Hey guys, welcome to my first blog post! I’ve never blogged before, but I want my blog to be a place of raw honesty, truth, and openness. I know that each of my donors donated to me with the purpose of serving God’s kingdom on this trip and I want to keep you guys involved as best as I can. About 10 months ago, I was offered the opportunity to take a trip to New York for spring break as a mission trip with my college ministry. I turned the opportunity down because I just started a new job, didn’t have the money, and frankly just didn’t want to go to New York. While some from my college ministry went to New York, others went to Costa Rica for a mission trip. So many of my fellow peers and friends were on mission trips over spring break. When they got home from their trips, a person from each trip went on stage to share a little about how the trip went, what they learned, what they saw, and how the Lord moved. I felt so much conviction in my heart the entire time that they talked. I felt so guilty for not taking up the opportunity to be a part of what the Lord did through them. We sang worship afterwards and the conviction transitioned into tears and it just kept growing heavier.
Finally I just said “okay Lord I hear you,” I won’t turn this down again. A couple weeks later I was sitting in my mindfulness class meditating. I got a very clear vision from the Lord. In this vision I was standing at the edge of a long dark hole that never ended. People were falling from the sky into the hole. I kept leaning my body over to try to catch them but they were so heavy I couldn’t hold them all. Finally, a large hand of God wrapped around my body and gave me the strength to catch the people and pull them out of the dark hole. After I pulled them out I gave them each a bible and directed them to start reading the book of John, then I went back to the hole to do it again. The vision was so clear to me and finally gave me the clarity I needed to know for sure that a mission trip was what God wanted me to pursue.
I searched about different organizations that do mission trips and different places to go. I spent a lot of time focusing on the Stratus Map that shows all of the unreached countries in the world (check it out: https://globe.stratus.earth/globe-explorer/). It broke my heart every time. Finally, I found world race and felt great about it. I prayed about where God wanted to send me and He gently guided me to Guatemala. I am going on the World Race because I want to be obedient to God. I want God to use me wherever He pleases. I want to tell these people about Jesus and how sweet God is. I want others to feel the great love that I receive everyday from the Lord. Most importantly, I want their souls to be saved so they can spend eternity in heaven with Jesus and not hell. More than anything in the world, I want to live like Jesus. I want the attitude of Christ, I want the heart of Christ, I want to be a friend like Christ was. So, as the father sent Jesus, He is also sending me.
This is a powerful and honest testimony, MaKayla!!! Keep listening for God’s voice and keep taking those steps of faith when He directs you!!! I love you!
Love it. Excited for you and your journey! Trust that God will continue to guide you through it!
Mark 10:45:
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
Proverbs 19:21:
“Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”
Matthew 25:40:
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
Matthew 28:19-20:
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”