Jehovah Jireh

Our Provider...

wow. Here we are, some 7 months after joining staff and having our world flipped upside down. Hearing the call to Denver, Colorado to work with Latino college students was a distant dream back in July. Now, the day it becomes a reality is rapidly approaching. We began praying last week to be finished with our initial support raising process by Friday (yes, tomorrow). We sensed God drawing us toward a date that we would pray for His provision to be accomplished by, and that day was tomorrow. The Lord has been our truth this week, communicating and affirming His promises to us despite our drastically inconsistent emotions. He continues to press into us His steadfast love and faithfulness, as He "binds it around our necks, writing them on the tablets of our hearts." He will provide. We can see the finish line. Only 3-4 percent left to raise, and we will be calling U-Haul hoping for the cheapest rate for a cross-country haul. ;)

We are so thankful that the Lord has been building this house (both of spiritual and financial depth). He will not allow for us to work in vain as long as He is holding the hammer. Our foundation is the Rock, Jesus. Praise Him for being the cornerstone that we will always look to and find our stability.

Let me speak some of the words of our Rock over you, as He has done for me over the past few days...

"When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then they said among the nations,
"The LORD has done great things for them."
The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad! " [ psalm 126:1-3]

"Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain..." [ Psalm 127:1]

and the verses that He constantly brings me back to,

"Thus says the LORD,
Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength,
whose heart turns away from the LORD.
He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.
He is like a stream planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit....

The heart is decietful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
' I, the Lord, search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.' "  [jeremiah 17: 5-8]


Our hearts will fail us, giving way to not trusting in the Rock as the provider, but the Lord is the strength of our heart and our portion forever. I am so thankful to be journeying with Jesus in this, and with my sweet husband. We pray that God will continue to teach us as he has in this process. We know He will.

Pray for us over the next few days as we trust God to raise the last bit of support and then head to Denver to see what He has prepared.

A&K