Awake at 2am is what happens when I randomly fall asleep with all the lights on after putting my little ones to bed. Today (or I should say yesterday) Michelle and I reached our financial goals for our trip to Africa. I opened an envelope with $1,000 and was floored yet again. Thank you to everyone who has contributed!!! We are both overwhelmed by your generosity and willingness to partner with us. We have received SO many amazing cards and words of encouragement. We can not tell you how much we truly appreciate those of you who have prayed and continue to lift us up in prayer.
Last June, when we decided that we would travel to Africa together, we both strongly felt that we wanted to be purposeful about our time leading up to going. I can honestly say since I committed a lots been being rearranged in me. He has broken me in ways that I could have never expected, He's drawn into me and pulled out things I didn't even know I was living with. Walls in relationships, lies accepted as truths, patterns of behavior, limiting view points. All the while speaking and calling, stirring and moving in His gentle strength. With correction and care to beautiful for words..... He is getting me undone continually.
Tonight as I was sitting here worshiping, God spoke this again to me:
Do you trust me? Do you trust me with your heart, with your brokenness, with the girls...? Do you really know that I am in your midst, that I have conquered death and suffering? Do you believe that I will rise you up from the ashes, that I already have? Do you know I am using you as an instrument to share the hope that lives, to share me? Do you really believe I live in you? There is nothing that can separate us. Do you believe me.....?
Then go and freely love as I have freely given you love. Tell the world who I am, and the things I have done, and I will do even more than you can possibly imagine. Say yes, I have already said yes to you. Trust me with your heart and live. And yes, you will be pressed on every side but I will not let you be crushed. I will never leave you, you are mine and I am yours from now unto eternity.
Then go and freely love as I have freely given you love. Tell the world who I am, and the things I have done, and I will do even more than you can possibly imagine. Say yes, I have already said yes to you. Trust me with your heart and live. And yes, you will be pressed on every side but I will not let you be crushed. I will never leave you, you are mine and I am yours from now unto eternity.
He moves on our behalf, he moves on behalf of his children. He calls to us, He calls to others and draws us into each others lives. Thank you for your support, we feel so blessed to be able to go and answer this heart cry God placed within us.
