Trust Me God Whispered

by Susan Mead, in category #DanceWithJesus Linkup, Faith

Trust Me, I’ve got you.

I heard this whisper deep in my soul earlier this year. Immediately, I knew God was directing me to place all my doubt and insecurity into His mighty hands to learn to trust Him with the big plan AND all the details of committing to go on a mission trip – my first.

Doubt? Insecurity? Yes, I confess, I was doubting what I felt called to do and insecure about my ability to do it. As if it were truly up to me in the first place!

I heard a whisper deep in my soul, "Trust Me." God is teaching me new ways to trust Him as I plan and prepare to participate in my first mission trip. Malawi - I had to look it up on the map to see where it's located, yet here I go, trusting Godin new ways to provide for my physical, spiritual and financial needs.

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I’ve invited each one of you to come to Malawi with me in a prior post. And oh how I NEED your prayers; before we go, while we are there and as we return home. The stories I’ve heard of others who were not adequately covered in prayer serves as an eye opener to me.

So I restate my need for prayers from you as the team of ten prepare to go as well as while we are there. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, for I know your prayers are without walls. They go before us to prepare the way for the time we are physically there. They bless us while we are preparing, traveling and ministering. And they open the hearts of the people we will meet.

Please pray for favor with the village chiefs that we may pray for them, their village people, and specifically that I may pray with the women in their villages.

Pray for protection for any and all people – and things – that do not want us ministering there. We are going into a Muslim village – and landing in a total of 5 African countries – as we traverse two continents and an ocean on this trip.

Pray for divine encounters that I cannot begin to imagine yet God orchestrates as only He can. We will be working within a refuge camp in addition to a small village on Lake Malawi. Thank you for lifting the needs of these precious children of God to Him. Pray that our mighty God directs our steps to each person He wants us to minister to while there – and that we hear His guidance and obey.

Pray we see His glorious creation – both in the people, the animals and the spectacular landscape we will experience – and that we remember to pause to thank Him.

May I share the story with you of raising funds to go to Malawi? The minute I said yes, a local ministry donated $1000 towards my airfare. Only God knows the moment we say yes, yet they knew I said yes too. Thank you Lord! That grew my faith as I learned to trust You to provide in a new way, Father God.

My list of things to do topped the mail pile in the kitchen a couple of weeks ago. My sister dropped in for a visit and noticed my list as she was leaving. She asked, “What is this? You have a note to raise funds for a mission trip. Where are you going and what do you need?”

Malawi! It’s in Eastern Africa. We will be gone for about 2 1/2 weeks and I’ll need approximately $3,500 for my part of the trip.

“Dad would have wanted to support you and I’m sure Mom would too, so I’ll call Chuck (our brother) tomorrow to discuss it with him. I want to support you and I think he will too,” Margaret said.

So before I ever wrote the first post, my sister gathered support from my family – to the tune of $2,400! Plus the $1,000 donation from the local ministry! God is so full of surprises and He is so very good.

I think it’s now time to send an email to my list – yet I better make sure it’s GDPR compliant!  – to raise the remaining $100 for my part of the trip – and to garner support for any of the others needs of the communities we will be serving, as we do want to fund the building of a school room and/or bath facilities.

Man says..Show me and I’ll trust you. God says Trust me and I’ll show you.
Psalm 126:6

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Thank You Lord. I kinda like the way You directed those checks to be “in the mail.” What an amazing surprise!

Yet should you and I be surprised when God’s hand is in a matter? Or when He whispers Trust Me?

Faith is believing that God is going to take you places before you even get there.
Matthew Barnett

Well said, Matthew Barnett! That’s certainly the truth.

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18 thoughts on “Trust Me God Whispered”

  1. Hello Susan! I just wanted to let you know that you were the top viewed post last week at #TuneInThursday and this post will be featured tomorrow! Yay

  3. I love your faith that God will provide all you need for this trip! I’m going to Kenya in September, so I can appreciate that you are asking everyone for prayer – it’s more powerful than we even realize! Visiting from #TuneInThursday. 🙂

  5. Praying for you and the mission, Susan. So thankful for your courageous, servant’s heart. May God be glorified.

  6. Yes, God says “trust me and I’ll show you.” So very true. I am taking that with me for today. So very important. Thank you for sharing about His loving presence. My prayers go with you. Visiting from Tea and word Tuesday.

  7. Hi, I discovered your blog through a friendship Friday blog hop. Just wanted to say I enjoyed reading your post and I hope that you have a safe trip. Thank you for hosting this blog hop. faithfilledfeathers.blogspot.com 🙂

  8. Thank you so much for sharing your call to the mission field and for being transparent about your initial doubt and insecurity. The Lord has certainly shown you that His hand is all over your being called and oh what an encouragement that must be to you.

    Agreeing with you in prayer on all counts and trust that the “Lord will go before you and be with you, that He will not leave you or forsake you.”

    May the Lord multiply the work of your hands while you are there and bless you and keep you.

  11. Susan, I just love the way God works to make a way before we even know we have the need, or even as we are just discovering the need. God is good and your trip is going to be amazing! Not just for you and the team, but for all those you meet as well. Have a blessed holiday weekend, and I know God will fulfill all your needs and then some.

  16. Praying for God’s protection, provision and that the power of God would be displayed as you minister around the globe! You go girl! But… before you go we need to connect. I have time next week to talk if you do??? 🙂 Email me Monday if you can.
    ~Sherry
    xoxo

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