That was God's command to me last night.
It had been a while since I allowed myself to fully listen to what God wanted to tell me. I didn't want to be convicted. I didn't want to be told that I was doing wrong.
Funny thing. God didn't. All He kept repeating to me over and over again:
You are loved. You are loved. You are loved. You are loved. You are loved.
Then, He reminded me:
Danbi, don't be content. I have so much more to give you. So much more. Ask for more. Seek for more.
Matthew 7:7: Ask and it will be given to you; Seek and you will find; Knock and the door will be opened for you
It's really been easy to be content now that I've raised $3650. It wasn't easy raising that money, but seeing that sum now I had/have forgotten how each donation was God's touch on my life. It was His way of loving me in another amazing way.
$100: After talking to a sister in Christ, I was facebooking when God moved in me to ask her to give. I had already asked her to pray for me and had given a support letter. But because she never said anything about supporting me financially after I gave the letter, I thought that was that. But God said to me:
Danbi, you should ask. So I did. She responded soon after that she would love to. With the financial support, she gave me a verse: (God also reminded me of this verse earlier for this season! -look below-)
2 Timothy 2:13 If we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself.
$2000: My parents. As I prayed about this in a time where I was discontent with this because I also wanted a cool story of how a stranger I met gave me a lot of money. First, God humbled me and told me that I need to be more grateful.
Very true. Then, He showed my dad giving me to God. That was what my dad was doing as he supported the missions trip. He was giving me back to my ultimate Father.
$200: He wanted to give to me because he had recently been blessed by God and had been praying on how to give back. At that exact timing, he received my letter. He shared his life verse with me as he encouraged me and gave financial support.
Jeremiah 20:9: But if I say, "I will not mention him or speak any more in his name, his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed I cannot.
$100: I had sent this letter to my friend who is still in high school. She and her group of friends had encouraged me through their tumblr and facebook posts because of their desire for God. I visited her family and was really surprised when she and their family wanted to support me financially. I had sent the letter to their daughter in high school, not even to the parents. And I wasn't expecting financial support, and had actually hesitated on sending that letter because I told God that I needed to only send to those that could support me financially. God reminded me that prayer is more important my strategy of how to raise support because its all about God, and not about me.
(Right now, I have shared the stories that total up to $3350. The other stories will come in a later post!)
God is good. And yes, I still have to raise about a $1000 more dollars to make the final goal. But, as God is calling me, I will seek more of Him. He can and will give me the needed money and so much more so that His name will truly be lifted on high!
God, let me be bold in my prayer and walk just as David was bold when He stood before Goliath)
1 Samuel 17:45-47: "David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, who you have defied. This day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give all of you into our hands.
