Have you ever been asked to do something from God and didn’t know where that came from? Prepping for this trip I have had to think a lot about things that need to be taken care of while I am gone and when I come back how will I survive. I have been taught to always have an out. Always be prepared and to have a back up plan if whatever it is falls through. God is teaching me that whatever He says goes and I don’t need a back up plan.
For about 3 years now I have known that I was going to go on the mission field. So I have been living very carefully and trying not to make any crazy decisions just in case God said “Go” the next day. But upon graduating Christ for the Nations, I knew it was time to get out of debt. I knew that in order for me to go on the mission field I was going to have to pay off those credit cards and pay off my car. THEN there came the World Race. Should I apply? I’m still in debt. But I felt God telling me to just do it. SO I did, not knowing what my financial situation would look like. I look up now with paid off credit cards and as of a month ago a paid off car!
That is all great right? So now I’m set for the mission field for a year! Now I will have a vehicle to come back to without any payments, and it will just sit for a year. WRONG—God spoke. SO many people have told me, “Val I don’t think you will be coming back for long.” I was like ok, sure yeah, whatever. But about a week and a half ago God told me that I was supposed to give my car away to my cousin in a different state! I mean, I hardly talk to her because our lives are so busy and she has a full schedule graduating. REALLY God? Not to mention God, I JUST paid off the car. It’s my first thing to ACTUALLY own in my name. But God spoke again, and again, and again to bless her with my paid off car!
After talking to my dad, and telling him what I felt compelled to do, he reassured me, that one rule in our family is that nothing we have is ours. God has control over it and He blessed us with it to give it away. I grew up knowing this so why was I questioning this? Everything my parents have had, if someone needed it, they gave it away if they could, and I have watched how God has provided crazy stuff for them.
I then realized this car was the last possession I was holding onto before I leave in a few weeks to do the World Race. I needed to release it, and let God be my provider. Yeah I could of sold it to make the last money that I need for my trip, but God said to give it, so I did. Being obedient doesn’t make sense sometimes, but at the end it does.
I had the honor to Skype my cousin last night and tell her how much God loves her to give her this her senior year so she can go off to college. It was awesome to be obedient and to remind someone how much He really does love us!
This was the last thing I was holding onto. I now will have no transportation when coming home, which is weird because even before I had a license I had a car (small town kids drive illegally 😉 )SO this will be an next phase in my life watching God show himself in CRAZY ways. Never say you will NEVER give away your car after you watch someone else give it away because God has tricks up his sleeve.
So what has God asked you to do that you are still holding onto for dear life? Because I can tell you that once you do it, even though it’s crazy, you can’t stop smiling because you have done what He said to do!
