God Knows EVERYTHING

We have made some huge decisions in our life recently.  We have prayed, we have sought His voice, His will, we have talked about it into the wee hours of the night when we desperately need the sleep, but just can't.  We continue to pray about it and we strive to push on, push forward.  Those that know our hearts and know us well, offer words of advice, encouragement and prayer, oh how we need prayer.  Those that know us, know our desire to live for God and for God alone.  We don't really care what others may say, think or do, we have seen it and been through it all and God has carried us through.  What I have discovered, is that when we believe in a big God, a God who can do anything, a God who loves us so much, a God that has so much mercy and grace bestowed on us when we don't deserve it, we will see God work in the most incredible, miraculous ways. 

We know that God wants us here, in this Ministry.  We have said  "Yes", but we are so scared! We are stepping out in a huge, massive, leap of faith like we have never done before.  This time there is no Plan B.  We are not afraid to go where we believe that God wants us, heck we have moved half way around the world because we knew that He wanted us there.  Even when we 'failed', we learned, we grew, we persevered. So did we really fail? I know that I am richer in so many ways because of every journey we have been on.  When I am tired and am listening to the voices of the world, they tell me different.  They tell me how much we really have 'failed'.  Then I read this beautiful, touching and extremely timely post from Ann Voskamp.

"We are saying yes – to whatever we are breathing after.
What do I breathe after? Some kind of success? Some kind of status? Some kind of Pinterest loveliness?"

"As long as we are breathing – our lives are meant to say Yes to God."

This one hit me most

"You can trust the goodness of God and who He is...... You can say Yes"

You see it has been a real rough year, but one that we again learned so much in.  I did not want to say 'yes'.  In fact I have been begging to be taken out of Ministry.  I can't do this, I can't handle it, it is too hard.  However, every time I sat down and prayed about this I got these verses, these blog posts, oh so many ways God placed it on my heart and on John's heart and we knew we had to say 'yes'.

We are not in Ministry to 'get rich', we are not in this Ministry to get a plaque of recognition or to be famous.  We are not in this Ministry to get our status bar raised in society. We are simply here because God has placed this incredible burden on our hearts and because we care more about 'souls'. 

It has taken me a long time to understand and get that I can trust God and that He really does know my heart, our hearts and that if we are willing to say 'Yes', He is FOR US.  I can say Yes and He will be right there with me, with us.  He really does know Everything!  Keep us in prayer as we continue to say 'Yes'.