DTS is over

I am currently sitting in the DFW airport... waiting for my flight to leave a 7:30. Even though I have to wait a long time... I have no reason to complain, because the last five months make it worth while.

I cannot believe that my simple decision to do a DTS at YWAM Tyler would allow God to totally revolutionize my life... my whole LIFE. I have come to realize that this life I live is not mine... but the Lord's. I am on this earth for one specific purpose, just as everyone else is. TO PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD... TO SEE HIS KINGDOM COME AND WILL BE DONE ON THIS EARTH.

God has given me a desire to see this fulfilled... to see it become reality... NOW. I do not have this heart out of obligation, but out of the desire and passion that God has put in my heart. The only way to see this become reality... is to live life the way am supposed to, not the way the world tells me to. I want to be a missionary... for my whole life. I want to be a witness, and desire to see others experience freedom in the Lord, as I have. I will not give into the world. We to realize that the Lord has so much more for their lives. Let's stop giving into the world... because essentially we are just giving into the devil's deceit. AND, THAT IS THE LAST THING WE SHOULD BE DOING. I am saying this, not to point fingers, but actually remind myself. It is just something that the Lord has really put on my heart... how important it is to live in total submission and obedience to HIM... LITERALLY. Just saying it isn't enough...

"And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the Gospel of the grace of God." Acts 20: 22-24

This, to me, should not be a foreign way of life. If we know that we are strong with Jesus Christ... and we have authority with Him... then why should any affliction cause us to hesitate in sharing the Gospel? It didn't even phase Paul... IT DIDN'T PHASE JESUS! So why does it stop us from our ministry? We are to walk as Jesus walked... in EVERY way. We are not exempt from affliction, for Jesus was not. Paul realized this... and he was a marvelous man of God because of his faith and obedience to God's will. I pray that the Lord will lead me to live this way for him... I desire this.