The Breakdown

Ok so the time has come!!! Ahhhhhh!!!! Reality is setting in and reality is that I NEED YOUR HELP! God has really been humbling me lately because I do not want to ask for help..... I sometimes feel like a spoiled child. I have too much, so I feel so undeserving to ask for anything. But this week I was reminded that I am a Child of the Most High! Call it spoiled if you must, but I know that He has everything taken care of! I am an heir to everything He has and so are you! Sometimes we are just so afraid to ask for what already belongs to us! This week my amazing friend Audrey Kuruvilla spoke in our Young Adults service. She shared about a story we are most likely familiar with, "The Prodigal Son". However, she gave it a little twist when she mentioned the other brother. There were actually three sons but we forget about the other two because well its, "The Prodigal Son's" story after all. So I just want to share a little snippet of her sermon with you! The story is found in Luke 11:15-32. Take some time to read it. But here is a little summary for you. 

We all know that the Prodigal Son basically just went buck wild.  The Bible says “he took his inheritance and squandered with prostitutes". So needless to say, it was B-A-D. The prodigal takes his father's money, spends it on bad things, a famine breaks over the land and it affects everyone. He becomes a little desperate and we know the end of the story to be when the prodigal returns. The father comes running to him and then there is a celebration! No hard feelings, nothing, but forgiveness and love! This story is so awesome because it shows us an amazing picture of the father's love for us! Man! I just love the Lord! Ok so read on a little bit!  In verse 25, there is a twist! The mysterious just as important older brother enters the plot! This is when it gets good! He is sooo ticked! How would you feel!? You have been the good kid all your life, you are out working hard in the field, when all of a sudden your prostitute squandering brother comes home and gets to have a party and eat the biggest fattest calf right in the middle of a famine!!!!! Yeah anger! Steaming anger! Oh not to mention he has never even gotten a goat in the good times! Ok well let’s read the father's response: v.31 "My son, the father said, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours". Really! Ok Dad! So all I had to do is ask!?! That son lived with his father but never really knew him. He had no idea that his dad was so loving, so giving, and so awesome! His dad could not understand why the son was so upset. He just thought that the son knew that everything he had was his! I don’t know about you but that just really got me! We love God, we are with Him, but we forget that everything He has belongs to us! We just have to know Him well enough to ask for it! So enough is enough! Let’s really get to know God and quit looking at what everyone else has and start asking for what is rightfully ours! He loves us so much! We don’t have to work and be slaves to God! We simply just need to get to know Him.

So before this amazing sermon last week I had what I call a BREAKDOWN!  You know the ugly cry kind of breakdown! Haha I just kept telling the Lord that I could not ask people for money! Well if you know about missions, you kind of don’t have a choice. So in the midst of the breakdown God being God just made it all make sense! He reminded me that I am not asking for myself but I am asking for someone else. The inheritance that God has promised me is not money. The inheritance is His perfect plan for my life. I have asked for Him to make a way for me to get to Ecuador! It’s something I want.  It’s my dream to help others! This dream has always been there, my Father has always had this dream waiting for me just to ask Him for it! So that brings me to this! I have asked God and I know He will answer. And, now that I made it through the breakdown, I have a question to ask you! Will you help me?!

To keep the breakdown alive haha, I decided to break it down. I need the following number of people to commit to give one of the amounts listed each month.

Monthly Pledge:          
$5-     7 people
$10-   18 people
$15-   20 people
$20-   14 people
$25-   20 people

$50-   12 people

$75-   2 people
$100- 2 people

If you would like to become a monthly supporter while I am on the field you may do so by clicking the tab at the top of the homepage. All donations are tax deductible and will be processed securely by the Assemblies of God. You may also give a one time donation if you would like! Thank you for taking the time to read this! I honestly cannot thank you enough for you prayers and love! If you have any questions please email me at leah.diaz@ma.agmd.org! THANK YOU!