Hey friends!
It’s time for an update! Let me get started by talking about all that God has been doing! So, back in mid-December, I prayed that the Lord would grow me in ways that I couldn’t imagine and to prepare me for the race. Really soon after I prayed that, I started going through some crazy spiritual warfare.
The enemy started planting lies in my head about the race and where God was putting me and I began overthinking. Pretty soon, I was trying to figure out these thoughts and God’s will on my own and that put me in a pit of anxiety. I gave it to God over and over, and He gave me peace for a little while but I would go back to trying to figure out by myself again. So I began to pray every time I would feel overwhelmed and confused, and I would say “Lord I have no clue what you’re doing, but if it is Your will for me to go on the race, just keep providing”. I can’t tell you how many times I prayed that prayer, and every time I prayed, someone would donate money or buy a shirt. Over and over, the Lord showed me that this is where He wants me. But, for some reason I still doubted. So I kept praying. And pretty soon, it’s the end of March and I’m fully funded for my world race. WHAT?! Like I literally cannot ask the Lord to provide any more. He’s done it all.
A few weeks ago I was talking to one of my closest friends about what the Lord had been doing. And about the race and how the Lord has provided in every way for me to go, but my mind is stopping me from believing it. I told her how the world race opportunity and the funding, pretty much fell in my lap. Why would that happen to me? Then she reminded me of the story of the Israelite’s and the promised land. The Lord had provided the Israelite’s with everything they could possibly need in the promised land, all they had to do was go straight in. But they got scared and second guessed themselves and decided to go around, and the Lord made them wait for 40 YEARS.
The world race is my promised land (for this season at least) and the Lord has provided in every way for me to go. Literally all I have to do is go in faith. Why am I still doubting? So, today I was thinking about all of the thoughts and possibilities that have been racing through my mind and I felt the Lord say to me that I have the power to send those lies back to where they came from. I am so obviously where Abba wants me and He has made that so clear. So anything that tells me otherwise is from the enemy, and I have the power of Christ in me to deny those thoughts and claim God’s truths over me!
I look back and I can see why the Lord brought me through all of that spiritual warfare. I have changed literally so much and have even rededicated my life to the Lord<3!! My heart runs free in Jesus!! I can honestly say that if you showed me myself before all of this, I would not even recognized myself. THE LORD IS DOING A GOOD WORK IN ME!! ALL HIS PROMISES ARE YES AND AMEN!
Well!! That’s what’s been up lately and I will be posting more often now!
Also, I cannot wait to travel the world with my new best friends and see lives changed through Jesus! Thank you to everyone that has been praying for me, bought shirts, and donated! It means the world to me!
That’s all for now, folks! Thanks for reading!
yours truly,
anna 🙂
