I realize each person’s spiritual journey is different.
We’re on a different road, but the end is the same: To bring Kingdom to earth.
Before I came on this Race, I never wanted to be a
missionary. I loved the field experience while getting my Biology degree so
much that I wanted to pursue a Masters or PhD in marine biology. I wanted to go
down into the deepest oceans and study the ‘weird looking’ creatures that glow.
But God had other plans. For 3 years I tried to get into graduate programs but
doors were just closed one after another. Finally I had to surrender to God and
said: “Ok God. Fine. I give it up. What now?” That was around April or May of
2010.
God spoke to me not long after that about ‘missions’. As I
was looking into mission trips, I found out about the 1040 window through
Jaeson Ma’s blog (www.jaesonma.com), a
young, hip hop pastor from California. During these end times, God is raising
up a new generation of young people especially in this area who will go all out
to bring Kingdom to earth. It used to be the West sending missionaries out to
the East. Now, there are more missionaries coming out from the East than the
West, especially China. This resonated with my heart and I just wanted so much
to be a part of this movement of God.
I was in fact confused whether I was supposed to go on the
World Race because here I was already in Asia, but I’m flying across the world
to go on a mission trip by a US organization. But somehow none of the other
mission trips that people back home told me about interested me, and so I still
went ahead and went on the World Race.
I do not regret it. And it was definitely God ordained.
I had forgotten all about the 1040 window when the Race
started. It wasn’t until 6 months later, back in Asia, in Thailand, during one
of our intercessory prayer sessions, that God reminded me again of this window
of opportunity where the number of missionaries have been growing by leaps and
bounds.
We just arrived in Uganda and my prayer this month was that
I would come to the Lord’s throne every morning in prayer, an actual set aside
time other than my quiet time, and ask Him for His direction, His heart. I had
just read a blog by Jaeson Ma yesterday and the things that God revealed to him
during his 40 days stay at a monastery (Read about it here). Somehow today, the
Holy Spirit led me to cry and weep for that vision to come to pass, and not
only that, but for the youth in Malaysia and all the surrounding countries to
rise up as well. In my prayers, I saw the school hall of the school where I
used to teach filled with students. The principal was there as well. It was a
gathering of hungry hearts wanting to know more about the Gospel. (The
Christian fellowship that had been going on while I was teaching there was held
in a little remote corner of the school because it was not approved by the
school). And then I saw prayer mountains rise up everywhere in every country.
Young people crying out, praying 24/7. Then I saw tongues of flame scattered
throughout the countries, individually at first, and then it got so much more
that it became this huge bonfire. Then I saw a river of fire flowing across the
country, burning away the things that aren’t to be, while the things that are
to remain come out from the fire refined, like gold.
Isaiah
62:6-7
O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen
on your walls;
they will pray day and night,
continually.
Take no rest, all you who pray to
the Lord.
Give the Lord no rest until he
completes his work,
until he makes Jerusalem the pride
of the earth.
Isaiah
62:10
Go out through the gates!
Prepare the highway for my people to
return!
Smooth out the road; pull out the
boulders;
raise a flag for all the nations to
see.
For an hour and 45 minutes, I just prayed whatever God put
on my heart. I’ve never prayed so long and wept for something so big in my
life. What does all this mean for me? I don’t know. But I keep asking God for
revelation and how do I fit in all of this. In His time, He will reveal.
