Hakuna Matata

I feel Jesus was the one who came up with this wonderful phrase. A life with Jesus is supposed to be carefree! I feel there are so many times in my life that i forget that when the lord says he has plans for us, he really means it!

This last week worry overcame me. With the engineering career fair coming up, every chemical engineer was looking for job, but as of late i am feeling call to be a church planter. With this mindset, it was very hard to listen to companies talk about getting jobs and planning your life because honestly, I don't have any personal plans for my life outside of being a missionary. As the companies were talking, fear overcame me. I was afraid that i would end up forsaking the calling Jesus put on my life and caving in and getting a cooperate job here in America. Not to say that there is anything wrong with cooperate America, but I just want what Jesus has for me. So this worry was carried with me throughout the day as i was studying and thinking about my future. I needed a renewal of my mind, and that’s what Jesus gave me. I went to life group and the Lord showed up. Through a long list of prophetic words and the Holy Spirit working, all fear and worry disappeared. It was like Jesus was the only thing on my mind and what mattered. Love It! The Lord so desired to renew my mind by giving me a perspective shift, he is the only thing we need to focus on.

The Lord then reminded me of this story from Africa that was just like this worry issue i faced. So i was in the middle of a village going from house to house praying for healing. We saw a couple of awesome healing of sickness and we felt the holy spirit moving! During this time I and my friend Aaron ran into a man who was drunk out of his mind. We began to talk to him and boy was he a complainer. He started to complain about all the problems in Uganda, probably because he knew we were American. He was saying Uganda was so poor, he didn't have any food, he didn't have any money, and everything in his life was bad, including some chest pain. He was angry and worried about so much. So at one point i just stopped him and asked if we could pray for all of that stuff and he said it was okay. So I and Aaron started to declare everything over his life. Healing, blessing, peace, you name it. And after we were done praying, he look up and said, "The lord is good." The Lord sobered him up and accepted Jesus right there! All pain in his body was gone and all the problems of the world vanished! Sound familiar?

Ps. I love the Lion King

We become so focused on problems that we dig ourselves into huge holes of worry and fear. And the lord wants to solve that problem by letting us encounter what life is really about, him. The world seems so big whenever we take our eyes away from the Lord. Jesus doesn't want us to live a life full of worrying or a live where we plan every single detail out because he when we rely on our own strength in our future, we end up a hot mess. What it comes down to is being dependent on who Jesus is. If we truly realized the power he has given us and the promises he is keeping, worry wouldn't exist. It is hard not to worry, but it is so worth it. I am still in a process of removing all worry and fear from my life and that process begins by giving everything to the Lord. Graham Cooke always talks about how he hasn't had a worried thought in like 20 years because he has learned to completely renew his mind. That perspective change is something the Lord desires for all of us. Hakuna Matata.