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He has great things in store

My Ethiopia trip is drawing nearer by the day.  I have started handing out my support letters.  It has already been amazingly fun to see how God is bring in the money.  I think it is super exiting for all these people helping me by funding me get to be, in a way, part of this trip. 

Just the other day I was thinking about my part in this story.  I am only 13 and yet I have the chance to go to Ethiopia and further God’s kingdom.  I am given the opportunity to be part of this amazing mission, Christ’s mission.  That means I am a worker for Christ, his ambassador!  How amazing is it that even though God has the entire universe to take care of he is willing to look down at me and want ME to be a part of His work. 

I am so happy that he has given me the ability to see what I am truly doing, and to cherish it.  I pray, as I hope you will for me, to use the time he has given me to the best of my ability. 

Spreading the word

As I have mentioned in previous posts I am going on a trip to Ethiopia.  Well as one can imagine I have been telling people about this trip.  To my great surprise I have had quite a large number of people respond to me telling me, “What you are doing is very dangerous don’t you understand that?” or “Don’t you think your a little young to go on a missions trip?”.  Now I understand most of these people were just worried about my safety but it was still hard for me to have people saying this, it started to make me doubt myself but yet again God came to the rescue.  About a year ago I memorized this verse,

Jeremiah 1:7-8

But the LORD said to me,
     “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’;
     for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
     and whatever I command you, you shall speak.
      Do not be afraid of them,
     for I am with you to deliver you,
        declares the LORD.”

So every time someone ‘warns’ me, I do not waver or doubt for I have a God that does not let age stop His plans nor does he let danger stop the furthering of His kingdom.  I have no worries for if the God of the universe tells me not to fear, I will not fear.

Never doubt

Just thinking about how amazing it is that Christ let us be the ones to further His kingdom.  I mean think about it, our God king of the universe chose me, His little girl, to go forward and further his kingdom.  What an amazing honor this is for us, He could do it all himself yet he chose us, dust of the earth, to help him. 

I am going on a month long mission trip this summer to Ethiopia.  I will admit to you all there has been times that I have doubted myself, am I really fit to do this work?  Wont I get homesick?  Just think of all the things you will be missing out on back at home?!  But every time I have these thoughts in a matter of minutes those worries were put to rest.  One day when I was at a Youth Retreat, Blizzard, right as we were starting worship I thought of how hard times might be, the heartbreak of leaving little orphans or being away from home so long.  Yet as I was thinking this we started singing our first song and all my worries melted away as I sang;

Savior, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever Author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave

-Mighty to Save by Hillsong United-

How can you doubt a God that can move he mountains? That has conquered the grave?

I was listening to my favorite song, on Shai Linne’s album, Attributes of God.

Our God Is In The Heavens

Our God is in the heavens
He does whatever He pleases! (repeat)

Verse 1 (Shai Linne)

The Sovereign LORD, Great I am recognize the name!
He’s always on top of His game, a Lion that simply cannot be tamed
And no, He is not restrained at all- nobody can stop His reign
So why do the nations rage and all of the peoples plot in vain?
Their sin and offense is against His excellence and they’re not ashamed
As though He’s lacking the power to shackle them now in the hottest flames
And so they cock and aim- the target? His cosmic reign
That’s like a kid with a super soaker trying to conquer Spain!
Man thinks he’s a pugilist, trying to ball up his puny fist
At the LORD, who is ruling this
What’s amusing is God just laughs, like “Who is this”?
Stupid kids who persist in foolishness
It’s only by God’s power you exist
Now you declare war on the LORD
When before you were born, He formed you in the uterus?
Look- Our God is in the heavens and He does all that He pleases
He’s established His King in Zion and His name is Jesus!

Chorus

Verse 2 (God’s Servant)
Our God is up in the heavens and the seat at His right hand
That’s given to rule and reign is where Jesus the Christ lands
And He sits preeminent, He originates the right stance
Impossible for Him to fail, no there’s not even a slight chance
Constructor and Conductor, leaving the men amazed and saying
“What manner of man is this that even the winds and waves obey Him?”
From His purpose of election, and to birth, to our perfection
He has ordained it and He decrees and works by His direction
He never will suffer defeat, He’s precisely the Truth and the Life and the
Way
So even when He died, they never took His life but He gave His life away
To see when they crucified Him, nobody had imagined it
Not only was a part of the plan to save but the climax of it
He’s gonna get glory, we’re created to be His instruments
His reign’s inexhaustible- His rule is truly infinite

Chorus

Verse 3 (Shai Linne)

The perfections of God are not affected at all by human opinion
Everything in the universe is under His control and His rule and dominion
And there’s nothing in the world that could ever could come to pass at last
Unless He first decreed it
If we dive in His word we can read it, see all of His purposes completed
And as hard as it seems, the heart of the king is a stream of water in His
Hands
With discernment you’ll see God turns it where He’s determined according to
His plans
You gotta get a focused lens to truly understand where His control extends
(Everywhere)
And I know that this offends, but the truth is the grossest sins serve His
Ultimate ends
You might not hear it from your favorite pastor
But He made the wicked for the day of disaster
Sinners unacquainted with the way of the Master
We have to explain what is plain in the chapters
He’s sovereign over creation and sovereign over salvation
Including reprobation, regeneration
I wouldn’t want to say this if it wasn’t based in His revelation
It’s kind of stunning, men ignore His throne, the creature’s lost it
The time is coming when the Lord alone will be exalted

Chorus

This is the God that I worship, this is the God I fear and love!  I highly recommend this album to you.  Shai Linne describes different parts of God by rapping it!

“Just Do Something…”

This book by Kevin DeYoung has taught me so much in the last couple of weeks.   I am so very guilty of being indecisive.  Time after time I have also waited to see “God’s will” shone to me or blame my decision on God so people won’t give me a bad time about it.  So does that mean that God will never reveal his will to us? You may ask ‘Didn’t He reveal his will to Moses, Noah, or Jonah?  Yes, He did and He still could but He also gave us wisdom to make those choices on our own. 

I have for about a year been really growing in a passion to go on a missions trip over the summer.  These past few months I have contacted a missionary and been planing a trip to visit.  Exiting right?!  I have been thinking how all this is going so well it must be ‘God’s will’.  A few days ago I found out these missionary couple are going to have their first baby.  This is bitter sweet news.  Although I am over joyed for them I am also a little disappointed that I will not be going to work along side them this summer. Now does this mean that because I can not go on this certain trip it isn’t ‘God’s will’ for me to go on a missions trip this summer?  No, I don’t think so, especially after reading this book.  God calls us all to “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.” We are all called to go. 

Now, what am I to do?  Should I pray about what to do this summer?  Were to go?  Yes I will pray but I will also go to my parents and try to use the wisdom God has given me in the best way I can.

I highly recommend the book Just Do Something or How to make a decision without dreams, visions, fleeces, impressions, open doors, random Bible verses, casting lots, liver shivers, writhing in the sky, ect.