Jesus take the wheel.

A long overdue blog...

So life has been running faster and faster so it seems. I have been able to spend more time with my whole family in the last month than in the last two years! It is amazing how God knows just what you need. Just a little update on getting to Haiti... I have some serious prospects and I am praying that the organization, myself and most importantly God are all in the same agreement. I feel like we all are on the same page but there is nothing official, yet. Except one thing makes it seem more real than anything... the spiritual warfare. 

I'm going to need some advice on this one. Satan seems to be roaming around hitting me right where it hurts, trying to break me down, give up my heart for Haiti, etc. Satan knows the little things that may make you not trust in God to provide. I literally just got home to find a very unpleasant "letter" in the the mail. Which I'm praying is just a error on Drexel's part and not mine!

Have you ever dealt with this? What do you do to combat spiritual warfare? Okay, so this is also a blog to ask for prayer. I need it big time. 

My heart keeps going back to my life verse Phil 4: 6&7 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus".

So again I ask what do you do to combat spiritual warfare? Does anyone know of any good verses or passages to read? 

God is telling me to Go and I will! Satan you better watch out!

...to be continued...

-B

He will make it happen.

Ok... Back again. So, I left off talking about God's timing and putting me exactly where I needed to be and with whom I needed to be with.

After about 8 months of being in NC and "church shopping"; March 2011 I stepped into a church that would change my life here in NC and I now I am starting to see that it would change my life from here on out. This church is called newhope church (newhope's website). The first time I attended a service, there was an announcement in the bulletin about a missions trip to Kenya. After attempting to speak with the right people to find out what it was all about I found Dave Brown who leads the missions at newhope and I'm pretty sure I placed my deposit the following week. Step one to changing my life. Step two would be joining a small group aka bible study aka life group. I met the most amazing girls who would become some of my best friends. Those girls have listened and help me grow so much it is unbelievable... (I'll talk more about these girls in the future).

Now, let me just tell you... I wasn't really sure how I was going to go on this trip. I had enough to make the deposit at the time but the rest was unclear... Please make note. If God wants you to go on a mission trip or do a certain thing, He will make it happen. I promise (and so does He). It might take down to the last second but if it's God's will, it will happen. That simple point has been increasingly clear in my life. Just about the entire ~$4,000 it took to get there was covered by those who believed in me, newhope, The 410 Bridge and what the members of the Kenya 2011 team were doing. Remember, all things are possible through Christ.

So of course God provided and in July 2011, I ventured off with about 15 other newhoper's to Kiria, Kenya. It was an amazing trip. Here's a highlight.

Kenya Highlight Video

 Amazing, Right?!?!

In my previous post I mentioned I had always thought I would end up somewhere is Africa and I anticipated this trip as God telling me that Kenya was it. That would be where I would eventually move.... but... it wasn't. Now, please don't get me wrong. I had an amazing time, with amazing people, in an amazing country. Sadly though, my feeling upon arriving back in NC was a bit of disappointment. It was rough, all of the time before the trip I had anticipated this ah ha moment... but it didn't come. I had semi-prepared myself for this but not fully. After being on many other mission trips before I knew that not every trip was life changing... I even told others on the trip that it may not be life changing but it will have an impact... I just wasn't listening to what I was saying.... and besides, God knew what He was doing, I just hadn't caught on to that. With that being said... onto life after Kenya & before Haiti.

...to be continued...

-B

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