Alright, so I have never had a blog or blogged a day in my life, and now I have my own blogging website WHATTT??!!! Please bear with me through this, you beautiful people you.
Everyone reading this may or may not know that I am apart of The World Race Gap Year program. I am on route 5, which means I am going to be serving in the following beautiful countries: Haiti, Dominican Republic, Philippines, South Africa, and Botswana. I am SO SO SO happy, excited, ecstatic, overwhelmed, and I could list many many more emotions, but you get it. I can’t wait to hit the ground running full speed, and I definitely can’t wait to do it with ALL of you guys. I am so looking forward to this amazing opportunity, I can not even put it into words.
Ok, so on with the blog….
Moving into 2017, I had many built up stresses over all of the usual senior things to be stressed over. I was very caught up in trying to figure my life out, that I completely forgot that I was not in control of my life. I tossed the name above all names to the side for a little bit because you know, Alyssa Cone is strong enough and smart enough to go through all of this alone HAHAHA NOT. I quickly realized my own earthly strength was not enough. I did not come to that realization by myself, I was at the Passion Conference when He hit me. And when I say “He” I mean He, the giver of life, our Father, our Savior, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, etc etc etc.
He transformed my heart in that dome. WOW what a life changer.
For weeks after the conference, I prayed the same prayer and stated the same scripture every single day. Psalm 32:8,” God will instruct me and teach me in the way I should go. He will guide me with His eye”
See, I have always had this fear that God never heard me when I prayed or He just didn’t want to listen to me. But boy was I wrong!!!! In the midst of praying and listening, He brought my attention to the World Race. I was on Instagram when I saw a link to the website. I scrolled through the website and thought to myself,” That is an awesome opportunity for people, but I was not one of those people.” I pretty much talked myself into believing that I’m not good enough to go and share the gospel with thousands when I have such a long walk of faith ahead of me. I mean, I’m just learning the ways, how am I supposed to go and serve others?? So, I just brushed it off. I did not take this as a sign from God. Through that same week, I kept going back to the website and reading more and more. Then, I decided to specifically pray about The World Race. After about two days praying on it, I had a very very clear answer.
Alright, this is kind of a back story. I travel to Haiti every year and serve for about a week out of my summer. I love it more than anything. Haiti has a huge part of my heart. As everyone knows, Haiti endured a massive earthquake in 2010, leaving everything and everybody in chaos and suffering. Personally, I wasn’t aware of the specific date that it happened, I just knew what year it the earthquake hit.
Now, we are back in the present, the day was January 12, 2017. So I was reading a lot into the countries each route went to. I saw Haiti on one of the routes, and of course I was drawn to it. There was a blurb on each country talking about what the natives struggle with and what goes on in the country. HERE’S THE EXCITING PART(I decided to put those words in all caps and bold them to make sure you guys are still awake, anddd because the following words are important). In the Haiti blurb, the opening sentence stated something like this,” On January 12, 2010 Haiti was struck with a massive earthquake..” WAIT WHAT? WHAT DAY IS IT AGAIN? Oh myyy, IT’S JANUARY 12, 2017 TODAY!!! So God, you mean Haiti was hit with that earthquake on this exact day 7 years ago?
In that moment, God answered every single prayer I had. He made it clear as day. Tears of joy were streaming. So, if anyone is still reading, that is how and why I am taking a hold of this opportunity and not letting it go. This is only the beginning.
Aodhan King said,” Everyone’s on a journey, everyone’s searching, everyone does have a purpose, but you can fulfill that purpose so much greater when you connect with the source of life itself, does everything make sense? Absolutely not, but I think more stuff doesn’t make sense without him.”
“Sing to the Lord, all of the earth; proclaim His salvation day after day. Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous deeds among all peoples” 1 Chronicles 16:23-24
If you are reading this sentence, that means you stuck around to read my whole post!! Therefore, thank you! Thank you for reading this and supporting me. It means everything! I will be blogging about once a month with all sorts of news. Please please feel free to ask me questions, suggest things, and donate!! You guys all rock;) Hugs for all.
Lyss<3
