We serve a BIG BIG God!

I had one of the most incredibley supernatural and amazing experiences of my life last night. I actually bawled this morning thinking back on how completely orchestrated by God it was!

Let me start at the beginning. As most of you know, I will be leaving to YWAM a week from today. This next week is not going to be easy as I leave all of my family and friends behind for the next six months. I've already had some really emotional moments just thinking about the reality of being away from home and the people I care about for so long and in those moments I have found myself asking God if I'm doing the right thing and if I'm going to be able to handle that seperation.

Last night I got His answer as clearly as it could ever be given.

I was in downtown Greenville with a good friend of mine and we ended up getting into a really indepth discussion about God and our faith while sitting in his car. It lasted quite a while and when it came time to leave we realized [to our dismay] that we'd forgotten the radio on the entire time and his battery was dead. Not a big deal unless neither you have jumper cables.
At this point its somewhere around two in the morning and there isn't a soul in sight so we decided our best bet was to walk up to the main road in downtown and see if there was a police officer around who could help us out. After walking a pretty good distance and seeing no one I was beginning to doubt we were going to find help unless we called someone, but moments later we saw one lone car parked on the side of the road with three people standing beside it [a guy and two girls], talking
Seeing as it was two in the morning on a Wednesday I didn't really know what kind of people we were encountering. Honestly my first thought was that they had probably been at a bar and were just now heading home.

[This was a lesson on 'snap judgements' for me as well.]

We walk up and say hi, explaining our dilemma, and ask if they happened to have a set of jumper cables. They said yes, and immediatly all three of them agreed to help and even offered to drive us back to his car in theirs. I was blown away by how friendly they were to us, complete strangers. As I got into the car, I happened to notice a sticker on the back window that said "I left my heart in Uganda". I thought that was cool, since I had been in Africa a year and a half ago, and said to the driver, a girl about 22 or 23, "You left your heart in Uganda, I left mine in Kenya."

Immediately her mouth dropped open and she said "You've been to Kenya?"
"Yes" I said, "I went there to do some mission work." Now all three of them are looking at me wide eyed as they tell me that they had just gotten back from Kenya two days before!

I start flipping out about how cool that is and the guy, probably about 25, asks me what I did there. I told him I had been working with the Masai tribe. Yet again all three mouths drop as they explain that that had been exactly what they were doing as well! Now all of us are laughing at how incredible it is that we happened to meet in downtown Greenville at two something in the morning and we've all done the exact same thing! I then went on to tell them about how I'll be leaving for my dts soon and explained about what it was. They all said they thought that was really great and then the girl driving asks me, with a curious expression, what day I'm leaving for my trip.

September tenth I say. Once again there is an outburst of laughter and disbelief. I'm confused and then the guy and one of the girls tells me that both she and he are leaving for sepperate mission trips on that EXACT same day! Now I'm flipping out because I realize what this is. It's not coincidence, or chance, or accident. It's a divine appointment set up by God!

Can we look at this again. Just as I'm in the midst of wondering if my direction is where God wants me to be, I run into three people who've done the mission trip I've already done and are leaving to do more mission work on the day that I am leaving! That's what you call confirmation.

I am now more certain than ever in my life that I am following God's plan for my life and it feels AMAZING! This is where I'm supposed to be. He will carry me when days get hard, because He has called me to this purpose! Praise the Lord for His awesome ways and that He is a BIG BIG God!!