TRUST…five letters that I am learning the meaning of. God is asking me to trust him. Typically trusting him in my life has meant I say “Lord I am trusting you” and at the same time I am logically thinking out how “I” can try to save the day in the nick of time. This month I am learning the meaning of these five simple letters.
I am living out of a tent on the outskirts of an outskirts town of Haiti, and building an orphanage and a school to minister to children who many of whom have a hard time finding a meal aside from the one meal a day they receive from the mission school. God has captured my heart by Haiti and the work I get a chance to partake in through the World Race. From the moment I clicked on the website last January to now I have known I was called to be on this World Race and to finish this World Race all the way through.
I have internet for 1-2 hours once every 8 days or so here. When I arrived this month I realized that when God says TRUST ME he means it. There is no possible way for me to be able to figure things out this month to reach my goals. It is literally arms open wide raised to heaven each morning saying Lord you are my Jehovah Jireh (my provider). I have come to the end of myself and have learned to turn to God. I have given him my world race. It is not though my handywork that I will be able meet my fundraising goal at the end of this month but through a miracle of God. I think that is how he likes it though. He is asking for me to give him the reigns of my life and to say I surrender. Since I don’t have internet this month and can’t be getting the word out he has called me to the most effective strategy above all others and that is prayer. Each morning I walk down the shore to watch the sunrise and tell God that good morning and that I trust him.
God has been so faithful thus far and has prompted people’s hearts to participate in this Kingdom work and to receive a blessing. He has brought in $7,039 so far. So we are about half way there. I need $3,900 by the end of March (2 weeks) or I cannot continue on the World Race! I know God called me here for a purpose. I have been challenged and pushed spiritually, physically, and emotionally more than I ever have been before and I want to continue in this.
The other day I was heading with my squad towards our ministry site and suddenly I felt God saying, “look forward to the feeling you are going to have when you are fully funded for the world race.” I am excited for that day and when it happens soon and very soon I will write you a blog of celebration and thanksgiving to share the great and wonderful news!
