As you read this I encourage you to listen to this song.
The past few weeks have been not what I thought they would be. The Lord has been teaching me hard core about patience and trusting in him 100% with no doubt. His timing is ever so perfect and he does all things well. He said let there be, and there was. I have been laying everything down at his feet trusting and waiting for him to come through. The Lord has been pushing me to wait and has been teaching and training me in a fruit of the Spirit I’m lacking in. Fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Let me be filled with these fruits!
Today as I was enjoying the Lord a song from Phil Wickam called You’re Beautiful was softly playing in the background. The Lord gave me a verse in Hosea, I was looking at a way I never have before.
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.”
A certain word stood out to me; the word was, her. As I read it again that word changed.
“Therefore, behold, I will allure him, and bring him into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to him.
It changed yet again.
“Therefore, behold, I will allure Ryan, and bring Ryan into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to Ryan.”
Jesus wants to take me away in the wilderness and speak tenderly to me. He is molding, shaping, and turning me into the man that he wants me to be before launch. May he continue to do his work.
It has been hard with where I am on fundraising. This past week or so, I have asked myself this one question, “Will I make it?” I love the way Paul puts it in Romans: “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? God is behind us and since he is with us and for us, nothing can stand against us! With this thought, yes I will make it, I just need to keep waiting and trusting in him.
This is where you come in. As of now I am still $2,000 short of my finical deadline to leave with my team in September. I have been praying that the Lord will provide in his perfect timing the finances I need to do his will that he has me on. I also pray that he will continue to turn me into the man he is wanted me to be before I leave. The Lord loves a cheerful giver. I pray that you will give cheerful (and generously too.) Any partnership with me financially helps to get me where the Lord wants me would be such a blessing. All you have to do is click on partner with me on the left. Will you be one these people?
