So… I started to pray and ask the Lord for His will to be done. Two weeks later I was laid off from Starbucks. Answered prayer number 1. So the Lord began to draw my heart back into ministry. The more I prayed, it seemed that World Missions was going to be the next destination. A few weeks later, I attended the World Evangelism Conference at Dallas Seminary to try to find some information about mission agencies and where they are going.
During this time, I could not get the World Race out of my mind and I did not feel like I was being drawn to one specific country. My heart was breaking for the entire world and there was no escaping it. So I applied for the World Race. Originally I was thinking October or even at the earliest August. The total amount that has to be raised is about 16 thousand dollars. And honestly that number is a very scary number to me and I am not even kidding.
So I got connected to one of the World Racers, Jessica Phillips, who just happens to live about 20 minutes north of me in Frisco. We hung out and she was trying hard to convince me that I needed to go on the June Race. And my overwhelming answer was “No Chance.” 16 thousand in 2 months seemed like something that would have been totally impossible. So we parted ways on that after she reminded me in love that God has all the resources of the universe and is capable of taking care of everything.
Soon after this me and a friend were talking about the Apostle Paul and how much of a rock star in the faith he was. God used this man in a ridiculous amount of ways to transform the world and there was so much Kingdom power that was flowing through his veins. And I started to think about this and I started to wonder what seperated him from us…specifically me. And while I fall very short of the Apostle Paul on a huge amount of issues, the one that jumped out the strongest to me was that he had such a huge faith and trust in God.
Then a huge revelation hit me: I had never trusted God for something that was outrageously huge before outside of salvation. And as this reality hit me, I started to ask the Lord what He would have me do about it. And I felt in my heart that He wanted to step out of the boat and trust Him by applying for the June Race. He opened the otherwise closed door, and I was accepted!!!!
So now I am in the process of getting ready to leave in June for the world and I could not be more excited about following Jesus around the world and shining the light and love of the Father into the brokenness of the world!!!
