First of all, I want to thank God for each and everyone of you! Your support and encouragement while I have been in Africa has been such a blessing! God keeps reminding me daily of the support I have back home from so many people. I feel truly loved and undeserving of such support but I know it is all from God and for that I can not express enough gratitude to my Heavenly Father!
As you all know I had to raise $9,000 to participate in the FYM program and God has been extremely provisional but I still have about $700 left to raise. My prayer is that you will prayerfully consider how God wants you to help me in raising this last bit of money. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you an amount and if you’re listening He will reveal that amount to you. Trust God that He is bigger than your wallet or your bank account. Have faith that He is all you need! I don’t mean for this to sound harsh or bad but each and every one of us is rich! We are rich! I know you don’t think you are but you are! I didn’t think I was either but after living in Africa for awhile I have realized just how good we have it in America, just how spoiled we are and just how rich we are. Most of my friends in Africa live on 20 to 30 dollars a month and most of us spend more than that in a day. All I am really trying to say is that if your initial reaction is, “oh no I can’t give because then I might not have enough money for this or that.” (whether it be food, clothing or whatever) I want to challenge you to reevaluate the situation. Look around your house, look around your room, look in your refrigerator/pantry, look at your car and think about your job. First of all, stop and thank God for blessing you with each and every one of these things because SO many people in the world don’t have ANY of these things. Secondly, would you be okay if you didn’t have ANY of these things but ONLY had God? If your answer if no, (and if we are truly honest with ourselves I think most of our answers would be no), if you become fearful or scared just by asking yourself that question, if you are sweating right now just thinking about not having a car or an ipod or a job or food or a room of your own or a house with a lot of rooms some of which don’t even get used then you need to put your trust in God! It’s easy to say that we trust God but can we actually put our trust into action? Without action we do not have trust! My prayer is that you will trust God in every area of your life. It is hard. I know I fail at it every day but we must keep trying and keep trusting.
I can’t wait to see you all again in May and share all the ways I have seen God work since I’ve been in Africa. All praise and glory be to our Heavenly Father who adopted us as His own children and loves us more than we could ever ask or imagine!
Please continue to pray for my team and I! We have been experiencing a lot of spiritual attacks lately! Please pray that we would be able to finish strong here in Swaziland and not hold back for one second from the mission that God has called us to! Please pray for Swaziland! God continues to break my heart for this country more and more every day!
-2 Corinthians 9:6-9-
