I found this song on Youtube called "Follow You" by Leeland with special guest Brandon Heath. I really like it, first of all because I like Leeland and Brandon Heath and they're just good artists. I also like it because it touches me right where I'm at in life and reminds me of a moment I really began this journey of seeking missions. I want to share that with you and hope it brings even more meaning to this song and to show you the glory of God's leading and our humble submission to follow Him.
God started to change my life and the path I was on starting about two years ago, first when I went to a dream conference. I know, a dream conference? It sounded to me at first like interpretation of dreams, but really it was an opportunity to write down on paper what you dreamed for in life and bring it before God, allowing others to see it posted on the walls as people went around praying for these dreams. My dream was to live for a time in a Spanish-speaking country serving God. I remembered this dream I had had and laid it before God, not really sure even what that meant.
Later, I took some students to Mexico on a service trip through TIME Ministries. I heard about the summer internship and was interested. I inquired about it, but also was not sure that I would be able to go. As I was there in Mexico, one night when thinking about it and the possibility of not being able to do the summer internship, I found a place by myself and I cried to God, cried because I ached to go and was pained at the thought of an opportunity before me being taken away. It surprised me, in a sense, how upset I was about the possibility of not going and I realized how important it was to me. I realized how I had always been waiting for an opportunity such as this, and couldn't bear the thought of losing it. So I prayed and put my request before the Lord, humbly submitting to His will--for if He would grant me the opportunity and for if He chose not to. I repeated again and again, "Wherever you lead me, I will follow."
And so now I continue in following His leading as He has granted me my dreams I laid before Him, seeing how He has answered them in giving me so much more than I could even imagine that time at the dream conference. I now find myself preparing to follow God's leading to live in Mexico as a full-time missionary with TIME Ministries. God is good! And so as the song says, I say to my wonderful God, "I'll follow you into the homes of the broken, follow you into the world."
Listen to the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ajIFfSaEzE&feature=related
God started to change my life and the path I was on starting about two years ago, first when I went to a dream conference. I know, a dream conference? It sounded to me at first like interpretation of dreams, but really it was an opportunity to write down on paper what you dreamed for in life and bring it before God, allowing others to see it posted on the walls as people went around praying for these dreams. My dream was to live for a time in a Spanish-speaking country serving God. I remembered this dream I had had and laid it before God, not really sure even what that meant.
Later, I took some students to Mexico on a service trip through TIME Ministries. I heard about the summer internship and was interested. I inquired about it, but also was not sure that I would be able to go. As I was there in Mexico, one night when thinking about it and the possibility of not being able to do the summer internship, I found a place by myself and I cried to God, cried because I ached to go and was pained at the thought of an opportunity before me being taken away. It surprised me, in a sense, how upset I was about the possibility of not going and I realized how important it was to me. I realized how I had always been waiting for an opportunity such as this, and couldn't bear the thought of losing it. So I prayed and put my request before the Lord, humbly submitting to His will--for if He would grant me the opportunity and for if He chose not to. I repeated again and again, "Wherever you lead me, I will follow."
And so now I continue in following His leading as He has granted me my dreams I laid before Him, seeing how He has answered them in giving me so much more than I could even imagine that time at the dream conference. I now find myself preparing to follow God's leading to live in Mexico as a full-time missionary with TIME Ministries. God is good! And so as the song says, I say to my wonderful God, "I'll follow you into the homes of the broken, follow you into the world."
Listen to the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ajIFfSaEzE&feature=related
