Postby LightUpTheDark » Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:14 pm
Sure, ok. That sounds interesting. I'll start a thread someplace and write about all my crazy mission stories.
I knew I was called to missons when I was 14. I went to my first Aquire the Fire convention, and about drove my parents insane with my desire to go on a missons trip when I got back. It was all I'd talk about. I felt God had given me a calling to reach the world, and it is the Great commission. Anyway, they said I was too young, and I, very irately too, I might add, let up a little in asking them to let me go, but I continued to do my research into different misson oppertunities and stuff. I did kind of lose my zeal, though, after being constantly told no, until my old church's youth group decided to go to Mexico in 98. Our group never had a real youth yeader, and it instead was ran by 3 youth in our church. I was President and Treasurer... so as soon as I found out about it, I was going. Nothing short of the deliberate hand of God was going to stop me either. I'd been prophecied over several times before then too, and those prophecy's all re-confirmed my calling to missons. Anyway, to make a long story short, I knew after that trip I was definetly called to missons ( some things you just know, and God has shown me repeatedly that this is a true calling from him), but I thought I was meant for the more administratvie side of things. My senior year in High school, I was all set to go to college ( I'd been accepted by both of the ones I'd applied to) to go study missons, when God began working on my life and heart and showing me that I didn't need some degree to do the work of God. I went to Youth with A Misson 6 months after I was out of school ( worked in a meat market to raise my money for my training and trip with YWAM. Shows how willing I was to do what God had called me to do), and did a DTS with them for 6 months. And I guess you could say the rest is history.
I feel my calling now, is still the same, but is going in a different direction as I am lead by the Spirit to proclaim the gospel in an unorthodox manner.
Anyway, that's more or less the long and the short of it. Hope my answer was clear enough... Forgive the typo's... I rely heavily on my spell check...and this doesn't have that feature.
ANd in regards to the quote, yeah, I think I have it covered if my brain is making the right connection...sometimes, it backfires, or something...he he he
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