Ummmmmmm, I really don’t even know how to being this post except to say OUR GOD ROCKS!!!!!
So, most of you know that God’s been really working on my heart lately to give up my obsession with earthly posessions and follow His Kingdom completely! I had sold some of my things that I wasn’t really attached to before we went to camp and while we were there I had a great conversation with Matt and he quoted scripture about selling all your possesions…then that night I was reading my bible and came across that exact scripture!!! I knew right then that God was calling me to let go of the tight hold I had on all my stuff and put all that energy and desire into Him. So, this was my great epiphany at camp, but when I got home I was like ‘I really like this and this and this, I can keep some of it.’ As I was driving down the road God smacked me upside the head with (and I’m paraphrasing) ‘don’t store up your treasures on Earth where they will rust, tarnish and be eaten by moths, store up your treasures in Heaven.’ I broke into joyful tears (something I’ve been doing too much lately, seriously disturbing for me to cry this much!). Right then I went to the coffee shop, got online and put up a post and emails to everyone I know informing them that I would be selling all my stuff that weekend (a mere 5 days from this realization).
I know this sounds a lot like what a bunch of us are doing right now…getting rid of all the stuff in our lives that is meaningless, but wait, there’s more!
Let’s back up a little bit to my 3 minute testimony from camp. If you didn’t hear it, my prayers were answered (while we were there) that my house had been rented after being on the market for 4 months. Since I resigned from my job at Baylor, money hasn’t been coming in as frequently and I had gotten behind on my mortgage for the month of October and there was no way that I was making the payment for November either! I was praying hardcore for God to do something, but I didn’t know what He could do because my mortgage is high for one month and ridiculous for two months!
Fast forward back to yesterday…So, I wake up for my big sale. I was a little nervous but made myself busy by organizing and pricing everything until people started showing up. Team JSL was praying for God to do huge things and I was praying for a miracle…wow!!! At 2:45 one of my former athletes and her boyfriend showed up…he had just bought a new house and needed to furnish the entire thing!!! My sale technically started at 3:00 and by 3:01 I had made $2100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy crap!!!!! God showed up!!! For about 10 minutes my nerves were completely shot…my legs were shaking and I literally had to sit down so I wouldn’t collapse…I absolutely couldn’t believe what God was doing!!! Within 2 hours I sold enough stuff to pay both my mortgage payments AND the leasing fee required by the company handling my house…THE EXACT AMOUNT!!!! I’ve always heard these stories about God providing a specific amount of money for needs, but I never EVER thought He would do that in my life. I always thought it was such a cool testimony and even joked to myself how fun it would be if God ever did that for me…well, He did! I can’t get over it! That was my last HUGE stressor to let go of!!!
I know this is super long, but I just wanted to share this amazing thing with all of you to say that God is more than capable to do more than all we can ask or imagine! Ephesians 3:20 has never been more real to me than right now!
God keeps rocking my world in the most incredible ways and I pray that each of you can feel this joy and freedom that I’m feeling right now…it is the most (insert any descriptive word here) feeling ever!!! God rocks, ya’ll rock…love ya’ll and seriously can’t wait til January!!!! Bringing the kingdom all over the world!!!
