Sendusout

If you have been keeping up with our journal entries, you will know that we decided to sell our house before we move to the Philippines and have been working on finishing projects around the house for the past month. We completed the fence around our backyard, landscaped, finished painting our kitchen cabinets (A BIG job that we started almost a year ago), painted the kitchen blue, painted Ian’s room yellow, had the carpets cleaned, washed all the windows inside and out and have been Spring cleaning (long overdue). Nothing like putting your house on the market to motivate you to do all the things you’ve always wanted to do. The sign went up last Tuesday and we have shown it a couple of times. You can check it out on our realator’s website. People keep asking what we’ll do if we sell it before we leave Nampa. If we need to, we will just rent an apartment short term, preferably one with a swimming pool! If we’re lucky, we’ll close a few days before. Whatever the case, we are totally at peace. I know in whom I have believed, He is good, He holds us in His hands and He has worked out all the details. I am confidant He has called us and trust that He would not call us without His provision in line. So we pray, we ask, and we wait.

I have also been reading a book by Rolland and Heidi Baker called Always Enough. They are missionaries who are currently working in Mozambique. I have been struck by their passion for the things of God, their compl! ete faith in God’s ability to provide, their willingness to r! each out to the neediest people based in that trust and God’s faithfullness to pour out His blessings upon them. They are seeing God’s glory fall in one of the poorest nations on earth and He is sending revival to a land that was broken by years of war, drought, and famine. How I long to know God in that way. To be at the center of His will, to know Him intimately and hear His voice. To do the will of the Father and see His kingdom come. I have come to know so much of His goodness and mercy and love, how I long for more. At times I think somehow I have to muster up the passion or fire or strength to see the fruit. That somehow I can make myself more fruitful, but God has been reminding me that it is ALL about HIM, and not about me. My job is to abide in Him, trust in Him and know that He has good works already prepared for me and if I seek Him and will find Him and all the other stuff will be a bonus. Yet, I do believe we have a part. The seeking is no little thing. W! hat am I willing to do to seek Him? How deep do I really want to go? What will I sacrifice? My pride, my fear, my “to do” list. Do I really believe He has enough. I think so, may God increase my faith.