Weekly Update: Thursday, 03/15/12
Hello everyone,
My wife and I have enjoyed our week in England very much! We are back in Enschede, The Netherlands, now and are getting back into the swing of things.
England is really cool! The landscape as we traveled by train from Manchester to Ulverston reminded me of Tennessee or Kentucky in some places. There are sheep everywhere and most of the fences are walls made out of stone with rich green pastures in between. On the coast we saw tidal bays that separate small arms of land that reach into the north Atlantic ocean. The lake district, as it is called, is a very beautiful place!
Our son also learned to get used to the new surroundings a few days after we got there. He was a bit unsure of traveling at first, or at least he looked so, but he handled it all really well. He slept through most of the train rides and slept each time the plane landed too.
For me, our week at the Red Lion Bed & Breakfast was good for sorting my heart out.
Often times I can forget that God still has a lot of work to do in me. I know that He has called me to write, I know He has called me to teach, and I know He has called me to pioneer new things for His kingdom; though, I can become disillusioned that I know how to do these things better than anyone else. When I set my hands to something I want it to succeed and to be amazing; not that God would get the glory for it, but that I wouldn’t be embarrassed by its failure or that I needed help to do it well.
That is what I saw in myself this weekend.
It holds me back and I don’t want it. I want to be alive and do the things God has called me to do; I don’t need to be perfect or prove that I don’t need help before that happens. It is rotten and it spoils my life with God and everyone else!
Please pray with us that God will sort this out in me! I want to be given to Him and grow in everything He has given me to love and do.
Thanks for keeping p with us!
Other Updates:
– In two weeks I will be flying into South-East Asia. I will be spending three weeks there networking with other leaders of the SOAP and other ministry leaders. I will be writing more about the trip next week.
Scripture:
What will we trust God for?
In Numbers 27:1-11, right after God tells Moses to renumber the children of Israel, we find the daughters of a man named Zelophehad asking Moses for their father’s inheritance. ‘Our father has died in the wilderness’, they say, ‘and he had no sons. We do not want our fathers name to disappear because he had no son; give us the land our father would have received.’
Now, this is a long time before woman had many rights – what do you think God’s response is?
He agrees; He says they are right and commands Moses to give them a place in the land with the rest of their father’s family. He also commands Moses to make sure that they receive their father’s inheritance.
They trusted that God would stand up for them and He did.
What are we trusting God for today?
Praise & Prayer Report:
– We’ve won 600 Pampers diapers from “Wij”, a Dutch magazine for new parents. Praise God for the blessing!
– Please be praying with us for my wife’s visa! While I am able to stay in the Netherlands for another 90 days, out of the next 180 days, we do not know if her visa will be approved before I have to leave The Netherlands. We are not sure of what we will do if the visa does not come before I need to leave again.
Thanks for all your prayers!
In Christ,
The Abiding Kingdom
The Abiding Kingdom 