Today marks 8 days until the start of training camp. Many emotions are arising now that it feels more real each day. Many thoughts are going through my head such as excitement, joy, worry, fear, and scared of the unknown. This is a new season approaching in my life, but overall I'm praying that the Lord surrounds me with peace and comfort during this time.

As of right now we have added one new country to our route. TURKEY! So our route consists of:

Guatemala 

Romania

Albania

Kosovo

Turkey

Jordan 

&&

Thailand

Praying for all of the souls that we will encounter in each of these locations. Praying over each and every one of our team members that we will put on the love of Christ and love on all of these people. 8 days from now I will have 35 new friends from all over the country as we prepare for this mission ahead of us. God surround us with your protection as we leave our country to help others. 

The past couple days I have been feeling very anxious and nervous to leave the country for 11 months. Being away from family for that long and being across the world is going to be a challenge. I was reading the word this morning and I also started a new devotional and in Philippians 4:4, Paul is offering a "prescription" for anxiety and worry. This prescription begins with a call to "rejoice in the Lord always." To obey this command it first starts out by recognizing the sovereignty of God. When we recognize heaven has an occupied throne, we need to start allowing the Lord to be in control. Our anxiety decreases as our understanding of God increases. 

Even though I will be leaving everything behind such as my family, boyfriend, friends and my comfort I know that the God that I serve is still on the throne. In Matthew 6:33 it states to seek first the Kingdom of God and all of these things will be given unto you. I will continue to serve God for the rest of my life but in this season it is meant to be overseas. Praying that God will use this time to use me for his Kingdom but that also lives are changed. 

So today I will rejoice in the Lord that he has given me the opportunity to spread the Gospel overseas and that I am still willing to obey what he has called me to do. This next week of my life I am going to spend it with my family, and amazing man who I now call my boyfriend :) and the people in my life that I love the most. 

God is still good.