Back at training camp at the beginning of August a thought
occurred to me, “Your support money will come from people you do not know.”
This was extremely random and I was new at my gifting and did not realize that
the Lord was actually giving me words of knowledge.
6 weeks later (one week before we launched) I was informed
that it was crunch time. There was certain amount of money I need to have in 5
days and I didn’t have it. It appeared as though I would be launching with the
January team and not with the October team. Literally, I was at $1600 in my
support account and I needed $6900 in order to leave. I thought, “There is no
way, but Lord I am trusting you. Your timing is better than my own.” Then I get
a phone call from Ashley, Jimmy, Casey and the rest of the staff at the office.
They begin to tell me that if I had $5000 in my support account they would let
me launch. Ashley tallied it up and I was literally at $5001. 98% of that money
came from people whose names I had never heard before. Yet I knew them. The
Lord had told me about them. I knew it was coming in. No doubt. I just didn’t
know when. Step by step the Lord had shown me patience, understanding, his
timing, and has been building my faith and trust in him with every obstacle
that is presented my way. The new obstacle is that I might have to leave the
race early because there isn’t enough money in my support account to get me to Eastern Europe. This is an immediate need since tickets
will be purchased in the upcoming week.
In Acts 10 Cornelius receives a vision from the Lord telling
him to find Peter in Joppa, and that Peter would speak and he and his family
would be saved. Peter also receives a vision about the clean and the unclean.
He was wondering about the meaning of this vision when the men that Cornelius
sent arrived. It is when Peter arrives at Cornelius’ house that he understands
what the Lord is saying. God takes two strangers and makes things perfect.
Peter answered a call and it led him to the door of reaching out and unlocking
the kingdom for all the Gentiles. Cornelius’ family hears and they received
baptism of the Holy Spirit and then of water. A step of faith and trust was
taken.
Who says that strangers can’t help each other out? If Peter
had dismissed the Lord’s prompting, God would have chosen someone else to
unleash the power of his love on the Gentiles, because getting His word to the
Gentiles was part of God’s plan. Peter trusted the Lord. He knew the Lord had a
plan for him, even if it seemingly went against his beliefs. The Lord assured
him that it was okay and that his hand was in it.
Are you my perfect stranger? As you have been reading the
blogs over the past 4 days has God put a prompting in your heart to give. You
might be waiting and thinking, “someone else will step to the plate and give.”
I have thought that many times myself. What if you’re that one? The one like
Peter who will open the door to the word continuing to be spread in places
unimaginable. Is he asking you to be one of the strangers that gives to fulfill
his word to me? I don’t know, but you do. You hear from him. He speaks to you.
You know. You feel it.
