So, almost 6 months ago I was in Kona, Hawaii for a 5 week school called Circuit Riders. During week two, I had a pretty intense dream during a nap (who dreams during naps? I mean honestly..) that has been changing my life.
In this dream, I was arriving in Kona once again. After arriving, the dream quickly shifted and I was in an elevator with my two amazing friends Grace and Jacob, who were holding hands. Grace said something to me, then the elevator somehow.. detached and it was flying over cities, oceans, and clouds (Very Dr. Who-ish, right?). Imagine what it'd be like to hanging out of the bottom of an airplane, and that's what it was like. Easily one of the most profoundly vivid dreams I've ever had. I eventually landed at the YWAM base in Japan. I woke up and wrote it down because, well at the time it made NO sense, but I knew when I have dreams that vivid it will make sense sooner or later.
Fast forward 3 weeks to the last day of Circuit Riders. Our speaker was talking about how God will reveal the next step in our journey through dreams of destiny. As soon as he said that, I felt God telling me to go back through my journal that I was currently covering in doodles. So I kept flipping until I saw that dream I had weeks before. I read it, and didn't understand it. "Read it again," God told me. I still didn't understand, I mean, flying elevator? Really, God? Am I Willy Wonka? As I sat in my lostness, my roommates Bekki and Grace leaned over and God spoke his plan for my life through them both. "You were arriving in Kona.. then you flew to Japan? That sounds like a DTS. You're supposed to do a DTS!" What they didn't know was that I had applied for Fire & Fragrance DTS last January.. but didn't follow through with it because the timing didn't feel right. And the girl who pieced this together for me, was Grace, the very girl I saw in the elevator in my dream. She was also staffing the upcoming Fire & Fragrance DTS, and so was Jacob.. the boy with her in the elevator. (Grace & Jacob are now dating by the way, and are probably the cutest couple I've ever seen. Seriously, its adorable.) After class had ended, I walked up to our amazing school leader Andy Byrd and asked him if the upcoming Fire & Fragrance DTS had outreaches to Japan. He said yes, they were praying about it. I could not even wrap my head around this. God had told revealed my next step.
So fast forward to Tuesday afternoon. Following the word of God, I laid down everything and was sitting in the Ohana court with the rest of my FIre & Fragrance family, practically having a heart attack (with everyone else) waiting for our staff to write the names of our outreach locations on the giant white board. "What if Japan isn't a place they chose afterall? Then what?" Taylor told us we would be handed slips of paper, and we were to write our names along with our top two choices for out reaches on them. We had 10 minutes to pray over each location. The list of our outreaches went up, and the first one to be written down was Japan. I may or may not have almost cried in that moment. We broke up to pray over our locations, which you think would be a huge decision.. but no one took the full 10 minutes. God spoke, and we listened. The staff had to pray over each choice, and said it may take them until the end of the week unless a miracle happened.
The next morning, they told us that miracle happened.. they would be announcing teams that afternoon. Sitting of the floor of the Ohana court with everyone, the excitement and anxiousness was seriously electrifying. One by one they called up locations and announced the teams. They began calling the team that would go to Iraq, which I had written down as my second choice (No one tells my dad or he'll fly over here and drag me home), and in that instant I knew I didn't want to be called. I wanted to go to Japan and walk out the word I had from the Lord. I laid down everything, committed 6 months of my life and returned to Kona like He told me GOING ON FAITH that I would end up in Japan.. I couldn't go to Turkey, I just couldn't. They finished the list for Iraq, and called Japan. My name was called, and I got to stand and look into the faces of the rest of my Outreach Family. FINALLY!
Finally knowing that I am officially going to Japan was the biggest encouragement and confirmation I could have ever recieved. To look at that dream in my journal and know that I am walking it out. That the Lord placed a calling on my life, and is walking it out with me. Knowing that I heard Him right was just unbelievable. I'm seriously undone by how unfathomably g o o d He is. Like, honestly. Blowing my mind. So, there you have it all. In a few months, I'll be moving to and traveling around Japan for 3 months. Thank you all for your prayers and support! It was your encouragement and support and prayers that gave me that (often needed) extra push forward.
If you'd like to help me get to Japan, as this is going to cost me a few thousand dollars and I don't benefit financially from what I'm doing, click the DONATE button at the top of the page (its right below my Bio).
T H A N K Y O U A L L S O M U C H!
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