This is a sample platter of three short blogs about three different things! Enjoy 🙂
I’ve had times on the World Race that are not my proudest moments. I’ve had times that I have let my emotions take over and not allow any other sense of reason or truth to enter my head. When people try to give me advice I immediately shut them out with my anger because “They don’t understand.” Being on the World Race is hard and sure not a vacation. The situations you’re in, the people you’re around, the things going on back home, your emotions and your hormones can take over your maturity, your words and unfortunately how you affect others. These are the things that have happened for the past few days and also some times in the past month and I have not handled it in the right way. So, I publicly apologize to those who I’ve offended by these things and for the attitude I’ve had afterwards. I have had a lot of prayer time (as you’ll read on the next blog sample below), and something popped into my head this morning…
God uses the best movie of all time (in which I have even spoke of in past blogs) to convict and teach me things when I need to. In one of the scenes of Remember the Titans, Peetie is arguing with Gary about how their racism is affecting their playing and how their attitude is making it even worse. This morning, a line in which Peetie says to the leader of the team popped into my mind; “Attitude reflects leadership, captain.” Although I am not the leader of this team, and I have a leader who has authority over what we do, I have the authority over my attitude. I have the leadership over myself- I have to lead myself to greatness, I have to lead myself to Jesus, I have to lead myself in trusting in God, I have to lead myself into a better attitude and from there- let it all go into the Lord’s hands where it all should be. I just have to take the first step.
Moving onward, with the news update. We are now working in Malaysia with the most Holy Spirit led, on fire for God people I’ve ever seen. They don’t sleep. Last night, they were at the church until past 1:00am worshipping and then came back at 5:30am to worship at pray again. There is a worship activity at this church every single day. Church and God IS these people’s lives. I know I’m going to grow and learn so much in this month that God’s blessed me with. Thank you for those who have prayed for a stable ministry for my team this month. God answers prayers! I will be writing a blog soon about this ministry and the orphanage I visited yesterday. I will be working harder this month to blog.
Next order at hand, my teammate Nikki. She is in some financial trouble and needs your help. She only has a few days to raise a little over $1,000. This really is not a big amount at all. We can do it with trust in God that he will bless you for your donating to a complete stranger. If she doesn’t raise this money, she will be going home which would be very incredibly sad. She is so incredibly wise and has so much kind and wise advice whenever we need it. She has been through a lot and knows how it feels to be in most of the situations I’ve been through. I need her here with me! Please help her stay! I pray that you feel a stirring in your heart to help a sister in Christ out and bless the socks off of my team of six girls. To donate click here to go to her blog, and click on her "Support Me" button on the left column!
(Nikki and I in Thailand after getting lathered in baby powder as a Thai wedding tradition)
Thanks for always taking the time to read up on what’s going on with me! Thanks for your prayers and I hope they continue. The mission field is growing increasingly more difficult the more time we’re here. Happy Good Friday. Remember to thank the Lord for dying for us so we may be free.
