Spiritual life feels like it’s been on steroids since committing to going on the World Race! It seems to be quite true that when you start to walk in deeper obedience to God’s nudges, then your prayers really do get answered more and the Holy Spirit finds you a more hospitable dwelling place! Granted, I still have plenty of junk to deal with, and as we all know about the spiritual journey, that’ll take a lifetime of sanctification to burn off…but the juxtaposition of God presence between pre-acceptance of call vs. post-acceptance has just been soooo night and day!
It’s interesting to me that the prospect of uprooting for the goal of missions and going out to the nations has in fact, first and foremost, gotten me stirred up for what God is doing in a local context. Partly, I think this is due to having excitedly felt multiple confirmations from the Lord about being given the calling of missions, which has allowed me to move more confidently into my general God-given identity and claim the spiritual authority needed to fight strongholds and principalities, which is relevant locally and afar. But also, following God’s call has really just increased the frequency of “God moments,” you know, those moments that are just too coincidental to be merely coincidental? And it’s also given me a hunger for growth and growth itself in all things prayer, worship, and evangelism! Since accepting the missions call, I feel like His presence has been with me so much more as I go about! This has led me to take more of an interest in ministering to people in the local community, feeling more equipped.
Accepting the call to the World Race has stirred up in me a burning heart for His kingdom come and seemed to have cracked the heavens open a bit more, and this is just the beginning!
“Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord. Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart— they do no wrong but follow his ways. You have laid down precepts that are to be fully obeyed. Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees! Then I would not be put to shame when I consider all your commands. I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws. I will obey your decrees; do not utterly forsake me. How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”
Psalm 119:1-11
