God Already Has It All Mapped Out…

I’m already learning that the World Race is
allowing me to soak up the gift of patience.

I’d like to give you an example of that
with an overview of our first trip to Cooktown. The purpose of going to
Cooktown was to meet up with our awesome contact Carl Musch who started IMLA 
and also to meet up with our squad leaders Kyla and Mark. Below is the overview: 

1. Arrived in Cooktown at 11:30 am to meet our contact at 12pm at
   the Cooktown Bakery Café (Cooktown is 1.5 hour from Wujal). Found out our
   contact wouldn’t be able to meet us with Kyla and Mark for 5 hours or so
   due to car troubles. Here is what car trouble looks like before Cooktown….
2. Our car broke down before we left for Cooktown but the local
   police in Wujal gave us a jump and got it going (Answered prayer). When we
   arrived in Cooktown and turned the car off in the café parking lot, it
   wouldn’t start again. Someone came to look at the car and couldn’t get it
   to work. Hour later it was towed and the mechanic didn’t know if they had
   time to work on it that day.
3. The 6 of us sat at the bakery for 5.5 hours. Ate some good
   food. Enjoyed the AC. Played UNO. Read our bibles. I thought it was great.
   AC is amazing! (AC= answered prayer for me)
4. The Café didn’t have a restroom but our new friends (Rachael
   and Dave) at the hardware store across the street allowed us to use their
   restroom (they call it the toilet here).
5. After stopping in multiple times during the day, we struck up a
   conversation about who we were and what we are doing stuck at a bakery
   café in Cooktown. They asked where we were staying and we let them know
   that was still up in the air and that God would provide. She made a call.
6. Back to the car. The mechanic found time later that afternoon
   to fix the car and we were able to pick it up around 4:30pm. (Answered
   prayer…Praise God!)
7. Back to the housing situation: It just so happened that Dave’s
   parents go to the local Baptist and are very involved. Rachael thought the
   church might allow us to stay for free for a night but she called her
   in-laws (Ron and Beth) and asked them on the spot if they could help.
8. They said yes! (Answered prayer) So, Rachael drew out a map of
   how to get their and we left immediately to head to their house. When we
   arrived at there beautiful home they came out and greeted us like we were
   family. They had 3 empty bedrooms with beds that they allowed us to use.
   We stayed their that night in comfy beds…took showers and were spoiled
   with toast and fruit in the morning. And delicious coffee.
9. Since housing was provided that night we were able to visit
   another aboriginal community with Carl. He took us up to Hope Vale and we
   were able to do a fellowship night with some of the believers their. We
   traveled back to Cooktown for the night to stay at Beth and Ron’s and then
   headed to Hope Vale again in the morning to go fishing. We wouldn’t have
   been able to spend time with the people of Hope Vale if it wasn’t for the
   amazing housing situation. Thank you Ron and Beth for blessing us!
   

RECAP: 
Car broke down (again) at the exact location we needed to be at which
allowed us to enjoy a day inside a bakery café. Car got fixed. We didn’t have a
place to sleep for the night (yet) but random people befriended us and helped
by providing housing and by loving us like family.

God always provides for His children. He is
never late. God is in the details!!!

Thinking about how God always provides and
tells us never to worry made me think about the verses below:

Matthew: 3:31-34

 

**More details to come on Wujal Wujal.