Many people have been asking me what specifically they can pray for me for. First of all, I'm so thankful for you all who are dying to know this answer. I have been blessed with a multitude of amazing friends and family! Praise Jesus!
I have a few things that are heavy on my heart that I need prayer for as I'm entering into this next season of my life:
- spiritual warfare – I know that I will have many encounters as my team and I enter into oppressed nations; however, I know that the God I serve is so much greater. Please pray that God will give us strength and courage as we face encounters of various circumstances. My God is not a God of fear!
- safety – this is a typical prayer request for any person who is traveling, but for me and my team, we will be in dangerous parts of third-world countries. Please pray that God's angels will go before, above, below, and surround us as we travel and reach the unreached people groups.
- leadership – as you all know, I'm the leader on my team (Team Collision). I'm so excited and humbled that I was appointed into this position, but it comes with added responsibility. Please pray that God will give me wisdom and discernment towards making decisions that are Godly ones as well as decisions that uplift and empower the entire team.
- comfort – it's ironic that comfort is a prayer request since everything about this next year is getting us out of our comfort zone (and we will be: from sleeping arrangements to food to hygiene), but this has been heavy on my heart for about a year now, that we become too comfortable in settling, which is not something that will be beneficial for ministry. Please pray that our "American mind-set" of entitlement and complacency will flee us and that even during times of extreme exhaustion, we will constantly do everything in mind, body, and spirit to glorify the Lord.
Thank you so much for your constant prayer and support thus far, and please keep me and my team in your thoughts, but more importantly in your prayers.
Love you all :]
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