Wow I can’t believe we are about to wrap up this year and begin this next season. I want to thank you all for sowing into God’s purpose in my life. Your support has been so sweet and humbling. God knew I could never do this year without you and He sent you to help and support me through it all. I feel like you have all been apart of every step of this crazy journey. So thank you for doing this with me and thanks be to God for your faithfulness!
I want to try and sum up some of this year for you guys and share what’s coming up next.
This year has been huge for my growth with Jesus. One thing I have learned and I am still learning is that expectation can ruin the gifts of our current life!
I want to be honest with you all. I put many expectations on this year and my hope was on the outcome instead of God’s plan for right now. I don’t regret anything from this year because I got to learn all of this and God has done so much in me and the lives around me.
But many months I had an underlining expectation for a country, ministry and God. I wouldn’t change a thing about this year because it was beautiful. But there were many moments of feeling let down and that’s nobody’s fault but my own. I had expectations, and that can ruin what you’ve been given and many times it did. Please don’t read this and think that I’m saying this year was ruined! No this year was transformational for me and so many others around me and in the world. What I’m saying is that so often I thought I didn’t have expectations and didn’t realize I did until I felt let down. But what was so incredible is that all that happened this year was majestic in Gods timing and planning for everything. Gods plan not mine.
There has been so much transformation this year. I could honestly make an unending list of all that God has done.
But let me start with one of the amazing things God has done this year. God has put me in a year of structure to share the freedom of the Holy Spirit that God has given me. I do not gravitate toward structure or routine if anything I push away from it. Through this year I’ve been placed in all of that and it has really stretched me to seek God in that new place or even to seek Him in an area I have a hard to time living in. Through this tGod has taught me much discipline and submission. I have also learned that in all things I should have joy and passion to share the gospel through it all. No matter what that looks like or how much I like where I’m placed.
If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ. ” 1 Corinthians 9:12
“For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings. ” 1 Corinthians 9:19-23
These scriptures to me really sums up a lot of this year for me. It has been a great challenge to deny my own desires in order that I might meet others where they’re at with the gospel.
I’m still trying not to have expectations for the future. I’m not sure how to do this and I’m still learning how to put my hope in the Lord and the Lord only. So ya that’s one big thing God has been teaching me and still is. For the future I want to put my hope in Him and be okay with His plan and not my own. To put my hope in Him and to be invited into His plan is really where I want to be.
In this next season I hope to continue to try and live without expectation.
Coming up next?
I hope many of you received my recent email about what I will be doing next.
But for those of you that haven’t…
I’m so excited to announce that I will be continuing work with Adventures in Missions. In January I will be returning to the field with a small team to the Middle East. It is a program called Kingdom Journeys: Pioneers. For about 5 months we will be going to four nations to pioneer a new route for future World Race teams. Our focus will be making contact with ministries that need help, finding men of peace, figuring out costs, logistics, lodging, visas, and health and safety. Gathering support for missions is more than just raising money. I have felt your love and prayers this past year while on the World Race and it truly feels like I have a team in the U.S. that is fighting for me and supporting. The total cost of the trip is $7,650 and my first deadline is $2,500 by November 11th. Will you partner with me? God is doing big things in the Middle East and it will have a lasting impact for years to come.
I’m so excited!!
To further hear my heart about pioneering please follow my new blog:
Moniquemorris.kingdomjourneys.org
I will continue to try and process this year and update you guys with stories and my heart. So stay tuned!
Thank you for your love and support.
Your racer – Monique
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. John 21:25
