Beliving God has been there all along

Here's the Update- Wednesday night, Hans is meeting with the Elders to receive a formal offer and to discuss the logistics of him working full-time, having a family and going to school full-time...

"Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things." (Joshua 3:5)

Yes, you know I have to write about my Bible study once again. I am telling you God is speaking his word over me and I cannot contain it- Jerimiah 20:9"...His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in, indeed I cannot." This is how I feel today!

I have come to the realization that in our life we must cross many Jordan rivers. In Joshua chapter 4 we studied today how the Isrealites crossed the river, stopped in the middle and took stones of memorial to remember what the Lord had done. I think we are at the point where our "spiritual" lives mix with our "physical" lives in that we pick up the Bible and everything we read speaks to us about our life situation. I have been freed from slavery, went through the desert complaining, tasted the promised land and now, it seems like I am standing in the middle of the Jordan taking my memoral stone facing my promised land and knowing that there will probably be a circumsicion and a Jericho... I have not experienced it yet, I'm just preparing myself.

For two years (it has been two years because we started praying about full time ministry in the summer of 2004) I have read the Bible and seen the promises, but never thought about what they would actually look like. I will be the first to tell you that every step of the way I have been pleasently surprised to see that this is what the desire of my heart is ("delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desire of your heart" psalms somewhere) but I know that He knows better than me (I mean who would choose to live here in Lincoln??)

When we started on this Journey to come to Lincoln the verse that God put in my heart (or better said as "fair warning") was from Isaiah 7:9, "If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all." I must admit that I almost lost it from not "standing firm" and all I could do was pray to be rescued. In Exodus 14, when the Israelites were crossing the Red Sea they were terrified at the the approaching army and pretty much asked Moses why he brought them out of Egypt only to be killed in the desert. He replied "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the diliverence the LORD will bring you today....The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still." (vs. 13-14) I am sure I am the only one about ready to jump because of the excitement from seeing it full circle, but like I said, I cannot contain it.

I think I am in the middle of the Jordan taking my stone for memorial.

"As you come to him, the Living Stone-- rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him-- you also, like living stones, are becoming built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifieces acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." (1 Peter 2:4-5)

More updates later~~