He is Able

Roca Fuerte April 2013

God is Able

I know in my heart that God is Able, but I have to humbly admit that I do not always live my life that way.  This Resurrection Sunday morning, God reminded me of just how powerful, omniscient and loving He is.  He is Able!!!  He has given me strength and power to overcome and as one of the songs I was shouting out this morning says “The same power that conquered the grave lives in me”.  Wow, stop for a moment and think about that………

Thank you all for the prayers, I know they are helping to give me peace and patience.  I was blessed to have three days off this weekend and much of my time was spent in prayer and in God’s word.  I feel refreshed and renewed, now I just need to stay more in prayer and God’s word so please continue to pray for this.
 I also had the amazing opportunity to attend The Secret Church simulcast on Friday night hosted by David Platt this was an extremely intense 6+ hour bible study and time of worship.  If you have never been to one of these check it out it: www.radical.net.  I still have a ton to digest from that night, but already God is using what was taught to continue to challenge me.  The goal of Secret Church is to know His word and to know His persecuted, that is one of my ongoing personal goals to know both of these more. 

David Platt (speaking from God’s word) gave a challenge to live more urgently and with a heartbreaking compassion for the lost.  So, here is where I need some more prayer because I don’t know what God’s plan is for me in regards to this.  I believe that I am called to full time Missions, I believe that call is only from God.  I know I am not ready yet and that is one of the main reasons for this blog to build my prayer support to prepare me for what lays ahead.  So, how do I balance God telling me to wait and His word that tells us to live urgently.  James 4: ¹³ Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— ¹⁴ yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. 

As I spent a day in prayer this past Good Friday (yes it is good) I started looking at missions opportunities online.  I keep saying to myself not to try and make things happen, but for those that know what a planner I am I had to at least look.  After a period of looking online and some opportunities to pray about I randomly opened one of many devotional books on my shelf and this was the first thing I read “Stop trying to work things out before their times have come……..”.  I had to laugh, love that God has a sense of humor. 

So, I continue to wait and pray and try like crazy to not make things happen.  I know God has much greater plans than I could even begin to imagine and He will reveal them to me in His timing. 

Please also pray for all the missionaries out there and for their supporters back home along with praying for more obedient servants to step forward and accept God’s call to missions.  Matthew 9: ³⁷ Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; ³⁸ therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

May God Bless all of You and on this Resurrection Sunday remember tetelestai, it is finished!!

Be Bold in Sharing The Good News

I know this update is coming out a little late, I have had some technology issues. 

First of all I want you all to know I have been praying for you. 

In the last week or two I have been shown a few opportunities to promote global missions locally and also to go on a short term mission trip.  I am praying, so far do not know where God is leading me.  There is also a specific country (fairly closed to visitors, so will not be named) that God has had on my heart for several years and continues to place on my heart.  If this is where He wants to use me, pray He will provide opportunity.  Please join me in praying for wisdom and guidance. 

I am trying to embrace a lifestyle of expectancy, believing and living for God all of the time.  That is so hard in our culture, but my prayer is that I would be more bold in my faith allowing God to use me more.  As I have been praying about full time missions and where God is leading me, I have been challenged to share the gospel more here at home with those around me.  I have been praying for God to give me the opportunities and the words to share. 

I have had some personal struggles lately, I know that I have Hope and I am striving to rest in that.  We are studying Paul’s letters to the church in our New Testament class and his encouragement and prayers for the churches have been like prayers for me as I read them.  Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.  Please pray for myself and my family, we are still grieving greatly the loss of my mother.  My Mom always made a huge deal about celebrations and my Dad just had his first birthday in 56 years without her there.  My birthday is coming up in April as is her birthday so this will be a rough couple of months, BUT GOD has it all under control and I know that. 

Thanks for the prayers, let me know of any specific prayer requests I can be lifting up for you.