Since I last blogged so much has happened! The LORD told me to write a newsletter, which is good. But it is hard for me to not get into deep details! :) But I was obedient! It was good. I was thinking about support letters, but the newsletter works out so much better! Miss Amy suggested it, it is our story and it comes so much easier than, "Hey would you like to give money." The LORD has been dealing with me about pride. Don't you hate it when HE shows you something really ucky about yourself? I have been praying that HE helps me fix it. I honestly thought in the beginning that we would sell everything, come back here and both get jobs. That we would pay everything ourselves. I never imagined that we would have donations. I don't like to bother people. Did you know that you can bless someone by allowing them to sow into something that you are doing? WOW. I sure didn't know that till JESUS told me! HE is so smart!
We also have buyers for our house, so that is another reason I haven't blogged for a while. We are close to being done. Really close! I pray it happens soon! It will be nice to have our den back, for whatever time we do! The sweet friends that our buying our house are precious! I just can't be more thankful for them! We didn't even put a for sale sign up! That is ALL JESUS! I have been praying for them that JESUS would bless them with sweet babies!! They are both so beautiful, inside and out. And it will bless us so much to have believers buy this house!! What an honor that they will pray, and raise their babies here!! That this will be a house of life! How awesome! I have to be honest, it has been a little bitter sweet for me though. More so than I ever thought that it would be. I mean we have lived here for 8 years, and we have worked so hard to get it so right and now we are going to sell it to someone else. Counting the cost is something that we have done. It is high, but HE is worthy! What would you let keep you from running after JESUS? Well, we are supposed to sell it all. Also, today I listed the King Kong size bedroom set on Craigs list. Please pray with me that it sells quickly. We are supposed to be getting a quote on tickets within the next few days. Jay gets his bonus next Friday, it would be nice if we sold the bed and possibly had enough money for the plane tickets then! Praise GOD! HE can do it!!! This house is going to turn over quickly. I can't wait to see how HE works it out!. I also packed my first box today. :) I packed a box of year books and the pictures that we wanted to keep. We can't get these back, it is amazing how much stuff we have. And I am not for sure what we are supposed to do with any of it. I just keep hearing the word simplify, so we are going to take a step and get rid of it all! WOW, Please pray for me, as this part has been harder than I thought it would be. :) Pressing forward is important though.
Jay had a talk with Misty and Hunter on Friday. He insisted that Hunter be there. It was good. Hunter has been playing them against each other. He is supposed to be coming over this next weekend though. We are praying about this. We aren't supposed to say anything else about him supposed to be with us or Africa, or him lying about it. LORD, please help us to remember it isn't Hunter we are upset with. This isn't a physical battle. It is a Spiritual one. We are so blessed, thank YOU JESUS for allowing us to see how to pray. How many people don't get to see that. We can't save Hunter, but JESUS can. So we can pray to JESUS to save Hunter!
The LORD showed me a verse yesterday in Ecc. 3, there is a time to keep and a time to throw away. It is time to throw away, clean out, get rid of. Just like the stuff inside me, it is time for a purging. Just like we flush the old stuff in the toilet, we must flush the old stuff out of us! Praise GOD we don't have to keep that stuff in there and become Spiritually constipated! (David Wagner said that). It was funny! :) Till next time.......
