Comfort

So I was reading through my facebook quotes and came across this one

“God doesn’t call the equipped, God equips the called”

It doesn’t matter what I can do, or what I’ve done.  All that matters is that I have an open heart, clear mind, and a willing body, and God will supply everything else.  I find comfort in that.  Knowing that with these medical clinics that I will be doing this summer, it doesn’t matter what I do or don’t know.  All that matters is that I am willing to be used in the way God desires.

Didn’t think I’d be having those deeps thoughts at 8 in the morning

SMG

God is DEFINITELY in Control

So I have 97 days left until I leave for Haiti and God keeps showing His goodness more and more each step of the way.

In "Jesus Calling" by Sarah Young this is what today's devotion said...

Be still in the Light of My Presence, while I communicate Love to you.  There is no force in the universe as powerful as My Love.  You are constantly aware of limitations: your own and others'.  But there is no limit to My Love; it fills all of space, time, and eternity.

Now you see through a glass, darkly, but someday you will see Me face to Face.  Then you will be able to experience fully how wide and long and high and deep is My Love for you.  If you were to experience that now, you would be overwhelmed to the point of feeling crushed.  But you have an eternity ahead of you, absolutely guaranteed, during which you can enjoy My Presence in unrestricted ecstasy.  For now, the knowledge of My loving Presence is sufficient to carry you through each day.

What an awesome devotion today.  It spoke directly to me.  God is communicating His love to me so frequently lately.  He keeps reminding me how much He loves me and how He has everything under control and it’s ALL in His hands!

Last night at Bible Study we talked about how God’s funds are limitless.  He is able to supply all of our financial needs, as long as we trust Him and put our anxiety in His hands.  That is what I keep learning with each trip I take to Haiti.  This trip is more expensive then my past two, so I have to put even more trust in Him, but He is fulfilling it in mighty ways!

I still don’t know exactly what God has in store for me.  I know He’s called me to be a nurse (I got my acceptance letter into LMU’s BSN program last week!!) and I know He’s given me a passion for Haiti for a reason.  I just don’t know exactly what He’s going to do, but I’m open and willing to listen and ready to act!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This morning I received a facebook message from someone that I hold near and dear to my heart, but someone I don’t know all that well.  She was asking me where she could send money to for my trip to Haiti this summer.  WOW!!  I was so humbled by her generosity to me.  It definitely got my day started off the right way.

And then at lunch I had Chinese food and got a fortune cookie.  My fortune cookie was …

Bam! That woman that I hold near and dear to my heart has dark hair!  Crazy how I got that facebook message this morning and got that fortune this afternoon!  Love it!!

SMG

Isn't God Good?!

I’ve been advertising to my friends on facebook that I am doing photoshoots these next couple of months to raise money for my trip.  I have several already booked and ready to go and many that have told me they want photoshoots; we just haven’t got the specifics worked out yet.  In fact I have 4 shoots set up for this week alone!

Anyways, I have photographed one of my youth girls at church several times.  Once for her 8^th grade formal, once with her then boyfriend (yea those crazy high school romances that don’t last), and once with her and another one of my youth girls.  Well I’ve never charged her for these, but her grandmother came up to be today and said that she wanted to pay me for those shoots to help me on my trip.

Isn’t God good?!

SMG

It Happened Again ...

Just a couple days ago I posted about how God keeps showing up and proving to me that He has this trip ALL IN HIS HANDS!!  Well, He did it yet again today!

Several weeks ago we had a contest at work.  From 5pm-close, the store who made the most money (over last year), the Store Manager received $250.  Pretty sweet, right?  Yea it would have been sweet if I was the store manager, buuuut I'm not!  We did win the contest though!!

Today was pay day, and my store manager noticed on her check that the $250 bonus was on that check.  But she didn't work that Saturday, so she didn't feel like she deserved the money.  So what did she do?  She split the money up between who was working that night!!  Pretty sweet of her, right?  Totally!!

God showed up ... AGAIN!!

SMG

"Your Love Never Fails"

Tonight at my church’s youth group, the topic was of course “Love Talk” since yesterday was Valentine’s Day.  At the end of the service we sang the song “Your Love Never Fails.”  As I was standing there singing the words of that song it just hit me …

            “You make all things, work together for my good”

It hit me! God is so powerful.  Of course I already knew this, but with my trip to Haiti coming up this summer I’m relying on Him more to provide all of my financial needs.  And within this past week, He has proven Himself twice.

I attend a Zumba class several times a week and when I announced that I was going to be going to Haiti this summer for two months, one of my instructors offered to do a Super Zumba Class (90 minutes, instead of 60) in order to help me raise some money.  Of course I was pumped!!  Well at class this week, she came up to me and told me that the secretary at their church asked if I might consider coming one Sunday morning to speak on my past trips to Haiti.  She said that if I did that, then they would probably take up a love offering for me.  BAM!! God is good!!

Then a couple days later my mom texted me asking if I might want to house/pet sit this weekend for one of her friends.  Duh!! An opportunity to get out of my house and have peace and quite, pluuus get some extra money, double YES!! But it gets better!! When I went to the house to get the low down on the animals and the routines, they mentioned that if I would like too, that they might use me more often on the weekends when they go out of town.  BAM!! God is GREAT!!

When I first learned that I had been accepted as an intern to go to Haiti I had several sleepless nights because I had so much anxiety over how I was going to raise that much money.  I finally turned it over to God and put it in His hands.  If He was truly calling me to Haiti, then He would provide the money.  Heck He’s done it twice in the past, so I KNOW He can do it again!!  And as time goes on, He keeps proving Himself more and more.

“You make all things, work together for my good” … He has this whole trip in His hands, and I can’t think of anyone’s hands I’d rather it be in!

Your Love Never Fails

Nothing can separate

Even if I ran away

Your love never fails

I know I still make mistakes

But You have new mercies for me everyday

Your love never fails

Chorus:

You stay the same through the ages

Your love never changes

There may be pain in the night but joy comes in the morning

And when the oceans rage

I don’t have to be afraid

Because I know that You love me

Your love never fails

The wind is strong and the water’s deep

But I’m not alone here in these open seas

Cause Your love never fails

The chasm is far too wide

I never thought I’d reach the other side

But Your love never fails

Bridge:

You make all things work together for my good

SMG