If God asked you to do something, would you obey? If the
Lord chose you as a vessel for His work, would you oblige to His beckoning
call? Would you listen to Him, even if you didn’t understand why He asked you
to act? You can read thousands of stories in the Bible of His obedient
servants, but it is entirely different to be asked to move in His desires for
you. God has struck me with a conviction this month and I am going to do my
best to explain what He has clearly communicated to me.
I arrived in Honduras with a strong sense of excitement for
a reason that wasn’t completely clear to me. I knew I was looking forward to
spending a month with another team and I was really happy to spend a month with
Mr. Fun himself, Shaun Frederickson. Shaun reminds me so much of a friend I
have at home but with a big plus: he is absolutely gaga for Jesus. I guess you
could say I was expecting to have a good time and enjoy Shaun’s presence for a
month, but, as usual, God blew my expectations out of the water.
The first few nights of our arrival here I slept like a baby
but that all started to change around night 4. I started to wake up in the
middle of the night and God started to send my thoughts into high gear. He
started to reveal to me that I was going to be working with Shaun this month on
instigating change within him and myself. We were going to uncover things that
we had chosen to mask about our lives. Together we would unearth all of our
hidden issues and with the Lord – overcome. God was asking me and another person
to be completely vulnerable in order to allow Him to truly reveal His
incredible healing and transformative power to both of us.
After 5 nights in a row of God telling me my exact game plan
to start making this change, I couldn’t seem to shut His voice off. Every time
I thought I could try and rest or just sit and think, He began to yammer on
about another thing I was going to be doing. I was so thunderstruck that I had
been chosen to launch a God ordered life change within another person that I
didn’t know what to do with myself. I felt like I was floating around, feeling
nervous, excited and without a shadow of a doubt, ready to do God’s work.
What exactly happened, however, will be split into a second
volume. Keep your mind open for part 2!
