Archive for May, 2007

It’s been a while…

Hey world…sorry we haven’t been posting anything new and exciting in our lives for a while. Things have been and are a little hectic for us as we’re getting ready to move this week and expecting me to go into labor any day now as well. Talk about overwhelmed! Our little apartment is stuffed with boxes and baby stuff everywhere. It’s driving us crazy now and on top of it all, our dog just went into ’season.’ What timing?!!! But at least now we have a solid place to move into this Friday…for a while there we were pursuing purchasing this other house and it turns out that now just isn’t the time for it. It’s actually a relief rather than a disappointment, which is surprising. I just want a good place to bring my babies home to, and we got it thank God and thank our good friends who are renting us a nice little home close to IHOP.  Now I feel like I can go into labor ‘in peace,’ if that’s even possible. :) Anyways, hopefully I’ll become better at updating and posting here. And I should be posting some pictures here soon!

Matthew 6 reality…

I just want to share how amazing living out Matthew 6 is….  At first, letting go of all the things this world and society tells you you need is kinda hard….and learning what is truly a NEED, and what you consider a need, but it’s actually only a want….yeah those things are kinda difficult to realize and let go of, but once the Lord gets you to the place where you’ve let all those things go (and it can take a while) and you’re truly surrendered and relying on Him for all your needs and truly making His Kingdom your primpary concern…..He really does provide all you need (and way more!) and you really don’t have to worry about those things! It’s amazing!! In the scripture (Matthew 6:31-34)  it says “So don’t worry about having enough food or drink or clothing. Why be like the pagans who are so deeply concerend about these things? Your heavenly Father already knows all your needs, and he will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern. So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enought for today.”  I just have to say that the Lord has really done some work in Theo and I and we realized that we cannot recognize who we were a year ago. We were completely different people. We actually trust God now and we’re literally living out this scripture…..our rent is paid for us consistenly….every month, our (nice) clothes is literally given to us regularly, and food is given to us or our groceries are paid for us regularly. That covers all that the scripture says….food, clothes/drink, and even our rent is paid for by the Lord through people, b/c we’re seeking His kingdom FIRST! Our most recent testimony of this is this past week.  Someone brought us to Costco on Thursday and bought us a memebrship(a $50 value), then someone else…totally un-related brought us back to Costco on Saturday and paid for our groceries! Then today, we were called to our friends’ house to pick up tons of more food. About a week ago someone I’ve only met a few times said the Lord told her to bless me with all of these herbs and suppliments to help me through the rest of my pregnancy, labor and delivery! All those things cost alot of money since you have to get them at health food stores and I wasn’t really planning on buying them since I knew they would be so costly. But see! The Lord got them for me anyways! Also, within the last 2 weeks, I’ve had 3 different people tell me that they’ve got all these nice maternity clothes for me. I literally haven’t paid for a single item of maternity clothing at all… and I’ll be having my babies within this next month! Thats a whole 10 months of the Lord providing all I need for my whole pregnancy and I haven’t had to pay a penny! Within the last month or 2, Theo has gotten a new jacket, a couple new shirts, 3 new belts,  and a bunch more from a particularly stylish friend of ours who just passes it on to us! What a blessing! Besides the actual food, clothes and rent that is taken care of by the Lord, we also are blessed with amazing people in our lives who support us financially, which really helps us to keep doing what we’re doing as full time missionaries and making the Kingdom of God our primary concern!!! (Specifically one couple in FL that are just an example to us of generosity and love!) I’m just writing all of this to encourage anyone who is considering following Jesus with their whole heart….know that He’s faithful and He WILL take good care of you and for those of you who already say you know Jesus, you can always go deeper with Him. Give Him all you’ve got and watch what He does in return.  You won’t regret it. Put down the pride of feeling the need to spend money unnecissarily and ‘buying your own stuff’ and just trust Him. Lean on Him and let Him truly take care of you. (You’re going to really need that one of these days anyways) But above all, love God. Learn to love Him with everything inside of you. Read up on how much He loves you (since He chose you, you didn’t choose Him), and let yourself fall in love with Him.  Ok, enough of me trying to get everyone in the world to fall in love with God.  Just try Him out for yourself!

4 weeks to go…

Ok, so we’ve got about 4 weeks left before our babies are born and before we have to be out of this apartment and the Lord still hasn’t revealed where we’re supposed to move yet….and we’re still only seeing 1 baby. Wow. Could life get any more interesting at this point?…(I bet it could, so I won’t go there!) If any of you out there have connections with heaven, please pray for us as we have so many things “up in the air” still and we’d love some answers.  :)   God is so faithful and gives good gifts to His children so we’re not worried,  we’re just trying to “Be patient and wait for the Lord to act…” as it says in the Psalms. We have SO many testimonies on how waiting on Him is the way to go and He’s never ever failed us. It’s so encouraging to think back on His faithfulness and goodness….it’s whats helping me be calm and relaxed in this time where our enemy  wants to make me a basket case….but I refuse to worry! I refuse to let the enemy make me crazy and scared and frantic…..instead I will trust my faithful Father who always provides what I need. I’ll be sure to post the testimony of when the Lord provides our home and a safe and happy delivery of our babies.