Our God does not fit in a BOX. He is uncontainable. Did you read that right? UNCONTAINABLE.
I have raised all the funds necessary for my trip and I could not be more thankful to all my supporters and to our amazing Heavenly Father for making this all a reality.
I leave on September 1st to begin my journey. My amazing squad and I will be working with Zion's Gate Ministry in Honduras and I have no doubts that it will be anything short of, well, crazy.
My prayers for the past 6 months or so have been radically answered. I wanted to wake up needing God every minute just to feel like I could breathe. Honestly, for me, that was just not happening in my comfy dorm room in middle class America.
How could I NEED God when I had nice clothes, a comfy bed, plenty of food and water at my disposal, and friends and family to help me solve all of my problems. Heck, I could even get a school counselor for my problems too, if I had wanted. Listen, I just have to tell you all, that where we live today, like it or not, God often does not come first. I think many of us find ourselves guilty of picking up the phone before kneeling in prayer when crisis comes our way. I think many of us find ourselves complaining that there's nothing to eat while blindly staring into a fully stocked fridge. I think many of us find ourselves so immersed in our crazy self-centered society that our CREATOR GOD does not come first.
I just can't live like that anymore.
I can't live like I haven’t heard my God speak. I can't live like I haven't seen Him heal. I can't live like I haven't felt Him move in me. And, I can no longer live without my heart breaking for what breaks my God's heart.
I wrote this blog to thank you all. To thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your prayers and support that have brought me to where I am today. But, I also want to challenge you. Because you, my friends, have a much harder task than I will over the next nine months. Yes, my road will be rocky, however you all will be living here. You are in a country where Christians have a bad rep. Where true Christianity is referred to as "radical". So, I challenge you to be radical. Live your life like JESUS CHRIST lived HIS. No exceptions.
I want us all to wake up and talk to our Beloved Father before checking our cell phones or the clock. I want us all to love and care as dearly for the starving and lost children of the world as we do about our own children.
I want us all to wake up needing God every minute just to feel like we can breathe.
