Where You lead, I will follow...

The past year and a half God has been radically transforming my life. He has taught me to surrender everything to Him and trust that He has my best interest at heart and that He is going to take care of me. Completely surrendering to God is not something that has happened over night and it is still something I am working on but I have found the more I trust in Him, the easier it gets to lay everything down at His feet. It was this past January while I was at the Passion conference in Atlanta, Georgia that I felt God calling me to do something more for Him. I always knew that I would love to go on a mission trip to serve Him, but in the back of my mind I always let money be the determining reason for me not to go. While at Passion I could feel God telling me that He wanted me to do something for Him this summer, He wanted me to give up my summer of working to build up my bank account and go serve Him. I knew this is what he wanted me to do so I began to pray that he would send me where He wanted me to be. When I got home from Passion I applied through Campus Crusade for Christ to go on a Summer Project. Originally, I applied for trips that were in California (partly because I thought it would be really cool to go there) and because I had heard extraordinary things about the projects over there. About a month after I applied for the project in California, I received an email saying that the project was full and asking if I had any other preferences of where I would like to go. That was the point that I realized my motives for going to California were not completely just for missions but for the fact that it would be really cool to go to California. Once I received that email everything kind of sunk in and I just started praying to God that I would end up exactly where he wanted me to be, and that it wouldn't be because that was where I wanted to go, but because that was were He wanted to send me. I ended up responding to the email just stating that I did not have a preference that I would let them place me where they needed me because I felt that would be the best way for me to end up where God wanted me. A couple weeks later (March 22), I received a call from the project leader from Wildwood, NJ and I learned that I was accepted on that project. At that moment I had no doubt that this was where God wanted me to be for the summer. I had a complete peace in my heart and just knew that was what he wanted. Since then the devil has absolutely tried his best to get me to not go on this trip. He has thrown all kinds of financial curve balls at me as well as many other things that don't really consist of financial problems. As hard as he has tried to get me down, my incredible Savior has keep me on my feet. He has came through in ways that I can not even explain. This whole process thus far, has expanded my faith beyond measure, and I am ecstatic to see the rest of the plans that God has in store for me this summer.