Saturday, March 21, 2009

I will answer them before they even call to me. While they are still talking about their needs, I will go ahead and answer their prayers!
Isaiah 65:24

Have you ever had one of those months when things just don't look like they will ever get done?
You work and work and there is just more to do and purchase than what your body and checking account can handle? Well I have been struggling with a few things lately, until I got to the point that I realized "what the heck am I doing?" Has God not provided all our needs in the past? Just because I cannot see Him, doesn't mean He is not working, and once again I laid it in the hands of my kind, gentle and ever present maker, and He being the gentleman he always is, He gladly took it.
You see, when Todd and I started this house project, we wanted it and the building of it to Glorify God, we have tried to be obediant in trusting him to provide the funds to continue on. It is a battle that we fight continually, to just trust him, but through it all we have learned that He is more than happy to bless us if we just rest in Him, if we seek His face and not allow satan to steel our joy and destroy all that is good.
In the times that we just didn't know how something would work or where the funds would come from it has been awesome to see Him work it out.
God has used this House Project in so many ways, to teach us about how we can trust Him, even if things didn't come together as we had it planned, He has had better plan. When we were about to quit and give up, He inspired us through our daughters to keep pressing on, because when they were young we would not allow them to quit something they started. We would encourage them to keep pressing on. That God would provide them the strength to continue on to completion.
We are now on the home stretch of this project and God has brought us so far in our relationship with Him and each other that we just praise Him for the opportunity to have gone through it.
So if you are about to start a project- my first words of advice are...
"Consult you Maker"

2 comments:

the lady of the house said...

Well I'm definately at the beginning of a "project" and man am I thankful I have him on my side! Thank you too for all your encouragement and I know all the dreams of us all being together at home in our finished beautiful home are soon to come true! How exciting!! & Thank You Jesus!

Brian and Jodi Brown said...

Hi mom, your house is so beautiful. You guys are doing a great job. Love you...