hearing from God so I cried to Him saying ” Is this World Race still apart of your plan for me?” I went to an all women’s conference called Original and the first night God spoke to me through song, and said “Give me your all, this is still my plan, don’t give up on this dream! I won’t let you fail!” I replied back by saying “God take my life, I am yours, my life is yours, use it however you want to, help me to be your hands and feet to serve your Kingdom, I am in it for good with you!.”
So this is where I am now the dream that God put in my heart is now becoming a reality! It still has not set in that I am going, I still cry thinking about the fact that God chose me to be a light in these countries! All I know is that this is God’s plan for me and how different my life would be if I would have said “no.”
Through out this year God is showing me that I am brave, fearless, and courageous. I just have to be willing to go to those places and I can’t let fear grip me to where I don’t follow His calling for my life.
No matter where you are on you walk with God, or what ever your beliefs about God. You can still say “Yes!” to what is in front of you!. Say “YES!” to those God sized dreams, say “YES!” to that job, say “YES!” to building that relationship. What ever fear is holding you back from, say “YES!” right back. Don’t be afraid to fail! God is not a God of failure!
I am placing all my fears about this trip into God’s hand. I am continuing to say “YES!” to God. This is just a glimpse of the plan that God has for my life, I don’t know where I am going, I don’t know what I will be doing, but I do know that it will be beautiful!
In It For Good With Him,
Hope
