*Blows off dust*
I'll be honest, the first journal entry of a new Belgium season is always the hardest for me to write. As it is only February, there isn't a lot of information to share, but I have so many thoughts and feelings that I want to tell people, I just don't know where to start. And then there's the conversation that I have with myself about what to share - "Oh...would they want to know about that?" "No, that's unnecessary, don't share that;" "Is this finalized? Can I share it, or will it change ten more times between now and next week?" Which is probably why it takes me such a long time to get entries up while I am on this side of the Atlantic.
As I prayed during the past few weeks, asking the Lord to help me kick things off, He replied with a question, "Where are you starting?" At first I thought He meant where am I physically starting - location, current athletic ambition, etc. But it goes deeper than that: where am I starting for this trip? Am I starting with focusing on raising support? Am I focusing on my responsibilities for the trip? Am I focusing on who will be added to the roster? Am I focused on how this will affect my job before I leave and after I come back? Where are my eyes? What is my focus? What is my foundation?
None of those things that I tend to focus on are necessarily bad, but at the end of the day, those are things should not make up the foundation of our trip. What I have asked the Lord to make the foundation is prayer. And not just prayer, but praying Scripture over the team and the trip:
My prayer for this trip is that the Lord would use this trip truly for His glory and praise. If that is the prayer and posture of my heart, I know that the details will be taken care of.
To the glory and praise of God!
I'll be honest, the first journal entry of a new Belgium season is always the hardest for me to write. As it is only February, there isn't a lot of information to share, but I have so many thoughts and feelings that I want to tell people, I just don't know where to start. And then there's the conversation that I have with myself about what to share - "Oh...would they want to know about that?" "No, that's unnecessary, don't share that;" "Is this finalized? Can I share it, or will it change ten more times between now and next week?" Which is probably why it takes me such a long time to get entries up while I am on this side of the Atlantic.
As I prayed during the past few weeks, asking the Lord to help me kick things off, He replied with a question, "Where are you starting?" At first I thought He meant where am I physically starting - location, current athletic ambition, etc. But it goes deeper than that: where am I starting for this trip? Am I starting with focusing on raising support? Am I focusing on my responsibilities for the trip? Am I focusing on who will be added to the roster? Am I focused on how this will affect my job before I leave and after I come back? Where are my eyes? What is my focus? What is my foundation?
None of those things that I tend to focus on are necessarily bad, but at the end of the day, those are things should not make up the foundation of our trip. What I have asked the Lord to make the foundation is prayer. And not just prayer, but praying Scripture over the team and the trip:
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.- Philippians 1: 9-11I am not saying that the past trips were not for the glory or praise of God, because our hearts were for the Lord, that His story be shared and that lives are changed. We earnestly prayed that the Lord would move, that the Spirit would work. But speaking for only myself, I was not praying Scripture over the trip from the start.
My prayer for this trip is that the Lord would use this trip truly for His glory and praise. If that is the prayer and posture of my heart, I know that the details will be taken care of.
To the glory and praise of God!
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