In the Philippines I wrote
a blog about how God let me hang out with the Homeless World Cup team from the
Philippines. I used the verse from Psalm 37, “Delight yourself in the LORD and
he will give you the desires of your heart.� At that time, I thought that was
the coolest thing. I couldn’t imagine God doing something that cool again.
I think somewhere in the
Bible it also says, “ye of little faith…�
God continues to give me
the desires of my heart. Often times I didn’t even realize they were desires of
my heart. Honestly, at this point in my walk with the Lord, it’s because He’s
stripped me of everything that used to make up my identity and my desires look
completely different than they did before. I’d like to think that because of
the relationship that I have with the Lord, my desires are starting to look a
lot more like His.
Last month, I learned a
lot about Psalm 37. Specifically the part about committing our way to the Lord.
When you make the choice to commit to the Lord, you’re in for a real treat. I’m
also reminded of how the good things in life never come easy.
That being said, here’s
and update from my last blog: God brought me to work with my church’s ministry
in Kenya. I’ve been reconnecting, and meeting for the first time, the people
from my hometown. It’s amazing to see how God put something on my heart and He
brought it to fruition! Honestly, there is no way that I could have gotten myself
here—it simply was a divine act from the Lord. We will be splitting our month
as our ministry contact in Narok has been sick and it worked out perfectly that
my team could make it out to ministry with Christ Community Church. We will be
traveling to our original ministry site on the 10th. Until then, I’m
excited to see what the Lord has in store. As I’ve told my team, I highly doubt
the Lord would orchestrate us getting here and that be His only plan (though it
may very well be). He got us here in a big way and I have a hunch that He’s got
something big in store for our team.
The road to here wasn’t an
easy one. I mean that both literally and figuratively!!! Seriously the roads in
Africa are definitely not up to western code. In the figurative sense, I
personally had a crazy spiritual time getting to this point. I had a ministry
contact that I had to get in contact with and it wasn’t working out smoothly
(I’m forced to ask myself, “what does
go smoothly on the WR?�). When I finally got a hold of him, there was such a
huge communication barrier that left me frustrated and confused. Initially, I
thought our contact didn’t even know who we were or that we were coming…come to
find out, he was sick but didn’t want to tell me. Mind you, this was two nights
before we were supposed to be out of Nairobi. So there I was at worship in
Nairobi, frustrated, crying, and contact-less. I had to maintain my commitment
to my ministry contact but I also had this other contact that said he had tons
of work for my team to do. I had to come to a point where I literally gave it
all up to God. I had to let go of control of everything. That’s not super easy when you have this mindset that
you’re responsible for 6 other people. Give it up I did, though. I had to trust
God—trust that He was in control of every situation. I had to tell the Lord
that I would be ok if He changed our plans 15 minutes before we got on our bus
to leave.
He ended up changed our
plans 16 hours before we left. Because Jackson (our original contact) was sick,
we quickly set up plans to make our way out to the Maasai Ostrich Farm south of
Nairobi to join forces with Mark Hagen and his team. Team Post Office has been
getting involved in VBS, soccer camps, and construction at the Women’s Rescue
Center. It’s been such a blessing to be with my church group and establishing
good relationships with them. It’s also been awesome to see my teammates
interacting with the people from my hometown. I’m still amazed at God and how
He works…
16 hours?
This is the World Race (TIWR)
This is Africa (TIA).
