What are the chances??? part 2

Writing yesterday's blog about "what are the chances?" has my mind spinning through a million memories and moments. Its quite incredible to see where God can take you and what He can do . . . tonight i am thinking particularly of WHERE God has taken me.

I realized that I have been to at least 10 different countries. . . not counting the countries unless i left the airport and saw some of the country!

I have been to different countries for Sports/Competitions.
I have been to different countries for Evangelism/Mission work.
I have been to different countries as a tourist.

I have been to:
- Swaziland - more than once [cant remember how often]
- Uganda
- Albania - 5 short visits, then a 6th visit that lasted 6 years
- England
- France
- Belgium
-Holland
- Turkey
-Kosovo - 3 times [i think it was only 3]
- America - twice - but i have a feel a few more visits to this country will happen.

Its incredible. If i look at my life i realize that i have always been in the lower income earning bracket, barely making ends meet each month. For at least 6 years of my life i lived only on donations, and yet I have been able to visit so many countries. It is nothing short of a miracle. Indeed it is a miracle.

I remember i used to have a map of the world on my wall and  i would pray for a different country each day, longing to visit it. i remember sitting with my atlas, reading the list of countries at the back, marking off how many i had been to and how many i would like to go to. i remember silently whispering a prayer that i would visit all the countries on earth before i die. There is still breath in my lungs and time on the clock and when i look at what God has already done, i know its not beyond impossible. I also know that it has nothing to do with me, that if and when He wants it to happen, nothing can truly stand in His way except my unwillingness to go.

Many of these places and cities or landmarks within cities, where dreams in my heart. Hopes. But God gave my hopes wings.
- Seeing Las Vegas and New York. Spending time in the Louvre.
They seemed far fetched . . . but not in God. And what amazes me is that not all of these trips where ministry related, some where just for fun or sport [literally]. He is bigger than just fulfilling a function, our souls are important to Him too.

I have lived, He has allowed me to travel. I have seen many climates and a diverse amount of scenery. I have met a multitude of people from far more countries than i have visited. I just had no idea that in the last 2 decades of my life, that God could not only take me to so many places, despite not being rich, but that He could cross my paths with so many people from different nations. [I think that I have met people from America, the Caribbean -more than one of its islands, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Germany, England, China, Korea, Australia, Uganda, DRC, Lesotho, Burundi, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Nigeria,  Switzerland, France, Holland, Turkey, Brazil, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, India, Israel, Iran, Russia, Greece. . . this is just a quick count off the top of my head. I am sure that there are many other nations that i have had the privilege of meeting people from.

You never know what He has in store. look back, see what all He has done already, and know that in the future to come, He will so do immeasurably more than we could ever ask or imagine by His divine power at work within us.

Dream Big. . . you never know where [literally] He can take you. Don't limit your dreams. Don't limit your God.

Because as much as you might wonder, "what are the chances?" He already has an answer to that question.