So there is this thing called Project Searchlight that happens for each squad about 2 months after they return home from the World Race. What it is, is a 5 day conference or event that is put on by Adventures in Missions here in Gainesville Georgia that allows for squad mates to reunite, fellowship and take in awesome praise and worship along with hearing many different speakers. The talks would go from talking on professional networking to hearing the Holy Spirit’s leading better. There were also many opportunities during the week to sit down one on one with some pretty influential people within Adventures in Missions and other organizations to either be encouraged or seek out different opportunities.
Personally, I looked at this week as a means to really just see a few friends, but little did I know God had something more for me there.
Once I got there I felt like I should really take advantage of a few of these different things to sign up for so I signed up for a few one on one talks and then also signed up to go to the prophetic room. At the time I had no idea what I was getting myself into with this prophetic stuff at all.
Before you write this off as some weird prophecy thing, hear about what this actually means from the Word, which was something that I just recently learned.
1 Corinthians 14:3-5 But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort. Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, but the one who prophesies edifies the church. I would like every one of you to speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be edified.
So instead of what the dictionary says about prophecy in that its proclaiming something about the future, prophesying according to the bible in 1 Corinthians is really about speaking encouraging truth into another persons life that will strengthen and comfort them moving forward.
So I went into the room for my scheduled 15 minute slot of time. There were 3 people there I had never met before who once I sat down only asked me what my name was and that was it. We sat there in silence as they listened to what they felt the Lord was telling them for about a minute. After that minute they then took turns sharing what they saw in me.
It was all very encouraging and interesting to me, but it didn’t really hit a nerve or hit my heart in anyway….yet.
Fast forward a few days to the day after I got home, Monday January 19th, the first day back working for the University of Manitoba’s Natural Resources Institute as a geographic information systems technician (map guy). Except this time I had a pretty sweet gig… so I thought. They liked me enough to let me work from home this time! This meant that I didn’t have to do the daily 1.5 hour long round-trip commute to the University. All this would save me time and money. Pretty awesome right?!
It wasn’t.
How is this even something that I would want? Not that the job was bad, but the setting was. How would I even consider going from spending a year doing absolutely everything with people from cooking, cleaning, eating, and working to now doing nothing with people and sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours a day, and in my room no less!
So I made the call back to Adventures in Missions after already once saying no, to ask a question.
I thought I had too much going on at home. I thought I had so many commitments, i thought that my friends needed me, i thought and thought and thought and at the end of the day it was really just my assumptions of what everyone was expecting of me but probably weren’t expecting at all. I let those false expectations make me hesitate. I couldn’t keep letting what I thought everyone else needed from me and actually start thinking about what was good for me.
My question; “Is it still possible for me to come to Centre for Global Action for one semester?”.
They said yes along with “We will see you in 6 days.”
Yikes!
So I embarked on one of the most last minute decisions I have ever followed through on; leaving home two months after I had just returned home to travel to Gainesville Georgia to continue to be equipped and to see more of what God is doing and doing in me. This is all considering my very logical mind and not being prepared financially really at all.
The Father asks us continually to trust him and thats what a life with Him is really like. So, I’ve taken these few months to really lean on him, and its been challenging, but it has been great.
My prophetic words:
“You can either step out in faith and confidence into something new or you can stay where you are and go back to what you were doing.”
“Its what He has always had for you.”
“You are a man and you can make your own decisions; its not going to be easy but He is with you.”
