Posted in General Posts by Rebekah King on 9/25/2010
This is one blog that i truly never thought i would ever have to write. it is one of the hardest things i have had to do and to trust God with. Tomorrow night I will be getting on a plane and heading back to the United States. Due to some medical issues, it is best if i finish my race at home where I can have access to medical care when I need it. This is not a decision I wanted to have to make, in fact i truly hate it. i love the world race and i love my teammates and i love community. but I am accepting this as the Lords plan. I feel like I am in a dark tunnel where I dont know why I am in it or where I am going but all i know is im holding the Lords hand being led into the darkness. This is not an easy thing for me, its bittersweet leaving my world race family. I am not forcing any processing or any conversations about why I am leaving yet, I am just soaking in the Lords presence trying to find him amongst this mess. I am focusing on all that I accomplished and all that I saw and all that the Lord did in me. And this is what Im celebrating. The Lord has done a HUGE work in me and he is not done yet. So yes I miss my teammates and I will be praying for them like crazy, all thats going on is my ministry is going to look a little different than theirs for the next 7 months. I am in as good of a place as I could be, and will eventually get to a place when I can talk more about what happened and whats really going on. But I am just not there yet. I got some stuff to figure out but until then I covet your prayers and love. Thank you for all of the support.
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Posted in General Posts by Rebekah King on 9/15/2010
EUROPE!!!!!
Here is to the past 3 months of my life. Reality is that the race is tougher than you could ever imagine yet it is so rewarding in soooo many ways
1) You realize that no matter how hard you try, you will always end up with dirt under your nails. Thank God for manicure sets that you put to good use EVERYDAY!!!!
2) Your clothes will for the most part always smell. Washing machines in other countries just aren't the same.
3) Squatty potties... IM DEFINITELY OVER! and guess what, i have 7 more months of them. praying for a good attitude.
4) Teammates have become family. I have moved from having to love them into getting and wanting to love them. I genuinely loved my old team. Oh yeah by the way, I got a new one. They are sooo incredibly awesome. I stayed with Garrett and Rachael and picked up Tom and Casey (the married couple), Brittany, and Anmari.
5) Little things make you happy. Like finding dried bananas, your favorite shampoo, or finding STARBUCKS.
6) You get so tired of your vacuum seal bags and seeing your stuff explode everywhere after you open them.
7) You pick up accents from every country. And start to speak in simple sentences with simple words. You forget when speaking to family back home that you can use complex sentences and complicated words. hahaha
8) Pepto becomes your favorite candy. And hand sanitizer is kept in your back pocket.
9) Getting together with the squad is like being on a college campus. There are friends everywhere.
So these are just a few quirks of the race. Some of them are good and some of them are tough. But honestly, I would not trade anything to be where I am at right now. Sitting in Africa, writing a blog (well maybe not the blogging thing), hearing kids playing outside, getting ready to preach a sermon by the seat of my pants, hearing Casey and Brittany talking, listening to Garrett practice the guitar, hearing my stomach growl in anticipation of the lunch to come, feeling the cool African rain season breeze, drinking my kenyan tea, and having Pastor Joel bring in some sugarcane as a snack. T.I.A.... this is Afica, ain't no other place i'd rather be.
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Posted in General Posts by Rebekah King on 9/15/2010
So im laying here in my bed in Kenya. Before me I have laid out all of my pictures and i look at each individual one several times. I think about all the love that these photos capture. All the life moments these pictures hold. I start to think about how much each person means to me and what life would be like without them. Would I still be happy, would I still be joyful, would I still love as much as I do. I realize the impact that people have on my life. This is what I get to be to people around the world this year. I get to bring the message of hope and joy. I get to bring freedom. This year that I am traveling I will never get back. So I realize that I need to jump at every opportunity to be a friend to someone. I need to have deep heartfelt compassion for, the underdog. kids. the needy. the hurting. the helpless. the hungry. the friendless. the blind. the deaf. the unheard. the forgotten. the slaved. the captive. the hurting. the overworked. the chosen of God. I am jumping in with both feet, saying YES LORD USE ME. use me to bring love to these people. I want to bring kingdom to the nations. I am nothing but a vessel for Christ to pour his love out. How humbling is that..... that he could use anyone, he doesn't need me. Yet, he chose me for this very place and this very time. INCREDIBLE!!!!! so you guessed it. i am taking this season I have been blessed with and using every opportunity to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth
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Posted in General Posts by Rebekah King on 8/26/2010
We just spent a week at a family camp, where we used the F word all week.... We were told when we arrived at camp that our 2 favorite words this week were going to be FUN and FAITH and these were to be the 2 f words we used all week. haha. The first half of the week was really difficult for me. The kids we were ministering to were from the outskirts of Dublin. They come from broken backgrounds. These kids have had to witness things that no child dare i say any person should have to witness. These kids have been hardened by the environment they have grown up in. For me, I had never really spent time with kids that had this kind of background. I initially wrote these kids off, and that I would never be able to say anything to them that would make their situation any better. I had nothing to offer them, words aren't enough anymore. These kids needed hope and I didnt know how to deliver it to them. But a 45 minute car ride changed everything. I was able to have a convo with someone who helped run the amp. And my perception of the kind of person he was, but i was completely off target. He is doing so much work for the kingdom and has an awesome heart for the Lord. The Lord spoke to me about how wrong my first impressions are. My challenge: To see the world and to see people with eternal vision. To see people and value their eternal worth. I no longer just want to change the earth, I want to bring kingdom and bring eternal glory to the nations. My whole attitude changed after this encounter. I was full of joy and truly gave these kids my all. I did nothing but love on them and try to be Jesus to them. They needed someone to show them the words that they keep hearing. And we used the f word all week.... FUN :)
This is my goal that my actions would show love. Towards my teammates, towards my contacts, towards my family, towards Nick, towards my enemies, and towards the nations. God has placed inside of me a desire for more, a desire to love people at first site. Is it going to be hard to pour my heart on people, undoubtedly it will be hard. But i count it as a challenge form the Lord. And i am whole heartedly here and ready to take it on.
