Pushing Back Darkness

You will love hearing Deborah Lange’s heart in this post.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.

This is one of those verses I’ve heard all my life. But I think its so incredible when scripture moves from being just the truth you know from the bible to a truth in your life.

God has fulfilled the promise of this verse in so many ways in my life…directing me to a two week trip to Africa in March this year and then to go back again for a month this summer and now He has directed my path to move back to that same orphanage for six months this time. A year ago I had no idea all this was part of the plan He had for me. But He knew it and was preparing my heart and life for this all along. Now I couldn’t imagine anything else. Being involved in Africa has been one of the most fulfilling and strengthening experiences of my life!

Knowing this truth of how perfectly His plan works out and seeing it played out in my life so clearly already, I am able by God’s grace to have a strong peace and confidence to move forward again confident in Him that He will continue to direct my path faithfully.

I’m not sure what all the next 6 months will hold for me but I know and believe without a doubt that if I just keep trusting and leaning on Him, He will continue to direct my path. I also understand full well what that path could possibly hold for me, there could be frustrations, pains, persecution and other struggles. But I believe that if I’m following the path God has laid out for me that path will also hold the most fulfillment, joy, blessings, and rewards I could imagine!!

This isn’t a completely new path for me. Just another leg to the journey He has had me on my whole life.

Throughout this next season of preparation and missions work in Africa I will be blogging the things that happen on this path, what God teaches me, how God is working in Africa and at the orphanage, and how you can be involved.

I invite you to follow along with me. One of the biggest blessings and a huge encouragement to me is to have the prayers and support of my family and friends and fellow believers back home.

Thanks so much to each one of you who reads this blog, prays, and supports the ministry God is doing in Africa that I just get to be a part of.

Read this one more time and really let this truth sink into your heart…

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.