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I've started this post so many times. The post explaining why I am going on the World Race. So I put together this list:
 

Why am I going on the World Race in January 2014:
 

  1. God told me to apply. At first, I was really hesitant because the world race didn't fit into my plan but God's plans never really do. When I got back from Uganda, I really wrestled with the idea of applying, it just didn't make sense. Of course, it's an awesome opportunity and I love the idea of going one day, just not so soon. So I told God I'd apply and if He wanted me to go then I would get a phone interview. Then I got the phone interview, so I told God, if He wanted me to go, I would get accepted. Then I got accepted, so I told God if He wanted me to go, He would provide the deposit, and He did. So I'm going.
     

  2. I have this unexplainable desire to live my life like the apostles. I want to be like Peter and drop my net and follow Jesus. I want to leave everything behind and follow Christ. I want my life to be consumed with the Gospel. I want to be sent out, with nothing but authority from the Holy Spirit. I want to watch Jesus heal people, physically and spiritually. I want to blindly follow Jesus. I want to be okay with not having a plan.
     

  3. I have a burden for the broken. There is so much brokenness in the world and it really does break my heart. There are so many people who don't know how much Jesus loves them and that He died for them. I don't understand why some of us are born with everything, and some of us are born with nothing. I don't understand why the world seems so unfair. But I know that I serve the living God, and that He is powerful beyond my understanding.
     

  4. I want to be a missionary. I know that I want to spend the rest of my life serving God, but I'm at place where I am waiting for God to show me the next step, and I feel like this is it.
     

  5. I cried out, “Send me Lord! I'll go” and He said “So go, Rebekah.” So, by faith, like Abraham and Noah and Jacob I will go.
     

So, by faith, I'm going. I'm going to leave behind my comfortable 1st world lifestyle, I'm going to leave behind my plan of how I thought my life was going to go, I'm going to leave behind my “rights”, to things, like a comfortable place to sleep every night, warm showers, a real bathroom, clean clothes, etc. and I'm surrendering everything to the Lord. I am going to live out of a backpack for almost a year, rewear the same clothes, over and over again. I am going to be dirty and uncomfortable. I am going to serve “the least of these”. I am going to be Jesus' hands and feet. I am going to live in complete, utter dependence on God. I am trusting that God will provide the $15, 500 I need, before I launch in January. (it's not all due till 6 months on the field but I want to get it all before)

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