I love when you voice a need for prayers when contemplating a particular endeavor, God just starts clearing the trail. I have mentioned before that a desire Robert and I have is to be able to go onto the missions field. Right now, we are focused on what we can do in-country and to be able to learn as we go. I think it is safe to say that we will be learning until the days that we go home to our Father.
When preparing for such a journey, there are so many things to take into consideration. You just don't pack a suitcase and head out the door for a month on end. Well, I guess some do, but we aren't in a position to do so. We have debt just like the majority of America. So one step in our process is eliminating our debt. It has been our desire for quite some time to sell the house and our belongings and to purchase a travel trailer and go throughout the country wherever our Lord leads us. It's one thing asking for sponsors to contribute to your gas and your groceries. It's another when you are asking for sponsors to pay your house note, your financed obligations, your utilities, etc. I realize that many missionaries do just that and I am in full support of that. However, we don't feel that is the path God is leading us down. Right now we are still in the listening phase and are patiently waiting for God to tell us what He is ready for us to do.
We have someone who is perhaps interested in purchasing our house. Wow! Like I said, when God gets ready, He starts slinging the machete and clears the way. We don't have a massive amount of debt other than our house. Because we have only been in the house for 4 years and it was not the wisest decision in home-buying to begin with, we will be fortunate to break even with the sale. We also have to arrange to purchase a pull behind trailer along with a used vehicle to pull it with. So there is still SO very much to do if God continues to lead us this way. Robert and I were talking about the journey this morning before he laid down. God could lead us to sell everything and do something as simple as lead us to stay at Big 10 for the next year just to test our obedience! Who knows what He has in mind!? But it is still very exciting to see Him lining things up.
I can imagine the thoughts that will run through so many people's minds with the trail that we are on. I am sure that there will be quite a few border bullies (taken from The Dream Giver) who will lovingly try to convince us that this is not the right thing for us to do. We know that those people do so out of love and concern. But Robert and I are dedicated to doing what is asked of us and expected of us, not by others, but by God. So the journey is still on, bullies or not.
Continue to keep us in your prayers. We have so much leg work to do. We have so many decisions to make that will definitely be life changing - not just for us, but our children, as well. But we can only pray that we make the decisions that will do the most important changing - the building of His Kingdom.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot..."
We pray for God to give us wisdom in knowing the right time....
Have an incredibly blessed day today! It is certainly a beautiful one!
