Home update, vaccinations, etc.

Well, we still have not had anyone come look at our house except for those two families right at first. One of them ending up buying a house in our neighborhood.......too bad it wasn't our:( The only people that have called about it, want to know if we will sell it on contract/rent-to-own. We are not interested in doing that. Everyone is saying how bad the housing market is, it is even all over the news. The Feds dropped interest rates by half a point last week and there is talk of another drop so maybe that will help the market a little. We are praying about whether or not we should list our home with a realtor, so we may be doing that in a few weeks if we don't get any serious prospects in the meantime. Regardless, I have to keep reminding myself that if the Lord wants us to go to Peru, then it is NOT a hard thing for him to sell our house despite the slow market. Thank God He is in control!

Well, Jeremiah called me at work on Monday and said that Nucor called him for an interview. Just after we made the decision to go to Peru, he said he was sure they would call before we left. It is so luring in the financial aspect but we both agree that it does not fall in line with the life we feel God is calling us to live. Just thinking about what Nucor would mean for us, we both get caught up in the money aspect of it all, so I can't imagine what we would be like in a couple of years if he took the job. It is funny because a week before Nucor called, we were driving by Nucor and I said, "Man, I am glad you don't work there."

On Wednesday, Jer and I had a doctor's appointment with Dr. Douglas to get our immunizations to go to Peru. Jeremiah has to get a few more than me since he has never been vaccinated. We prayed just before we received the injections that we would not have any adverse reactions to the chemicals being injected into our bodies. The tetanus shot was kind of painful, other than that all was well. Then the following morning when Jeremiah woke up he walked into the dining room and said he was sick and had to lay on the floor. We noticed the site of one of the injections was swollen to a size a little bit larger than a golf ball. I called the nurse and she said he was having a reaction to the pills and that he needed rest, tylenol, and clear fluids. We did all of those things and prayed for his body. When I came home that evening I took his temperature and it went from 99.6 to 102 in like an hour. He was not feeling well. The tylenol helped to decrease the fever. In the middle of the night, that night (last night) he was talking in his sleep and I heard him say John 5:3-10, for some reason I knew I had to remember that and kept saying it over and over in my head and prayed God would help me remember until morning (since I was too lazy to get up and write it down or look it up). First thing in the morning I went straight to the bible and looked it up, this is what it said: 3Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.[b] 5One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
7"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
8Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." 9At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat." Wow! I just think that is the coolest thing! I love when things like this happen because it just reminds me how real God truly is.

Thank you Lord for the ways that you reveal yourself to me. I pray you would help me to realize the depths of your love each day I walk with you and how you want to heal us all, whether its physically, emotionally, or spiritually. I just need to have the faith to believe you have healed me then "Get up, pick up the cross, & walk". Thank you Lord for helping me to remember the scriptures Jeremiah murmured in his sleep and thank you for comforting him in his sickness as he sleeps. In Jesus name, Amen!

Learning to Trust in the Lord!

Well, it has been over a month now since we decided to step out in faith to pursue enrollment at the bible college in Peru. Our home has been for sale for a month. Things have been pretty quiet, I am trying to be patient in waiting for God's answer and having faith that no matter what all is in His hands. I have to admit, what I fear most is the possibility of us stepping out and nothing happening.....and then feeling foolish! I was thinking about this though and the Lord reassured me that it is better to step out and look foolish than to be disobedient and not look foolish. How will we ever know if God wants us to go to Peru or not unless we step out? Sometimes the only way that Paul knew where he was supposed to be, by knowing where he wasn't supposed to be.

My patience has been wearing thin with the lack of prospects for our home. Jeremiah is very good at redirecting my focus back on the Lord when I lack faith that our home will sell if we are supposed to go. I am praying daily for the quick sale of our home, and for patience in the meantime.

I have been having some really great times with the Lord and have been so blessed. Through all of the waiting and wondering God has really shown me how much I need Him, even in the small things. Even if we don't go to Peru, I am so thankful for this time spent with the Lord as He increases my faith and trust in Him.

Lord, thank you for how you comfort me daily with your peace, hope, and joy! I pray you would continue to humble me and keep me in a place of continual reliance on You, for ALL things! I pray I would be like an infant, who relies on its parents for all of its needs and trusts that they will provide. Lord, continue to bring Jeremiah & I closer as a couple and bless our marriage. I pray you would show me daily how to submit to my husband in a godly manner. Prepare us for whatever ministry you have for us. Place the desires in our hearts for the things you would have us do! Fill us with your Holy Spirit! Also, I pray for peace and faith in waiting for you to answer on whether we are to go to Peru or not, on selling our home and being accepted to the bible college. Father, let your will be done! In Jesus' name, Amen!