Send Me

Saturday 19th February 2011

It wasn’t by accident at 11 years of age my mum encouraged me to go to my very first Planet Shakers conference with a different church in a different state, even though I wanted to go I was SO scared. I didn’t know anybody!!! Well I did know two girls that I had grown up with but I hadn’t seen them for years and they had all their friends that they hang out with. I was scared that they would just leave me all by myself. I was very shy and would find it hard to talk to people. I cried everyday for the long week that I was away.

God had me there for a reason!!! Throughout the conference we sang a song ‘Send Me’. This became the cry of my heart for the conference. In my worship to God I seeked him with no other agenda apart from seeing his heart. On the fourth day at conference we sang this song again and God placed a heavy burden on my heart for Africa. I started weeping for the country and their people. The words ‘Send Me’ weren’t just words to me, I was asking God to send me to the nation of Africa. 

I had most defiantly felt just a fraction of God’s heart. This burden, that seemed to  come from nowhere, became stronger over the next few days and God revealed what His purpose for my life was. On the second last night, while I was worshipping, a stranger came and prayed for me. Honestly I have no idea what they prayed for still to this day (as the music was so loud) but I felt something that I had never felt before, I felt God’s hand on my life.

At just 11 years of age I knew God had set me apart and that one day I would go to Africa. What I would do over there, I had no idea but that is something that God showed to me over the next 12 years.