There were all kinds of emotions coursing through my mind while my stomach churned as the escalator raised me to the main level of the Atlanta airport. My pack was just being dumped onto the conveyor belt when I approached it…
Heave, click, secure. The race was on.
I barely felt my feet moving underfoot as I approached the sea of packs in the atrium that told me I had found my fellow racers, but it was not them that got my attention. A woman who was clearly not a racer had a light around her. Her nodding head and steps backward told me that she was leaving the conversation with the racers, but it was as if God divinely appointed us to meet. Our eyes met. Her eyes sizing up my pack signified that she recognized me as another racer. Without any introduction or hesitation she asked me to pray for her and God’s will for her life. I asked her for her name.
Rosalie
What a beautiful name she bears. What a beautiful soul she has. What a loving gift from God to start my race by ministering to the first person I speak to at the airport. I hadn’t even made it to launch at the hotel yet! I hadn’t even set my pack down. God showed me that this is going to be a race full of him confronting me. He isn’t messing around. He has big plans for me to pour into others, which is what has brought me so much peace.
“And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:7 (ESV)
I cannot express how peaceful I feel. It is completely from God and I have your prayers to thank for that. I want to encourage you to continue to pray for me, but even more than that I want to ask you to invite God to send you a Rosalie for yourself to minister to- while you’re praying for someone to find God’s will for their life God may reveal his will for your own. When I finished praying for her I could see Jesus in her and it was simply beautiful. I want you to experience that. God wants that for you, too.
“Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion.
Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.”
Ephesians 6:18 (NLT)
