The Call

"The harvest is plentiful,

but the workers are few,"

this statement has rang true for 2 millenniums,

but there has never been a time like this.

A time where communication and travel have worked to facilitate the gospel reaching all nations. Right now we are in a place where it can happen and we have the tools to do so, but we lack workers.

We lack those who will be Pauls

and go to those who have never heard,

those who will never know

the love and mercy of Jesus Christ.

I know that there are a lot of unsaved people in America who haven't heard the gospel and the overwhelming need for discipleship here, but how long will the Church in America use this as an excuse to stay comfortable as Brazilians, South Koreans, and other countries send their people to die to carry this message to the lost? 

People are dying all around the world right now, both in America and in 195 other countries. Americans have rejected the gospel, have access to churches, pastors, sermons, books, bibles while most have nothing. 

Are you called to be a Peter or a Paul?

Me: I'm a Paul mostly, mixed with a little Peter.

 

 

 

Paul wouldn't have been a "missionary" to America, but would have gone to the tribes that are unnamed, crossing cultural boundaries to go where no one has gone before.

 

Though I am consumed with a deep passion for the nations, just like Paul, and compelled to go, I do not desire to do it alone.

God has given me two deeply rooted passions...

Missions & Mobilization.

"Mobilization is the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war."

- Wikipedia

 

 

 

I desire to go to the nations, but my life's work will be spent not just loving the lost, but working with God to assemble and deploy an army to love the lost strategically in all corners of the earth.

The assembling has started... will you join us?

Loving the Moments

Discontentment creeps in like a thief in the night who seeks to rob you of your joy and feelings of fulfillment and stealthily replaces them with a black hole of jealousy and restlessness.

I love Minnesota and now see it as home, but this doesn't mean that I live everyday being 100% hands down content in the season I am in.

 

I love the season I'm in,

but give me a break I'm human!

I compare, I covet, I dwell on the future a little too much and forget to keep my focus on God - easily becoming blinded to the beauty and grace given by God in every intimate moment of my day.

You feeling me!?! Or am I the only one in this world who gets so farsighted that I'm all alone in the black hole of jealousy and discontentment???

Yes I deeply desire to moved to Marseille, France,

one day get married to a man who is passionately in love with me,

eventually have TONS of babies,

BUT I recently found myself being so discontent being single and mobilizing at Bethany College of Missions.

 

I was close-lined with the sobering reality that life was raging by and I have been missing so many opportunities to make the most of my time serving in Minnesota. While sharing a hallway with 15 awesome women of God, being single and totally available for God to use me in extremely practical ways, my eyes have been fixed on what I don't have and dreaming of a bigger and brighter future.

Talk about a waste of precious moments...

Life isn't just a sum total of so many years,

but a compilation of tiny split second moments of

laughter, tears, awkwardness, passion, drama, romance, family, joy, anguish, forgetfulness, faithfulness, humility, confrontation,  growth, correction, and so much more.

People say its not the destination, but the journey. FALSE! 

 

As Christians, it is totally about the destination which becomes the beginning of eternity. I do understand the phrase though - yes, life is a vapor, grass to be burned, a blink of an eye, but still an important season to be embraced whole heartedly.

So what am I learning?

 

Embrace life and begin loving the moments.

 

My Inadequacy

I am...

Independent. Strong. Beautiful. Creative. Resourceful.

Driven. Spontaneous. Crafty. Focused. Energetic. Joyful.

Smart. Opinionated. Witty. Capable. Bold. Loving. Handy. 

Faithful. Motivated. Passionate. Kind. Adventurous.

And daily I am reminded of my inadequacy. 

I am 21 years old and never could have dreamed that I would be where I am today. Yet, in the midst of it all, I am continually struck with the reality that without God in my life I wouldn't be half of what I am today.

I am an independent and strong women who is completely dependent and weak in the arms of a mighty God.

I have been called by God for this time and this season to take on a role that many days I feel completely inadequat to do, but none the less this season that I am in fulfills its purpose to consistently drive me to the foot of the cross where I find strength in Him. 

My prayer some mornings when I wake up is 

"DEAR GOD, I need grace... I need grace... I need grace... 

LORD! Give me grace... Give me grace... Give me grace..." 

and he is always faithful to get me through
even the hardest of days.

He reminds me:

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV

He has called me:

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 ESV

Take heart and know that the days when you feel inadequate, 
you are never alone!!!

Sealed & Sent

I began this blog over a year ago... but today I am taking the plunge to make this thing official! 

My heart in starting this blog is

to share my life, 

thoughts, 

opinions, 

experiences, 

& hopefully so much more! 

I pray that you will embark on this journey with me and that throughout the next weeks, months, years, or however long I keep this going... that you will join me!

My hope is that, we will both grow in love for one another 

and that you will be encouraged to pursue the Lord in a deeper and more passionate way!

2 Corinthians 3:3 

"And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts."

My life is a letter and I welcome you to read me. 

On my heart you will see engraved a desire to love God above all else and a passion to be sent to the nations to present myself as a human letter - written by God with love.

I am a letter that will forever be sealed and sent by my King.