We are near to saying goodbye to our current home and will be making the big move this week. There are still some finishing touches to be put on the home, but overall we are so thankful for how He has provided. This building is much stronger and more secure than the current one, more rooms and washrooms to meet our needs, built as a hostel but we have been able to make improvements with the owners’ approval so that it will feel more like home for us. I will have to post updated pictures as we move in. The ugly green rooms are now bright blue (my favorite colour-mira mas parsand, Hindi men), light pink, tan, and upstairs purple (Debies’ mas parsand).
We have had more frequent and longer power outages the past 2 weeks, so we are so looking forward to having the generator soon in the new house! Thank you so much; if you could imagine how cold it does get at night in these houses with only space heaters to warm us, we really need the power to run them, so that we can all stay warm and healthy. He has been providing and we know He will continue to; thank you for being a part of that.
I wanted to post an update just to share with you before we move a small piece of the Truth He is teaching me every day here. I have been challenged, as I said before, to believe His timing and calling me for this work since I left. There are many reasons for the combination of fear, doubt and inadequacy I have felt; and I believe the enemy has been trying to deceive me since I arrived. Over the past several weeks I have been thinking of Mark 8:33 over and over “Get behind Me, Satan; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s;” the past couple days I found this passage scribbled on a sticky note I’ve had it on since I was in nursing school. I looked it up and read this passage this morning from verse 27 to the end of the chapter in verse 38. As I read it I was reminded again of how Jesus’ own followers and closest friends on Earth, had seen many signs and wonders first-hand, and still doubted that He knew what was best and would provide it. I recalled that I have known and recognized multiple “signs” of His leading me here (from the moment I first believed until now). The problem is that I still doubt and see the picture from my human perspective.
In today’s study with Beth Moore in the “I’m Believing God” devotional I have been going through with my hosts, we dug deeper into the history of Joshua’s walk with God (as reflected from Hebrews 11:30). We were challenged to see how God made it clear, one step at a time, that the victory was God’s, long before he saw the locked city of Jericho and heard God’s promise: “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands.” At the close of our study, Beth Moore’s challenge to us was to see what God was showing us about our own Jericho. I could certainly hear Him saying to me, “See, Child? Would you please see this the way I do? No, not through your eyes. Through the eyes of faith!” I cannot always see the physical results of my presence here, but I know the work He is doing in my heart and mind will change me forever. Pray with me that all of us would come to believe Him more, delighting in Him and giving Thanks for His provision beyond what we can even comprehend, that we might become that sweet aroma and reflect Him in a world of darkness that is desperate for His light.
I really needed to hear that! Facing my own set of "Jericho's" these days, but this reminder of looking at things through the eyes of faith helps. Thanks for sharing. We are excited with you as you prepare to move.
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