The Story God Wrote For Me

Faith is mentioned 234 times in the Bible according to my Bible software program. We have all been told what Faith is and what is should be but that’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking for a personal account of what your faith is to you. Each person has their own faith and nobody can take that faith away not even the devil. So what is YOUR faith? My faith has grown more the past 3 years than in my whole life. Faith is not just a spiritual word anymore to me. Faith is something that is as real to me as my family. Faith is what I long to deepen. I long to have the faith of a mustard seed because with this small amount of faith I can see mountains moved. Hebrew 11:1 says “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith is doing what God tells you to do without seeing the path or seeing any means to get there. When God spoke to me and told me I was going to be going to Niger, Africa for 9 months and leaving on June 17, 2010 I didn’t have the money ...

Happy Birthday to my Daddy! I love you and hope you have a blessed day! Sunday morning, I woke up with the homesick feeling. It comes and goes but it has been awhile since I’ve had it. I just prayed to God and realized I had to keep my eyes on Jesus and reminded myself what my purpose is here in Niger. The feelings passed and I started getting ready for church at Hosanna. During the worship service I was standing up and noticed some movement on my right side. Three children were standing to the right of me (two of them were around 7-8 yrs old and the other one less than 2 yrs). I shook hands with all of them and then reached down to the little girl to see if she would let me hold her. She did and when I picked her up - she just hugged me. It was precious and amazing. I held her during the song service. When it was time to go to Children’s church and I tried to give her to her sister she just hung onto me so she ended up staying with me. She fell asleep hugging me and slept in my lap ...

This past week I’ve been amazingly blessed. The only thing that comes to my mind is the childhood song I use to sing “Trust and obey for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey”. God’s timing is flawless and perfect. I watched Facing the Giants for the very first time recently. I know this movie is a few years old but I believe it was the perfect time in my life for me to watch this movie while here in Niger. It was encouraging. The movie theme was total surrender to God. Once both people totally surrendered to Jesus Christ then look at all the miracles that God performed. God can work miracles when we submit to HIS will. Another movie that I can’t get out of my head is Faith like Potatoes (go ahead and laugh Julie and Holli) this movie encouraged me and made me realize how important it is to press through and have faith when everyone else doubts what will happen or doubts you. Am I crazy to think that God planned for me to watch both of these movies in the tim...

Today has been an amazing day and I have a very blessed couple of days. Things that shouldn’t have worked ended up working out. With God all things are possible  The devil tries to convince us that we can’t do something and to give up. But I’m here to tell you there is nothing impossible when God is on your side. He gives us strength to do what he has called us to do. He gives us power to fight the devil and he gives us peace that the world can’t understand. I serve an AWESOME GOD! Hallelujah! I’m so very blessed to have Jesus as a constant companion, shepherd, friend, and Savior. I’ve learned to look past the present problems and look to the future and up to my victory! If we are following God’s will no matter what the circumstance everything will work out for his glory - we just have to have a mustard seed of faith. Is that hard? Yes at times but we must press through trials and toward the Lord. When unbelievable things happen that don’t make sense just keep looking up to Jesus. W...

The past week has been AWESOME. God has blessed me so much. I have been having a deeper more intense Bible study and have felt his presence so much more the past week. His power is AWESOME! I have been reading Song of Solomon and John. Two totally different books of the Bible but so much of the same meaning. I have tried to read Song of Solomon before but it didn't make sense. This week God has opened my eyes. The way Song of Solomon is written is exactly how my relationship with God has grown and developed. Oh Jesus is my beloved and is whom my soul loves! How precious is it that we have grace, salvation, redemption and love? AMAZING LOVE! I have also checked out a devotional from school called The Utmost for His Highest and my friend sent me a devotional called Streams in the Desert. Sunday I read both of these devotionals like normal but to my surprise they both said the same thing but in different ways. Both of them talked about "Waiting and Watching" but not for the ...

My roommate left to go back home to the US last night. I called my husband when she left to go for early check-in and started crying when I was telling him she was leaving. It is amazing how much I cry here in Africa. When I was back in the US I tried to just be tough all the time and I hated crying. Now I just cry because I know only the Lord sees it and he is the only one who gave give me peace here in this desert. I’m not saying I cry all the time I’m just saying now when I need to cry I just cry and am not so ashamed to cry. Crying shows humility and the need for my Jesus to help me because he catches my tears in his bottle :) Anyways the point of this blog is that after I got home last night I went and just talked to God about how I needed him to help with the upcoming days, to heal me of this malaria, and to help me with my loneliness. While in prayer God just revealed so much to me I just have to write about it. My 9 months in Africa everyone (and myself) always assumed t...