God can do great things!

Praise God, Praise God! I am sitting here at the library thinking about all that God has done for me in making the way clear and doable to go to Belize on January 11th 2011! Only about 3 weeks to go! It seems quite unbelievable that I'm actually going to be leaving the country so soon! Concerning God's provision, He has been more than good to me. So many wonderful people out of God's leading donated huge chunks towards my financial goal. Now I only need about $2500, and although I don't have any idea where it's going to come from, I have faith that as God provided for me this far, He can indeed do the rest! So the biggest challenge for me as of now, would be packing up all my stuff, moving it to my sister's in Tacoma and getting all those last minute things I'll need for Belize! God is teaching me so much about trusting Him. Pray that in all the rush I keep my eyes focussed on Him!

Blunt honest prayer to God

God, what are you trying to tell me? I met with one of my elders who felt that I shouldn't plan on going unless I had another $2000 to pay towards tuition for my Discipleship Training School by December 1st. Here's my plight: I have just enough money to buy the plane ticket, but I will have none left over towards any school fees. Should I wait, or should I continue in my plan on going this soon? My plan, which I believe is Your direction is that I go this January. Here's my fleece: if you provide another $2000 which I have no idea where it will come from than I will take it as a green light in going, if I don't I will take it as a yellow light. This is what my elder felt that I should ask of you. I trust that you can and are able of doing this miracle if it is your will. Give me your willingness to follow You even if it is not what I want! thank you Jesus! Give me a heart to serve you wholly no matter where I am, even at work. I know I don't always like it, but this is where You have me now. I want to be YOUR light even here at The Pit. I'm struggling with impatience because I like my comfort zone, I don't really like your challenges God. They try me and break me. But isn't that what I've been praying for? That I'd be broken by you. God You are showing me that my flesh is so weak! I need You God so fricken BAD!!!! I'm not satisfied with going even one day without Your help! I need Your Holy Spirit NOW!
Precious Lord, I pray all these things in Your name!
Amen

Wow! What a good and faithful provider!

Sooo......It happened, it's finished- the long awaited for 2nd fundraising dinner which I was stressing out about! After sleepless nights and relentless prayers that God would give me the right words to say and bring in whatever funds He'd planned, I now look back at the outcome of last Friday night's spaguetti dinner, and I am amazed at how smoothly it went. I am so blessed to have such wonderful people in my life! I was so grateful for their commitment in helping put this together. Thanks to my mom for her hours of shopping at Costco for the dinner ingredients, thanks to my grandma for her tedious work folding napkins for the tables and finding the prettiest decorations and reserving the entire recreational center at her retirement home! Also, thanks to my longtime friend Rosie for her decorating skills and piano playing! Jewel played quite a big role, handling the donations and finally thanks to all my 25 guests who came and supported me morally and financially! You all are awesome! Anyone who couldn't come, don't feel to bad because the Lord knew what He was doing and He totally strengthened my faith. He helped me with my speech, everything turned out quite well and I am very happy to say that I raised $678!!! I am $678 closer to being able to go!!! I am still waiting on that next $5,722, but God keeps providing little by little and I just need to keep on trusting! Thank you everyone for your prayers! I trust and pray that in this time while I'm waiting on God's provision that I would learn whatever He wants me to learn here at home and I would continue to lay this dream I have in going to Central America with YWAM in His hands!

The little miracles along the way

It's a mistery for me to know exactly how God is going to provide for my Discipleship Training School with YWAM this January. I'm fighting between trying to raise it all myself, and/or simply relying on God to make it happen. I have been faced with some challenges lately. Like losing my wallet twice in a month, being told my hours at work are going to be cut, and finding room-mates so my rent is lower. But I have seen these crazy amazing acts of provision. For example, weather my own personal clumsiness or a soveriegn plan of God to show me a miracle, I managed to lose my wallet twice this month. (The first two times in my life, mind you). And each time I lost my wallet, I had it mailed back to me, with nothing of great importance missing! The second time it was lost for nearly 10 days and it was finally mailed back to me from Santa Clarita California. How amazing is that! The incidents really confirm that God hears even the most insignificant seeming prayers! I mean, it was amazing enough that I got it mailed back to me first, but twice in a row! God, you are amazing! I am also blessed by those who God has lead to donate something to me. Many times, it's a surprise who the Lord chooses to be His vessel of financial blessing! And that's not all! I have found an excellent place to get travel vaccines to go to Belize! Right at Fred Meyers Pharmacy! I also, just can't express how greatful I am that I have been able to prepare for a second fundraising dinner this Friday! What makes this so amazing is that I have done little work in planning. Thanks to my amazing mom and Grandma who are doing most of the planning. My grandma was able to reserve a room which seats approximately 100 people absolutely free! All of these little provisions and miracles shows me that God must be behind my plan to go to Belize and train with YWAM!!! I mean, really this isn't "my" plan it's His, because after all He gave us the great commision. I didn't wake up one day and say: I think it would be a good idea to tell everyone about Jesus! It's His idea, and I need to remember this if I'm ever going to fully trust Him! I am just so greatful that I can be a part of our Heavenly Father's plan to win the world to Himself. "God grant me the grace to only do what you want me to do. Grant me the strenght to go where you want me to go, and grant me the willingness to only say "yes" to you!"

Almost there!

It is now nearing the end of September and I am still plugging away in Renton Washington juggling two jobs and still set on going through Discipleship Training School with YWAM (Youth with A Mission) down in Belize!!! I was hoping to actually go this Fall but I didn't reach my financial goal and I felt the Lord saying yes for me to wait and go in January. YWAM transferred me to the January school, and I am grateful to say that I have already paid the first huge payment of $2,625 last week towards tuition!!! I am excited to see how the Lord is going to provide for the rest. I had one fundraiser dinner August 1st, and it went great, and I raised $1,300 at it and I am planning to have another one and hope to see a similar outcome. God has shown me just how faithful He is, and I trust that He will do the rest! I wholeheartedly believe that this journey is God's will for me and I can't wait till I am actually on that sailboat with my "classmates" and we are learning how to sail and be disciples of Christ and fishers of men! I am so excited to see what God is going to do in me and through me! If you want to know more about what I am doing, check out this website. www.destinationparadise.org

The journey seems the hardest

I am preparing for my DTS this Fall, but it seems so practically impossible, that I can only look to God daily and pray for Him to provide. I don't know how it will be done, all I know is I just gotta live every day, serving Him and wait and see if it will happen. I would like prayer that I would trust God to get me to Belize in His timing. He knows best, after all.