getting closer…

Well, I’ve been delayed a little bit, but I am still on my way.  It looks like I will be able to move to France in mid-November.  I still have a long way to go in my support raising so, of course, I can still really use your prayers! 

God is (as usual) teaching me something.  I have been given a deadline to raise my support of the end of October.  This scares me just a bit because I still have a lot to raise and it’s been a hard road so far.  Every once in a while I am overwhelmed by fear and doubt and really wondering if it will happen… but here is the good news:  GOD IS IN CONTROL! 

Yesterday I read a passage in Numbers 23 and it said, “does He speak and then not act?  does He promise and then not fulfill?”  God is so faithful.  God has called me to go and work in France and God has promised to give me a ministry in France.  He keeps His promises.  He is faithful!  Sometimes the storm is still raging around me and the enemy is still trying to poke his way into my thoughts but God is in control.  God calms the storm and His voice overpowers the voice of the enemy. 

God has a purpose for me in France and I am so excited to get there and do all that He wants me to do.  I know it will happen soon.  Thank you for your prayers and support and for believing with me in the promises of God.

Please be praying…

Friends, I really need your prayers.  I don’t know that I am completely discouraged, but I think I am at a bit of a loss.  I have been working hard to raise the support needed to get to France and it’s just a really hard time right now.  I’m not quite sure what to do or where to go.  We all know that economic times are hard and in spite of that I have seen God doing some amazing things.  I have really seen people and churches step out in faith and God is blessing. 

Right now I feel like God is constantly challenging me to believe for miracles.  Sometimes I don’t even know really what that entails, but I am doing my best to have faith.  I am trying to ask Him for big things and believe that it’s no task for Him to answer my prayers.  Yesterday, the Lord reminded me that I have no reason to worry; He says if I give my worries to Him with praise, His peace will guard my heart and my mind.  I am relying on that.  We need to pray God’s promises and if He promises to answer our prayers and provide and bring peace, then I believe Him. 

Can you please be praying.  I need encouragement, and I really need to raise the money to get to France.  God is also speaking to me about trusting His timing.  Maybe it’s not what I had planned, but He has a perfect plan.  Please agree with me that He is going to work it all out in His time and in His way. 

Thanks!