I hear my Savior say, “The strength indeed is small. Child of weakness, watch and pray, find in Me thine all in all.”
Shannon Morgan: Hittin’ the Road for Gainesville in T-minus ONE day!
I can hardly believe it, but I’m leaving for training camp tomorrow. It seems like time has been a completely useless term to me since I first heard of the race in October. Not that it has flown or dragged, it just seems to be non elemental. I feel like I’ve been used to the idea of The World Race for years now, but in some way, it does seem like only an idea. In some ways, it seems like it will never come. I’ve been accepted to go for nearly six months now (Wow, I can’t believe that!) but all my preparations have had to be put on hold while I tried to salvage any extra time to exert towards my last semester of school. College has been graduated for a week and a half now, and I’m leaving for camp tomorrow. My, my… Time, what’s up with you?
Anyway, I’m beginning to learn in an unbelievable way how GOOD God is and how every good thing in me comes only from Him. I’m also learning that He actually wants me to do this. I have zero doubt in my mind that He has set me to do this, and do this I shall, in His name. It’s absolutely unbelievable.
I still have thousands and thousands of dollars to raise, but I am not worried. Sure, I have two months to raise this money in, and I have no idea where it will come from. But God, He owns the cattle on a thousand hills, and because He wants me to go, I will be on that plane in August. I have absolutely no doubt of it!
However, every single time that I begin to worry, God does some amazing miracle. In fact, only two nights ago as I was driving back to Oxford from a friend’s house late at night, I begin to think of the enormous magnitude of money I have to raise in two months’ time. Since I’ve been so singularly focused on finishing the hardest semester of my life, once that was over, I realized that I have a long way to go to get to my goal. I began to worry, I began to stress, I began to fear as I drove that lonely stretch of A.M. highway. This has not been the first time, but for the hundreth time, God confirmed His leading for me.
When I came home, I checked my account balance only to see that one of my teammate’s had donated money to me. I was absolutely and completely blown away. This teammate, who has to raise just as much (actually, more) money than I do, and he donated money that could have been used to further his trip. This is when, for seriously more than the fifth time, God has said outright, “Don’t worry about the money, I’m providing every day!’
Since that night, I have recieved other donations and checks for hundreds of dollars without even expecting it. I’m believing that God will financially back every single need this team has. It’s going to take hundreds of thousands of dollars to send this August team out, but when has money ever been an issue for God? When has He ever had to pull us out of something He called us to do because He didn’t have the money to do it? I can say, 1,000% of the time, God will meet our needs. “Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” Every day God feeds us from his hand, as a gentle shepherd feeding His sheep.
So team, we will have this money, Every single one of us will. The preliminaries of this trip are faith-building, so rely on God to lay our foundations and every structure. We cannot do it on our own, but God desires to make a mighty movement in us that will bring His light to the darkness of death. Look out, world, Jesus has comforted His people and He alone is our Provider!
If the Lord is our Shepherd, we shall not be in want. Do not worry, God is with us, around us, in us, and working through us. He has chosen us, in all our jacked up situations, to be ambassadors of peace and love for Him. Thank you, Jesus!
