Accepted!

We got the long awaited e-mail that Jeremiah has been accepted to Bible College in Peru. YIPEE, Praise the Lord! I am so thankful that she e-mailed us this week instead of having to wait another week and a half. Now we just have to get our house sold in enough time to leave at the end of January.

Another praise is that our bill for the innoculations came in last week and we only have to pay the $20 co-pay for each of us. This is a huge savings considering the total cost was almost $1,000. Hopefully we can get in sometime next week to receive our next round of shots.

Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to see your hand moving in regards to our stepping out in faith. We trust you are at work and if we are supposed to go to Peru in February, you will see to it that we are able to go. Lord, I pray you would bring someone along that wants to buy our house before we decide to list it. Father, I also want to pray for our health as we go and get our second round of vaccinations. I pray you would keep us healthy and strong. I also want to lift up our garage sale we are having this Saturday, I pray you would keep the rain away and that we would have a good turn out. Most of all Lord I pray that Jeremiah & I would love you and others with all our heart, soul, and mind. Your will be done. In Jesus' name, Amen!

Stuff & Bible college

Well, we are planning a garage sale for this weekend. I have been rummaging through all of my stuff and decided to sell most of my stuff being stored in the attic and in the extra bedrooms. It makes for a pretty nice sale. B.J. Parry will be coming over some time this week to help us price the items because we have no idea what people would be willing to give for certain items. I think it will be such a relief to get that stuff out of the house. I am praying for nice weather this Saturday. I plan on cleaning up the house really well so that if someone is interested in looking at our house they can come in and check it out.

Yesterday we received an e-mail from Candy at the Bible College. She said she just gave the applications to the English Admissions Director and we should expect to have an answer from her this week. If not, then we will definitely hear something in two weeks because the whole college is leaving on different missions trips across Peru and Ecuador next week. I was so excited to finally hear something from them and now we can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. I hope to be much more patient from here on out and rest in the fact that the Lord is in control and everything will take place exactly the way he has planned it. Praise the Lord for all that has taken place already and that he knows where he is leading us!

Lord, help me to have faith and patience as you guide and direct us to your perfect will for our lives! Help me to live for each day and be thankful for what he is showing me each day. Thank you for a loving husband who wants to serve you however you desire. Thank you for all the things you have given us; good jobs, a nice home, nice vehicles, nice things, loving friends and family! We are so blessed! In Jesus' Name, Amen!

Great vs. Greater

I am just praising God right now for his love & mercy. I just have this yearning to serve him no matter the cost.

Yesterday, Jeremiah had an interview with Nucor. He was unable to make the first interview because he was so sick from the shots he had a couple of weeks ago. He felt like Nucor was such a great opportunity that he felt he needed to make sure God didn't want him to take the job. He was so torn about making the right decision for our future and for the Lord.

He went to the interview and it turns out the guy who would be his supervisor is a Christian & the other two guys he would be working with are strong Christians. The supervisor (John) started out with the typical questions "What person & event in your life has had the greatest impact on you?" So Jeremiah tells him Jesus Christ & becoming saved have had the greatest impact on him. He proceeds to tell John his testimony and John opens up to Jeremiah about how sometimes he accidentally curses on the job, etc. They get near the end of the interview and John says he has interviewed 8 people and Jeremiah is his number 1 candidate. So Jeremiah tells him he has to be honest with him that we are planning on going to Bible College in Peru but Nucor is such a great opportunity that he would be praying about making the right decision. Then John thanks him for being honest but says he has to be honest with him and he is still his number 1 candidate and would be recommending him. But John also let Jeremiah know that he would be fine if he decides not to take the position......in other words he needs to follow what the Lord is showing him to do.

Jeremiah said he left the interview with peace. He thought it was going to be a black & white decision. A bad decision vs. a good decision but the Lord showed him that it is a good decision vs a better decision. It is great vs greater, just like Haggai 2:9 spoke to us from the beginning. It is God's will vs. God's perfect will. The Lord also showed him his motives are pure for wanting to go to Peru. No matter how much Satan has tried to lie to him and tell him he had selfish reasons for wanting to go to Peru, the Lord showed him he wants to go to become closer to the Lord and to seek out God's perfect will for our lives.

I am so proud and thankful that God has blessed me with a husband who wants to seek the Lord and His will for our lives no matter the "cost".

Meanwhile, I was at my Daniel study being totally blown away by Beth Moore's message. She spoke on sacrifice vs. selfishness. She said that the Enemy wants to tempt us to not be a daily living sacrifice so that we will miss God's calling on our lives. She said if whatever God is asking us to do doesn't "cost" us something then how will it ever seem priceless to us? It was probably the best message I have ever heard in my life. Praise the Lord!

The Lord really used that to confirm once again that Jeremiah is making the right decision by not taking the job at Nucor. I think it is such a miracle of God that we are both in sync with this decision. Last spring, I was so consumed by thinking that the answer to life's problems would be for Jeremiah to get a better job so I could stay at home and raise babies. I still have a strong desire to have children but my desire to follow the Lord and His desires for our lives is stronger. Thank you Lord for working in our lives so visibly, it is only by the changing power of your Holy Spirit that we can become more like you.

Lord, I thank you how you guide & direct us each day! I pray I would not allow distractions in my life to drown out your voice, even in the small things of life, that I would seek you in everything! I pray you would honor our decision to go to Peru, that regardless of whether or not we go to Peru that you would show us the perfect way in which Jeremiah & I can serve you as one. Lord, I also pray for peace in waiting for your answer on whether or not you want us to go to Peru! In Jesus' name, Amen!