Praise God!!! God has provided $6,068 thus far! That leaves us to raise $5,832 more in 5 months in order for me to be fully funded ($11,900) for Immersion (9 month mission trip).
I am beyond thankful and blown away by God's faithfulness! It has been such a rich and fulfilling few weeks. Though it seems as if I have nothing, I have everything because I have Jesus. I know that seems so cliche but God has been showing me how only He satisfies…not money, not coffee, not social media, or people. He alone satisfies. He alone is enough. I have been praying for a faith like that of Paul, Barnabus, Stephen, Peter and the first apostles. I have been praying to truly believe in Jesus. I didn't realize how bold of a prayer that was until I walked through difficulty last week. I realized I only had $27 to my name, little money at the time for my trip, and all my friends were on spring break leaving me quite lonesome. However, it was a time that God wanted just for me and Him. He wanted to show me that the same, miraculous, powerful Jesus that lived back in the "bible days" is the same miraculous, powerful Jesus that lives today. More than that…this same Jesus lives in me! Yeah, yeah we here that stuff all the time in church right. However, I do not think that we actually believe it. You see, if we truly believed in Jesus then what we would preach would be more than words and more than a sermon…it would be lived out as a lifestyle. God miraculously put $20 in my pocket on Friday, $100 came in mail, $100 shows up in my bible, and God gives my Pa $500. Most people even church goers would probably say " ah, just a coincidence..you probably misplaced it or someone just put it there, or you're just lucky." No, my God is supernatural and I believe He did it. Call me crazy….heck you might as well call God crazy then because do you believe that He truly used Moses to actually part the red sea..like an entire ocean…halfed…People healed by one touch, taken up to heaven without dying, raised to life. I wonder if we truly believe it considering we are so quick to deny it happening these days. We do not want to believe it. It's not about you or me!! God gets all the credit. Even I myself tried to convince myself that the $20 must have gotten there some other way than God. Then God simply whispered in my ear…"just receive what I am giving you!" My God doesn't play…He is not weak. He is able. He is faithful. He is near. He is good. He is gracious. He is strong and mighty. He is a big boy!! He is LOVE! He is just because! He loves…just because! He loves for no other reason then that He just loves! My God is real! My God is just as alive and active now as He was with Paul. I was encouraged one day by a text saying "The same Jesus is in you that was in Moses and Paul." Such truth!! I desire to step aside and let Jesus love me more intimately and more deeply so that I can love you and even my enemies and those who have hurt me more intimately and more deeply. I desire to continually surrender my complex mind so that i may have a faith like a child to believe in ALL of Jesus and receive more and more of His love!
Seek first His Kingdom and all these things will be added unto you.
He supplies ALL my needs.
I am more valuable than birds…how much more will he give me and take care of me?
God is faithful..what he promises He will do!
Ask and it will be given you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened.
Look to Jesus.
More of Jesus, less of me.
I choose to believe. I choose to let go and surrender. I choose JESUS.
