As I stand still during a busy day of work and trying to make the world a better place, I realize I have been running away.
2 months ago the Lord asked me to surrender missions.
I have fought.
I have cried.
I've been confused?
Through all the emotions and not understanding "why" I have taken my own measures. I tried every possible way to get out or follow missions in every direction.
Every door has closed.
I felt like Jonah.
Just like him I've been running away.
Running from what God was calling me to...
For the past 10 years I have been a missionary overseas and that is all I have known.
I did not understand why God will be calling to something different.
However, coming back from my last venture in the field God gave me this verse:
Isaiah 43:19
God kept telling me He is doing a new thing.
Not the same,
NEW.
This past year of reflecting and re-evaluating my life I realized that my most fruitful season has been here in the USA.
Lifting up this generation
to RUN after God
with a PASSION.
Looking back, I realized 95% of the women I have discipled have gone to the missions field
or have been raised up as leaders...
Many churches have been planted.
Lives have been impacted.
Generations are still being changed.
Leaders are rising!
As I continued to plan my life, God redirected me. As a loving father He lead me to His best.
I am not saying I am completely leaving missions.
Missions is an everyday life choice.
It is everywhere we go.
It is having a mindset that we are made to share His love with every person we meet.
We need to change our perspective
missions is here
His KINGDOM.
I also know that God will use me to lead trips short term, so that others will know their calling. So that others will step out in faith and know who they are in Him. God has used the missions field overseas in my life to mold me into who I am.
To show me His heart for every nation.
But I know that this season is to serve Him wholeheartedly here.
My life is surrendered to His will and not my own.