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Posted in General Posts by Rebekah King on 8/10/2010
So this month in ireland, we are working with amazing contacts. they are so fantastic and have huge hearts for seeing revival breakout in Dublin. So first off on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we are working with a ministry that provides a meal and clothes and other essential items to the homeless. They provide a time for worship and a testimony. During the day, we do various activities around the building working for the “slavedriver” as we like to call him. We have been organizing clothes and getting packages ready for the homeless. Alot of giggles and games are to be had in this basement. Then at night we socialize and hang out with the homeless, these are my new friends for the month. It is truly amazing, one guy last week shared his testimony and i started crying. God spoke to me and said this is why your here, to bring the kingdom to the hopeless so i can change the course of their lives. They are no longer just words i say but doubt in my heart, i truly know that i am here for a purpose. I am here to be broken for those that are lacking, that are addicted, and those who are loveless. Then on the other days we are working with another local ministry, and our contact there is absolutely fabulous. She is hilarious and she radiates God's love. Our main ministry there will be a family camp we put on next week. Where we will camp with the families and pour ourselves on them. So yes, i do get to finally use my tent and test it out before Africa. Lets pray for good weather and the holy spirit to pour himself on this camp. For alot of these families this will be the only time they hear the gospel. So we need clean slates and God to wipe away pre conceived notions of what a Christian and who God is. I want to be able to show them the love of Christ, just by my actions. I am soooo excited to be able to pour who God is into them. So this will be our main 2 ministries here in Dublin. My heart is in such a different place it is so cool to be able to put to use what God is doing in my heart. I am such a different person from month 1 that I finally get to put into practice the Love of Christ. I get to walk in the spirit everyday, loving on the unloved. This should be the mandate of every Christian. So my challenge, to you believers is to live in the Spirit every moment of the, to see with the eyes of God. Who has he put in your path to minister to, look outside of yourself, there is a broken world that needs the hope that is inside of you.
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Posted in General Posts by Rebekah King on 8/10/2010
These first few days of Ireland have been literally heavenly. The Lord is pouring his love on me. He has me in a very sweet season of just wanting to be in his presence. It has been a huge blessing to have wifi in the hostel where we are staying, because i am able to stream the prayer room when im just sitting and not doing anything. Within hours of stepping off the plane and into the hostel, we find out that there is a huge soccer game going on in Dublin and it is going to a be a packed house. So being the adventurous team we are say “well is it possible to get any tickets for tonights game” the man behind the counter said yeah maybe at the gate if your lucky. We almost brush it off figuring that we would not be able to find tickets all together. So we decide to walk around the town and just sight see a little. WELL GOD IS GOOD and we find tickets. So with roughly 4 hours of sleep in 48 hours, we begin to make our way to the game. It is almost like game day in the states, people are everywhere and the streets are crowded and you can just feel feel the adrenaline flowing through everyone. It was probably the greatest night on the race so far. I was going to get to see some of the best players play soccer, in Ireland. I had to be pinched a couple of times to realize that this wasnt a dream this really is my life.  The picture belows is me and one of my squadmates and now friends LOGAN! who has been a God send to me on the race. Dublin is proving to be such a exciting city full of life and adventure. It has been a struggle to just get alone time though because there is ALWAYS something going on. I stay up until the wee hours of the night talking with random people in the hostel. I love doing ministry now, I love community. that is not at all sarcastic, i truly LOVE my teammates. Some of them are even a little weird sometimes.
TEAM LOVESICK 514
This
is a picture of Garrett (my fearless team leader on the right) and Matt
( who is on the left) at the soccer game, needless to say they were a
little excited..
