In my life, there have been many things I have asked for in MY name, rather than HIS. I would ask for things that would make me “happy” or things that would make me feel important, or things that would make me feel whole.
Every once in a while I get it right though, and ask for things in His name and His alone. I would say the World Race was one of those things. This was something that I just felt like I had to do, He called me and there was just no way around it. To be honest, sometimes I wish that there was. Sometimes the days are just hard. I’m sick and away from home. I’m frustrated at all the CHANGE I have to deal with on a monthly basis. I’m tired of eating PB&J every. single. day. for three months straight. I really, really want to try on a stinking wedding dress. Or I want to be with my fiancé, the man I met AFTER I had already signed up for the World Race, because the Lord knew that if I had met him BEFORE I probably never would have signed up because I would have pursued what I wanted over what HE wanted for me.
One of the ways I could have worked my way out of this one would have been with funding… If God didn’t want me here on the World Race, He simply would not have allowed me to raise the daunting number of $14,800. For some reason, I never doubted that I would get the money. I was just so positive that God called me to do this; I was positive that He would make it happen. And He really, REALLY did.
I am officially FULLY funded and then some! Not only did I raise the $14,800 thanks to all of YOU. But I also raised an extra $1,500 that will count towards reimbursements I can receive for things I originally had to pay for out of my own pocket. Like my plane ticket to and from training camp, my plane ticket to launch, as well as all of my vaccinations and malaria medicines. This helps TONS!
Words could never express what the donations I have received over the last 14 months (yes I have been support raising for that long!) have meant to me. The generosity that my friends, family, and strangers have shown me is humbling and amazing. You will never know the peace it gives me and the confidence it gives me that this is exactly where I’m supposed to be through receiving your donations. God has clearly been at work through so many! People supporting me through receiving word on facebook, friends of friends, family members of friends, people who are having to raise support as missionaries themselves, people anonymously supporting me, long lost friends supporting me… and the list goes on and on!
God is so good! He is so faithful! What He says in His Word is TRUE! Let this be a living testimony!
“If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.” – Jesus, John 14:14
