The World Race

A few years ago, I heard about a mission trip called The World Race (check it out at www.theworldrace.org) and I almost instantly decided I wanted to go on it at some point in my life.  As time went by, I kind of put in in the back of my mind and almost forgot about it until just recently--God has really been pressing it on my heart again.  When I tell people I'm looking into this mission trip that travels to 11 countries in 11 months and it costs $13,800 they usually tell me I'm crazy.  I began listening to the lies and feeling discouraged, telling myself that it will never happen.  However, as I was reading the book of Nehemiah sometime last week I began to glimpse a new hope.  God told Nehemiah to go and rebuild the wall, and Nehemiah obeyed.  Throughout the building process, people kept telling Nehemiah that it wasn't going to happen and that he should just give up.  But Nehemiah knew that since God had told him to do it, He would somehow make it work.  As I read this story, I really felt like God was telling me to stop listening to people and start listening to Him.  If it's truly in God's plan for me to go on this mission trip, He will provide everything I need to make it happen.  The first possible trip I could go on leaves a year from now, July 2010.  It's a pretty scary thing thinking about where I could be in a year!  Please join with me in praying for God's will to be revealed to me.