It was good to come out of a really tough month and to finally see everyone smiling and having fun again. It has been such a blessing to not have to force feelings for my teammates, i truly enjoy them and love them. TEAM LOVESICK 514 all the way :)
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Posted in General Posts by Rebekah King on 7/27/2010
This
past couple of weeks my team and I have walked through some spiritual highs and
some spiritual darkness. I personally am dealing with much more than
manifestations of darkness but with life
questions that need to be dealt with. I am attempting to process these
questions with God and my team. Many questions have been asked and not all of
them have been answered. But i have faith that my God will reveal the heavenly
answers to my heart. As i seek his face and his wisdom he WILL be faithful to
answer me. I no longer want to rely on commentaries written by earthly men, I
want to seek revelation of scripture from the ultimate creator of knowledge. So
in our morning feedback session lots of thoughts were provoked and I just
wanted to sit and cry in the presence of my God. He showed me several things in
Matthew 8. Matthew 8 deals with several stories of Jesus healing people in
different communities. I am just amazed at the amount of faith these people
possessed. They did not ask for Jesus to physically come into their lives and
change everything. No they asked him to just say one word and touch their
sickness. That is the amount of faith that it takes to be healed. It is the
knowledge that just one word and heal everything and then to the faith to take
what you have seen Jesus do previously and to believe that he can show up in
your life as well. Dealing with my situation on the race honestly I was seeking
the Lords faith but i truly lacked the faith to believe that what I read in the
bible applies to my life. Matthew 8: 17 "He himself took our infirmities and
bore our sicknesses." That darkness truly has no power of my heart because I
have been bought with the blood of Christ. That the stories in the Bible truly
do apply to my life. I am being stretched to live out the life the bible speaks
of. To not only have the faith that moves mountains but to believe that with
that faith that I can move those mountains. I am moving into knowing that as a
daughter of Christ, God has equipped me with what i need to change the world
for his glory. And then in turning using this knowledge to change my life and
to live out this faith filled life. That it would not just be words but it
would be a life filled with actions that speak of this faith. I no longer want
to just see words on a page but to see life filled scriptures. Colossians 1: 16
"For by him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or
powers. All things were created through him and for him." My desire is that I
would learn to walk in this knowledge, that whenever I face darkness that my
father created this and he has power over it. And he WILL hear my cry and WILL
rescue me out of darkness. I no longer want to just know about Gods power but i
want to live out Gods power.
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Posted in General Posts by Rebekah King on 7/17/2010
God has called his followers to be kingdom bringers and life givers. But the question is does everyone accept this as their calling. When I got on the race this was simply an obedience answer. God called me to finally answer the calling upon my life. After just one month on the race, my whole outlook about the race has changed. It is not just simply something that i have answered to, it is something i desire. I desire to with open arms accept what God has called me to. And let me tell you, it has changed my whole attitude. I feel so alive. God is moving on this earth and will we with open arms accept what he is doing. Whatever that may look like, will we abandon ourselves to this holy movement. It may look completely different than what we thought but will we follow God no matter what. Just think about how different the world would look if we as believers cried out with open arms for the Lord to shake this earth. So join me in crying out for God to move in the nations and in our homes. We need to return to our first love and bring this world back into what it was created for. We were created for the Lord and i am running into that destiny. No looking back. It is time for us to answer to our destinies and shake the world.
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Posted in General Posts by Rebekah King on 7/17/2010
Im going to jump right into this. God is moving. He is asking us to open our eyes to things outside of ourselves. To go beyond just seeing people as humans, but to see them as his creation as his beloved. God is calling a generation to seek his face and to cleanse their eyes of the filth of this world. He is calling for pure generation. We do not need to seek things of this earth anymore, we need to cry out for eternal things. There is so much more to life than what we are living. I am praying and crying out to be broken for the things that God sees. I want nothing more than to see people and see these nations as God sees them. I am looking to the heavens where my destiny is. And i am being called to more. I am dying to the things of this earth but coming alive in the things of the kingdom. I am being changed and molded into one that would stand upon the wall crying out for the return of the king. For the king of kings to take control of what is his inheritance. Will anyone join me. He is calling us. And you can either become apart of what God is doing or go about your life. But i will no longer stand by and watch the world die. God is bringing life to the dead nations and i AM going to be apart of it. Not by my might but that I would just be a vessel for God's glory.
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Posted in General Posts by Rebekah King on 7/13/2010
I am reminded this morning of how much my God loves me. He not only wants to be there in the big moments of my life but also heavily involved in my daily life. To not get too spiritual but I believe that he wants to be there for every decision. He wants to love on me in everything. Funny story: 2 of my favorite things are Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Waffle house with my dad. If given the option of choosing what I do on a date with my dads, i chose to do those 2 things. So anyway...... the other day I was sitting thinking about how much i miss krispy kreme and then a facebook ad popped up for krispy kreme. My cravings then shot up to a whole new level. Later that day we went to the mall and I went about my business. And i decided to get some food and was walking to get a gyro and spotted a doughnut. IT WAS A GIFT FROM GOD!!!!! I got so giddy because here I am in Romania far from home and i found my favorite snack. I felt God just loving on me saying I will provide your every need, but this is special. He does not have to bless me, he wants to love on me ALL DAY and EVERY DAY! i pray, that he would open our eyes to see the little gifts he has for us. Whether it would be in life changing moments or in little things that finding doughnuts in another country, God wants to pour his love upon us.
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