It all began with...


  A prayer. And then another one, and then one more; it kept on going on. I was in my senior year of high school and, unlike all of my classmates, I had no idea of what I was going to do after I'll be graduated from high school. They all seemed to know exactly what they wanted from life: some were going to be law students, future doctors, teachers etc. , but I was battling in my head that I knew I was not going to win unless I had help from above. 

  I wanted to go to college and have a normal life as everyone else, but at the same time, I knew I wanted to stay and make a difference among the people who needed to have a lighthouse in the darkness of the world. It has been a cruel battle between my personal desires, my earthly self and the plan that I knew God had for me. It seemed like nothing was going anywhere further, I felt stuck in prayer, I felt stuck in my personal relationship with Him at that time and I thought that I will never get the answer to my question and that is "What do you want from me now, Daddy?"

  Not long after graduating, I had the opportunity of going to a Christian camp in the city of Cluj-Napoca, which is about 575 km distance driving from where I live. I had wanted to go to that camp for a very long time, so that was my first time there; somehow, I made my expectations really high, thinking that God was going to reveal the answer to me there...

  Once I got there, I felt stuck again, I couldn't experience anything with God and that made me feel anxious and worried, even angry since everyone else in that camp was experiencing healing, visions, and complete changes. Not long after I got back from Cluj, I left for Italy where I stayed for about 2 weeks and a half. THAT has changed my life! 

  My vacation there was pretty nice, the places I have visited were incredibly beautiful, such as the Mediterranean Sea for example, but that was not why it has changed my life. While I was there, I have experienced feelings of loneliness at a whole new level. So I started to pray and ask for an answer. I was missing Romania incredibly much for absolutely no reason and I was questioning myself day by day. I had reached to the point where God has given me the answer to my prayers and that was that I had to go back to my place of birth and start to fish for people. 

After I got back to Romania, I had decided to start working for Outstretched Hands of Romania, an organization that wants to raise an army of children and poor to bring the gospel to the unreached parts of Romania. This amazing organization with great people is being found in Calarasi, in the south-eastern Romania, at the border with Bulgaria. 

  The most interesting thing that I experienced in Italy is that sometimes He wants to take us away from our place of comfort, where we usually get distracted by several things, so that He can share a secret with us, in a place of nothingness let's say, or like I called it, in a far away desert where we can closely pay attention to what He wants to speak to us. So, if you are facing a hard time when it comes to knowing God's plan for your life, just pray and ask Him to take you away in a place of nothingness, in your own desert and He will reveal Himself to you right there, I promise! 


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