When God tells you he'll move a mountain for you, allow him room to do so.
I started out this journey as a missionary by bargaining with God. I'm not proud of that fact, but I told God that I would become a missionary only if He promised to move my budget mountain (the financial miracle I would need to go to a foreign country like Japan). Not just move it, but move it 110%. I wanted it to be an undoubtable miracle. God promised.
I asked him for 110%. Truly, I thought that I might actually make 90 or 95% of my total budget to go to Japan. Maybe.
And then God did something incredible. Without using the traditional route, he started making the mountain move. It went slowly at first; a shudder here, a rumble there, but always some sort of movement. My mountain never stalled out - not completely. Not once.
I asked again and again when it would be done, how I would get to see it
happen. Once, I lost hope that it would ever completely move. And still his miracles continued.
From January 2013 to November 2013 my mountain moved 75%. And then in December 2013, in one night God did the unthinkable. He moved not only the remaining 25% I needed - he moved my mountain 35%.
He gave me 110% just like I'd asked. In one night.
(Sincere thanks to Calvary Church whose boundless love and giving overwhelmed me to the point of a blubbering emotional mess that night.)
My God, the Impossible One. The God of far-flung hopes and dreams. The God of wonders. He always keeps his promises.
One thing I have learned in my time of itinerating is that God likes using unique people with beautiful dreams who live generously to do what he promised he would do. I would never have been able to accomplish something like this myself. At the beginning, that frightened me. But now I can say I have been truly humbled by the response of so many people whom God has chosen to help move my mountain.
I would like to say thank you to everyone who is giving generously and praying lavishly on behalf of this missionary. I cannot thank you enough! You are wonderful.
All of that to say, I am now done raising funds and am currently waiting on my visa to come through so I can go! Japan will be coming soon, though you will know before I get on a plane! Pray for an expedient visa process and be ready for another post coming very soon!
Blessings,
Amanda
