Our Journey

I am so overwhelmed by the love of God and how He cares for His people. The past six weeks my husband and I were traveling both the West and East Coast of America. It was a long, adventure filled time. A growing, stretching, challlenging and refreshing time. We were in America to connect with new and previously established partnerships and relationships with us, dare2serve and 9941 media. 

In October 2012, The Lord said now is the time to a call that has been on my husband's life for many years...full time ministry. We had been married 5months when this came about. What going full time meant was following and obeying The Lord but there were no finances coming from Rob if we were to do that. So that would mean somehow we would live off of my salary. That is not an easy task to say the least. However, during the time that God was speaking to Rob, He was ever so faithfully speaking to me too. I could see that my husband was wrestling with The Lord and it was so difficult not to just go to him and say...Hey it's ok, God's told me what we're about to do too. Lets do it. Rather I had to wait for The Lord and Rob to do their thing and for Rob to come to me when he was ready. (This is an awesome lesson I am learning in my marriage.) So, Rob did finally come to me and with out a doubt I told him The Lord had given me peace and that this is what we were going to do. Take note that this was NOT the response my husband was expecting from me. You see, in my very natural self I am an absolute control freak, with my 5-10year plan for everything. However, God had prepared me and done a work in me so that i could support and love my husband that way he was going to need me to. So we took a step of faith and Rob went full time. 

At that time, we were due to move out of the house we had been so blessed to be staying in rent FREE!! So that was a rather big concern, as rent in Harare is expensive and more than I earn. BUT The Lord knew and two days after we officially took this step and everyone around us, in our dare2serve team and our church family knew, we got a text message from the owner of our house saying we could spend the next six months there rent free again! Overwhelmed! Only way to explain it. God had already gone before us and made a way where we thought there was no way. So that was one thing taken care of so that we could focus on ministry and what God would have Rob do. We were blessed and humbled. 

So let me tie this up a little, on this trip we have been looking for people to partner with us and support us while we work on growing and developing 9941media, which is ultimately the way in which we and dare2serve will be supported and funded. We believe in self-sustainability and realize that that takes time and hard work. The hard work part we have down, but the time thing we didnt quite comprehend until we were in it and that's ok because it is all part of the journey and learning from your preconceived ideas and mistakes.

While in America, we had very mixed responses from people but the most common was avoidance. Avoiding eye contact in fear of having to be the one to give or support. This was very difficult for Rob and I to understand, deal with, and respond to. However, God began to show Rob how he and we do that in our lives all the time. We avoid eye contact with the beggar on the street corner or the child at the traffic light. We avoid that feeling of being the one to give and sacrifice something. This was vital for The Lord to reveal to us during our time for many reasons. The most important though was the understanding that in our human nature we are all the same, SELFISH!!! I have to say that that is not always an easy realization. I know that for me as a wife I have been learning that intensely over the past year and it is rough. But it is also full of joy and life when we die to ourselves daily. So we now had an understanding and realization that we are exactly the same. 

We shared in many places, with many people, both young and old, and it was difficult for us to comprehend and understand that The Lord was still at work, even when we couldn't see it. We both reached a place during our trip where we felt broken and unsure of what was to come next. I am learning to deeply value that it is after we have reached the complete end of ourselves that The Lord begins to unravel His plans and His workings. 

As we began the end of our journey in Doylestown, Pennsylvania we felt deflated and finished. We were ready to go home but not for any other reason than we were at the end of ourselves. However, God had many surprises in store for us at the very end. The Lord revealed how HE had placed us on peoples hearts halft way across the world that didn't even know us. Many of them had never met Rob or myself, yet The Lord had revealed something to them about how they could serve HIm and bring HIm glory. All the details of our last week are extremely overwhelming and humbling. But the wonderful part is that God broke us down so that as He poured out His blessing and provision we would have no doubt that it came from HIM and HIM alone. Yes, He used people but it was all Him, not Rob or I, not dare2serve or 9941media...JESUS!!!!!!!! 

My hope is that sharing part of our journey with you encourages and strengthens you. That if you find yourself at the end of your rope, there is light that is coming, hold on, don't give up. If you are at a crossroads and The Lord is asking you to obey Him and trust in Him, my prayer is that you would. Obedience is greater than sacrifice. If you are in the midst of the Lord's supernatural provision, my hope is that you would give ALL glory to Him and that you would write down your journey, because a valley will come again and it is the moments of rejoicing and the hope of eternal rejoicing that keep us going. So whereever you find yourself, I pray that you draw near to the heart of Father God your creator and that you find Him in every season and moment of your life.