Tuesday

My whole life I have tried to look ahead and mesh details until I can get it all figured out and then press onward.  Not anymore, I”m learning to take one step at a time and delight in that step until the next one comes.  This was never more evident than in the recent Mozambique meeting.  Many people were asking detailed questions and bringing up future questions in which there are no answers to yet.  Our team leader assured everyone that the Lord was with us and that we needed to take one step at a time.

Step 1 – pray and fill out the 17 page application. This will help you decide if you really are called to go or not.

Step 2 – commit in your heart and then turn in the application by the deadline.

Step 3 – continue to pray and seek the Lord as to what He wants you to do on this trip…. do you have skills to teach, skills to serve, open your heart

That’s it.  Three steps for now and do not fear. Do not fear.

“Where God guides, God provides.”  Lorraine Lemon,

Project J.O.Y. Mozambique Team Leader

Right there in the meeting I stopped, focused in and prayed. I told the Lord that I really felt called to go and if He was thinking of keeping me here to please let me know. Then I purposed to fill out the 17 page application and rest in that and not let fear of finances keep me from stepping forward.  Do I know where the money is coming from – no.  But I”m not going to let that detail stop me from taking the first 3 steps.  If I let step 24 keep from from step 1 – 23 then I’m sunk !!  So, Praise the Lord I’m on step 1 now.

One little note before I close, at the end of the meeting the leader advised me that $200. had been given to the mission fund specifically for me. BOOM ! Part of step 24 in the midst of step 1!

Thank you Jesus, and thank you anonymous donor for depositing seeds of faith into my future, may God bless you BIG TIME !!