Time for Battle

   As most of you know I have recently decided to embark on a missions trip to Zambia and South Africa next summer! You may also know from my other posts that God placed this dream on my heart a long time ago, and it has continued to persistently burn ever since that night at Acquire the Fire. I have started the crazy fundraising process, which is slowly gaining momentum. Along with this, I have also entered into a major battlefield. 

   Walking into this dream, this crazy, out-of-the-ordinary, finally happening, dream, is basically the same thing as running head on into a war with satan. I am about to go to the other side of the world to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ and satan is definitely not jumping up and down screaming for joy. As I have learned from my past trip experiences, satan will do anything to try and tear me down and make me want to give up. Whether, it's shoving the biggest bucket of doubt he can find into my mind, or snatching away a golden opportunity at the last second, he's not backing down. 

Secret Reminders

   Throughout my life there have been those times when everything is just plain busy and chaotic. I seem to run  around from here to there and never stop. Then there are times when everything has calmed down and I can't figure out what to do with myself. In the times that I am running around, I can't seem to find any time to spend with God. Then in the times that I am not so busy, I spend my time regaining my energy from running around so much. In these times, I find that I start to slowly drift away from God and become more distant from Him. Due to the fact that I don't have much time to spend with Him. Throughout all the craziness, I forget that God is still there leading me and reminding me that He is in control and that He loves me. It can get overwhelming, but I have learned that, when everything is crazy around me, I need to pay attention to how He is appearing in my everyday life. In the times that are busy and hectic I must keep an eye out for His secret reminders, reminding me that He is there walking alongside me.

Made for this Moment

  As I was pondering what to write about next, I thought about the title of this blog. I had never thoroughly thought about the name. It was just a title that had popped into my head one day. The phrase 'Made For The Moment' sounded catchy and I decided to use it.

 
   Now that I have thought about it, though, I have realized that there is a lot of meaning behind it. What does it mean to be 'Made for the Moment?' Of course the world today has many definitions for this phrase. Ones such as, YOLO (you only live once), 'live for today as if it were your last,' 'Don't waste your life, live for the moment,' and so on and so on.

Keep Shining

   

Over the past few days, I have been reading a book that I recently found on my mother's bookshelf called Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis. This true story features a young women, Katie Davis herself, who literally gave up everything for the work God had called her to do in Uganda. She gave up comfort, wealth, college, marraige, everything, just to go and spend time teaching the word of God and loving on the orphans there. She eventually founded a non-profit organization known as Amazima (http://amazima.org/) that helps to provide schooling, medical treatment, a place to live, and other essentials for orphans there who have lost everything. She is also in the process of adopting thirteen little girls that she has taken in. She is truly a remarkable woman of God and, if you ever get the chance, I highly recommend taking the time to read her story. I know you will be truly blessed by all that God has called her to do.

   

   Throughout the unveiling of her story, she speaks a lot about the many different things God has shown her throughout her journey in Uganda. There are many of these revelations that have stuck with me, but there is one in particular that has stayed on my heart for a while.