the front of our church has glass!!! the front of the building that was knocked out by a truck got put back together last wednesday, so we continue the work. ben has been there every day with the help of a couple of guys when they can make it, muddin and sanding and sanding and mudding...if only we could be in by the end of the month, but we may be pushin it, we're trying but lots of work still to do.
i will admit its tempting to look at ministers around us who look like they have the favor of God pouring out on them in every area of their life and here we sit in seemingly "destitute" circumstances. i don't really get it all except knowing what God spoke what we're doing here, and everything else i just throw into his lap and trust him with it and keep walking forward. i DO know that he is my hope, my song, my strength, my passion, my joy, my compassion and best friend...this is what faith is...we're living it and as he promised we are not without food or shelter, so we rejoice in his love.
8 years ago
Your rewards will be many for the walk you are taking. Praying for you, Ben and the boys as you wait upon the lord. love nadine
ReplyDeleteAngelia -
ReplyDeleteAs I read your blog, I thought of this devotional I read this last week from Oswald Chambers.
"God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In the light of the glory of the vision we go forth to do things, but the vision is not real in us yet; and God has to take us into the valley, and put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the place where He can trust us with the veritable reality. Ever since we had the vision God has been at work, getting us into the shape of the ideal, and over and over again we escape from His hand and try to batter ourselves into our own shape.
The vision is not a castle in the air, but a vision of what God wants you to be. Let Him put you on His wheel and whirl you as He likes, and as sure as God is God and you are you, you will turn out exactly in accordance with the vision. Don't lose heart in the process. If you have ever had the vision of God, you may try as you like to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never let you."
Keep trusting, knowing that the vision God gave you and Ben was not by mistake... and will be greater than anything you can ever imagine!