As I sit here on the plane ride to Jaco, Costa Rica, I cannot help but look back at how good our God is to have gotten me here, with a new definition of His love for me, a refreshed soul, and a fire to serve others. In that regard, i’d like to share my heart in that:
I was reading over prayers in my journal that I had written before I left for training camp and I was brought to tears as I saw the Lord’s goodness tangibly written across the pages. I wanted to give a first hand look into how the power of prayer and full trust in God’s will has changed my calloused heart into a new creation and has engraved this truth forever on my heart: “in all things, God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” romans 8:28
Emily Pomphrett WORLD RACE GAP YEAR 2021 9/11/21
Today is the day. First day of launch !! WRGY LESS GOOO legit so HYPE. I just said some goodbyes to my family – so bittersweet. got some advice to live expectantly and let the Lord love me by my mama. I Checked my bag 49 lbs woah! I walked to gate A21 – fitting for wrgy 21′. Now I am here on the airport floor journaling. I am about to step into the next 9 months and I could not be more excited. My heart KNOWS for sure this was what I was called to, and oh how peaceful, exciting, and glorifying that is. God’s Will is insane and I never want to stray from it. Lord let that be my prayer! Lord, I pray for a mind that is completely focused on YOU in every interaction, hello, goodbye, talk, word, prayer, and deed. Let my soul and mind be fixed on YOU. I pray you will give me understanding, wisdom, strength, perseverance, and hope in you alone. Lord help me allow you to fill me up with Love, not anything else. Lord, help me to keep my gaze fixed on you from the moment I wake up until I lay my head down. You ALONE are worthy and are my ALL in ALL. Help me be slow to anger, quick to listen, and quick to shine your JOY. Lord would you
Fill me with your love so I can overflow to others.
Break my heart for what breaks yours. &
Use everything I am for your Kingdom’s cause.
As I sit here reading those prayers back, my heart can’t help but overflow with gratitude and thanksgiving to the God we serve.
Sitting there on the airport floor, I cried deep prayers to a God who heard me before I was even able to cry aloud. A God who knew my name before my parents did and called me His daughter. A God who orchestrated every step I took, led me away from comfortability, and brought me to not just a 9 month program of abandonment, but a life of abandonment. A program that I had no clue would change my heart, has already in month 2 rewritten my mission statement for the rest of my life. A God who right now is with me, all around me, and is in front of me on this plane to a foreign country with ALL IN written on my heart. A God who was loving enough to allow deep sorrow, pain, hurt, and fear into my life so I could tangibly understand that even amidst adversity, an abundance of JOY is my inheritance. A God who not only delivered me from captivity and into freedom through refinement, but is revealing new ways to bring others to that same freedom daily. A God who taught me my pain and suffering is worth persevering because on the other side is a deep and intimate relationship with Him. A God who has shared his vision of deep purpose, justice, passion, and Love.
So, as I reflect on my request to the Lord to fill me with His love so that I might overflow it to others, I can confidently say that my heart is overflowing with that love.
As I read the prayer for the Lord to break my heart for what breaks His, I have grown a deep empathy for God’s people, no matter what they look like, what they have done, or what their past has said about them.
And as I look back on the deep prayer I pleaded with the Lord to use everything I am for His kingdom’s Cause, the phrase “ALL IN” has grown immense meaning and commitment to view life as missions not just these next 9 months.
All I can say is THANK YOU GOD from the bottom of this renewed and redeemed heart that your love is excessive. You remind us that we were simply born to be loved, and in that gift we get to partner with you. Thank you for going above and beyond by selecting us to glorify YOUR story through OUR testimonies.
This is my deep, joyful, and expectant encouragement to plead, pray, and allow the Lord’s grace rewrite your story.
You have a testimony, so TESTIFY!
In Christ’s Love, Emily
I want to start with, YES. Those prayers will make a difference. I’m about to set off on World Race Expedition and praying those prayers of wanting to be as much like christ as you can be, is so awesome! I know God is going to use those prayers, so be ready for him to move in you.
Praying for you, Emily! Praying that God will lead you and protect you and bless your work for Him! Thank you for your update. Blessings!!
I love getting a close view of the dramatic changes that are happening within you. Your one on one left me so encouraged. Keep laying it down for the King! You are greatly loved. Glad you made it to Costa Rica…. can’t wait to hear the testimonies of all that God has in store for Gap I – TO THE KING!!!
Amen and amen, Emily!! That you may know His love is the great prayer of my heart…and that these 9 months may outline a new vision for you, given only by Him. Love you!!