Why North Dakota
As I reflect back today to when I was a child and reading missionary stories, there were two nations that I particularly liked to read about. A couple of years ago as I was praying over the nations, I was asking God what nations He wanted me to concentrate on. The nations that He gave me included the two that I had loved as a child. Those two nations are nations that I probably would not be received in very well as a woman. They are also nations that most people do not want to have anything to do with because they are so hard to reach. I asked God, “Why, are you giving me these nations?” He told me He was going to send me to places that no one else wanted to go because I said I would go to the ends of the earth for Him and He was taking me at my word. He told me that if I would be faithful to go when He told me to go and to do and say what He told me to do and say, He would open doors that have never been opened before and He would take away my reproach. He reminded me of these words a few days ago when it came up about moving to North Dakota. I had said that North Dakota was “the end of the earth”. And my first tendency was to say “what could happen in North Dakota?”. But God reminded me that He sees things differently than men do and He reminded me of the words I had spoken earlier about going to the ends of the earth for Him. I knew at that moment in my spirit that I would be moving. And there was such peace and contentment. God is tired of the flamboyant manner that is prevalent in other parts of the country with His people. They are expecting Him to do something big in their part of the country because of them and God is going to do it in a part of the country that is least expected to produce a move of God. Like Custer, SD. Like Kenmare, ND. Like many other little unknown places where He finds simple, humble people who love Him for who He is, not what He is able to do for them. It is the least likely ones that are going to rise up in this hour with the words of the Lord.