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December 23, 2010


So as I sit here pretty exhausted from a very busy day, I replay everything that has happened today like a movie in my head. I think about how the main theme of my day was listening to what God was saying and being obedient to Him. 


Here is my day.


This morning as my team and I all separated into groups of 2 and went from house to house inside of a Chiquita plantation spreading the gospel; asking people if we could share the Gospel with them or if we could pray from them. After being rejected time and time again, it felt as if we were wasting time. But we kept pushing through, because we knew that if only one person received the gift God has so graciously given, that would be enough. We  had several people pray “the prayer” whether their words held meaning or they were just speaking to dismiss us, we don’t know. But what we know doesn’t matter, what does matter is that…


A seed was planted. 


After about 4 hours of doing door to door evangelism. We went back to the house. We had time to rest, to read, whatever we wanted to do. 


Skip ahead a few hours. 


It was time for a service, and we had figured out who would lead what. In that process I hadn’t really felt drawn to lead anything, so I wasn’t. I was in the drama that we had planned for the beginning but that was it. Well as the service started, and we finished the drama, a testimony was shared, we had a prayer time, and were getting ready to end, when I felt God saying to me preach…Now I had been working on a sermon about Glorifying God in all that we do, but I didn’t think is was anywhere close to ready, So I was like “really God?” And He said “yes.” So I walked up to the pastor and told him I felt that the Lord was telling me to preach and I asked if I could, His response was “yes, of course!” So I walked up to the front told everyone, That God was telling me to preach, and that I hadn’t perfected my sermon, but that it must be where it needed to be if God was telling me to speak it. 



Words poured out of me, it was so much fun, I could feel God speaking. It was such a blessing for me to go up in the moment with no notes and share God’s word, and to be able to worship Him through that. 

   
After I finished speaking, the whole group came to the front and we sang who is the king of the jungle in spanish with the kids (I have probably done that more than 50 times since I’ve been on the race, thank you Darin Queen!). 

Then the pastor came up to us and asked “do you have another song that you could do for everyone?” I kinda spoke up for the group and said “YES!” then we had to figure out what to sing, we sang mighty to save, and while we were singing I felt God speak to me again and He said, “sing sanctuary in spanish” as I thought to myself, I’m the only one on the team who knows that. Which meant that I would have to sing it alone. So I asked “are you sure God?” He replied “yes.” So I thought…


“if you really want me to Lord, I will.”


So once more I walked over to the pastor and asked him if I could do one more song, he said “yes”. 


Here is a quick side note…

 For all of you who know me I do not like to sing in public, so of course God would tell me to lead worship. 


So I walked to the stage and grabbed the microphone and told everyone that I was going to sing and that I have one of those voices that are only enjoyable to God (everyone laughed). I told them that, that didn’t matter though because we were there to worship God and try and give him the glory He deserves. 




Then I sang in front of about 50 people.


And it was…awesome! 


While I guess you could say I was leading worship. In that moment I didn’t care about what anyone thought of my voice, the only thing that mattered to me was that I was glorifying God. 


And that was my day. A day based listening to God and being obedient to Him.