Welcome to the land. . . of world rocking. A land of love, genuineness, truth, and obedience. A land of good times, fun times, bad times, and rough times. A land of fight and nurture. Better yet, a land of the Lord.
This land is known as Adventures In Missions.
In this land, my adventure with the World Race Gap Year started. It’s also the land where I’m ending my journey (officially) with Adventures In Missions (at least for now).
Just about one year ago, my journey began at Training Camp. A crazy time of starting this reality of going across the world in obedience to Christ as well as a hunger for more… more of whatever Jesus had to offer. And now, this journey is ending. But ending with a bang!
Project Searchlight (PSL) has rocked my world… So yet again, Adventures In Missions has been used by God and for God, to speak truth and reality within me.
I came home after the race as a new man. A man of God that is different now than who I once was before the race. But in coming home, I grew cold, numb, and discouraged. I barely read Scripture (And I loooove reading Scripture… It’s one of my many passions). Talking to God constantly and relationally became no more… I just couldn’t. Satan took advantage of this transition, and smashed what I’ve been fighting so hard for.
But then, it was time to go to PSL. Back to the land where God rocked me to my core, and the beginning of this crazy, radical, God breathed journey. Back to my friends, my FAMILY, my people. Back to an atmosphere and culture of people who genuinely and radically love the Lord with a heart that settles for the opposite of the American dream, but instead, the dream Jesus gives His bride, His new creation. A dream of being consumed by God’s presence, obedience to God’s Word, and a life dedicated completely to the calling Jesus has given them.
Heck. Yes.
But fastfoward, and now that PSL is coming to a close, I look back at my entirety with Adventures, and realize how essential PSL is in coming back home… I actually feel like I could write more in my journal of these past 3-4 days than the entirety of my race! God has shown up and opened his mouth once again. After all that happened on the race and my transition in coming home, PSL has given me new perspective on the truth I received and learned through my 9 months on the race.
You might ask then, what the heck went on at PSL?
Well, I’ll tell you… To an extent, of course.
1. We’ve had breakfast, lunch, and dinner served to us.. it’s been pretty baller. And I really like food! So there’s that… And now more importantly…
2. We’ve had worship twice a day. And that has entailed sweating, jumping, screaming, and praying… As well as people getting healed! Prophecy being spoken! And lives being changed! And of course… CHAINS BEING BROKEN!
3. We have had awesome men and women speak to us about several different things! This has created a reality check in my heart and mind, as well as being better informed and equipped in walking out my life with the truth they were speaking along with the truth I learned on the race.
4. One of the coolest parts of being here at PSL, was actually the time I got to spend in a small group with a few of my awesome squadmates… In this time, we got to be real and transparent with each other, speaking life and encouragement over each other along with praying over one another… But to be real… We actually got to be real with each other and pour out where our hearts have been in coming home as well as with that current day. And of course, all our lives are messy. And I couldn’t of had better people to pour out my mess to, and to listen to theirs…
So overall, PSL has been a time of restoring truth and reality the Lord has already given me. A time of awakening in my soul, in a way that it’s never happened before. A time of clarity, in the fact of recognizing where I fall but also where I stand. A time of a mindset change on life, and new perspective for where I’m going.
And now as I’m stepping back and looking ahead, I see a light brighter than it once was, I feel a calling heavier than it once felt, I know truth clearer than I once knew it, and I recognize a reality I once didn’t recognize…
My body, soul, and spirit has awakened… And my fight I once had in me didn’t just come back, it’s actually nastier than its ever been.
My understanding of who I am and who He is, just transformed all of the fruit of the Spirit in my life to being that much sweeter.
Raw real passion has just knocked on the door… And I’m afraid Satan won’t want to answer it this time. At least, not for now.
This is the land of world rocking…
Because. Well. When you come before the presence of God, and the Holy Spirit moves within you, He tends to rock your world.
*The verse of my race, and the verse that just got all the more highlighted as a heavy reality……… —–>
1 Corinthians 4:20 – “For the Kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk; it is living by God’s power.”
