“Faithful, You are! Faithful, forever You will be! Faithful, You are! All Your promises are yes and amen!”
-“Yes and Amen,” Housefires III
This song brings to me a reminder of how good and faithful my Jesus is, and that when He promises something, He doesn’t back out of that promise.
I wrote in a blog about two months ago, of a decision I was making so that my mom could come to Thailand for our squad Parent Week. To understand the rest of this blog you should go read it if you haven’t yet! Click here. I was worried about my own fundraising, but I still had faith that God was going to come through and fulfill His promises to me. All He was asking me to do was be obedient and have faith, let him be God, and move on my behalf.
Well, this past week I received a donation of $1,605. Yes, $5 more than that of the donation I had given to my mom so she could come. I couldn’t believe it! God is so good and so faithful. Sometimes it just takes being obedient and forgetting what the world is saying, which is something I also learned when God was asking me to make a big decision about my Race route.
Last year in June He was telling me to switch routes from a January to an October one. I didn’t know why, and it scared me to do so. But I did it, and I shared about it in a blog from that time, click here to read it. Well, recently God revealed why He asked me to do that, and I have been meaning to share that publicly, but kept forgetting to.
We were at our month 6 debrief in Bosnia, and our squad mentor said he had an announcement for us, a route change. My heart stopped beating for a second because I had just read that my old route also had a route change. They were supposed to go to China and Mongolia, but were no longer going to either due to Visa issues. If you know my heart, you know that I deeply want to go to Mongolia. It is a country God placed in my heart many years ago, and it was the main reason I had picked my first route. It was also the reason I picked this route when I changed. So, I didn’t know what do in that moment if I was about to be told that we weren’t going to Mongolia.
He announced that we would no longer be ending our Race in China, but in Sri Lanka. But, when it came to Mongolia…well, we were still going there because Adventures had already purchased our flights there. In that moment, my mouth dropped and I couldn’t help but be excited! I didn’t care that their reason for still sending us there was because they had already purchased our flights, I only cared that we were still going. God is so faithful!
Even now it makes me want to cry thinking about the relief I felt. And incredibly joyful that I made the right decision last year to switch my route. Because if I had doubted that God was speaking to me, I wouldn’t be going to the very country I wanted to go to the most. The country that He has been calling me to. This is how I know my God is faithful. He asks and I do, even though the path he calls me to looks foggy and I can’t see where it leads, and the one that I want to choose is clear and nice and I know where I’m headed…
Because when we listen to what He is asking, He does not lead us astray. And when we don’t listen, He gives grace, because He still loves us no matter what. John 10:26-27, I am one of His sheep; surely, I hear His voice and follow Him. Be encouraged today that you are in the palm of his hands. Just listen to that still, small voice and take the jump. God is always faithful to be there to catch you.
Indeed, His promises are yes and amen.
Love,
Hope
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If you are interested in helping me raise the remaining $600 needed to fully fund me, please check out my mentor Joy’s latest fundraiser she is doing to help me. A raffle for an IPad 2! Link to fundraiser is here.
