God often moves in ways we don’t understand. And not only do we not understand it, buts its more often than not totally not in our timetable.
For those of you in my community, those I pour out my heart to, you know how much of a struggle these last two months have been for me. Trying to prepare my heart for this missions trip, loosing an incredible friend and wrestling with grief and anger, wondering how in the world I was going to raise over $12,000, personal areas of bondage, and just life in general.
For the last two months, I have felt incredibly overwhelmed. I have felt like wave after wave was crashing over me and I was sure I was going to drown. If I can be honest, raising money for this missions trip was not of high importance. I was exhausted, overwhelmed, and defeated in almost every area of life. Forget even putting effort into raising money.
HOWEVER, praise be to the Lord, MY God, who does not need my strength or my help. He has been working behind the scenes, moving and stirring other peoples hearts to come along side and take care of my needs. In the last two months, I have had over $7500 in donations come in.
As of this morning, I have received $11,116. In order to be fully funded, I must be at 12,491, This is only 1375 more!! I am forced to take a moment and glorify the God above. He has taken care of me even when I was wrestling with him through other areas in my life. He told me at the very beginning of this journey that He would take care of it, and He has and continues to do so. Thank goodness He does not depend on anything from me.
I am blessed by the many people who have given. I am incredibly thankful to be the recipient of people’s obedience to the Lord. I am honored to be apart of what God is doing.
Like I said above, I need $1375 more to be fully funded for this trip. I am also praying for an extra $1200 in money personally given to me in order to buy the rest of the supplies that I need(such as a camera, external hard drive, sleeping bag liner, tent, air porter, etc) and for personal money to have for anything I will need to buy while I am on the race. This ranges from buying personal hygiene items when I run out, to eating an ice cream cone on a 110 degree day to buying extra clothes to fit the dress code to going white water rafting.
I have complete confidence that God will bring in the exact amount of money that I need. He has shown up all over the map in the last couple of months. He continues to show his faithfulness again and again despite my unbelief.
