exsperience the wonder.

At work, at the park, at the DMV, it keeps popping up into conversations...

“Me and my family are moving to Europe, to a country called Montenegro to be missionaries in August.”

They always have this look on their face like I'm joking.

 I know, I know it seems a little insane, especially when I think about the baby inside my tummy that I haven't met yet. But In most ways it doesn't seem insane at all. When I look at all God has done, it seems cowardly and foolish to consider any other path...

1000 miracles led us to this point, and that's only the one's i am aware of. It it all began with one simple act of obedience. "Here i am, send me" Those acts obedience takes us into radical situation, where only He can prevail.

So for the last 3 months we have been raising financial support.

If I thought God had a plan before, His provision through the generosity of our friends and loved ones, has been nothing short of overwhelming. Each person that commits to give, is a new miracle, it's God moving in His church, to complete His purpose. Although me and Jesse put effort, intention, and prayer into it, we mostly feel like bystanders watching God work. We are 90% supported as of today, and again, to think of the families and sacrificial gifts makes me realize that we are never alone in our passions when we are apart of the Body of Christ.

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we may walk in them.”

Ephesians 2:10

Whatever God is calling you to, it's not crazy, He wants all of you, He wants to love through you, and do miracles in you. I dare you to put faith into what you say you believe. what he whispers to you when you worship. He has already prepare the steps, walk in them and experience the wonder.

"That we might recieve adoption as sons"

Sometimes, usually often, God speaks to me through movies...

I was watching “A Little Princess” yesterday, and a scene struck me hard. The basic story is, Sara is a wealthy generals daughter who is loved. Later, her father is thought dead and she is cast into destitution. Her father has suffered a memory loss and it living next door. When circumstances could not get any worse, Sara is being chased by the police and sees her father, she is being dragged way from him screaming his name, then suddenly her father remembers his life, and yells “Sarah!”. She is released and run bounding into his arms safe and protected.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWJxEal0ngc&feature=related

What struck me was her position and identiy was defined completly by her fathers perception of her. Under her fathers love and knowledge, she was cherished, adored and completely provided for, without she was wondering desperate on the street.

When we accept Christ, we loose our lives by finding it in Him. I am defined my sin and circumstance no longer, He is my father and I have been blesses by “every spiritual gift” I have been brought into a holy inheritance as a princess daughter.

He is our identity, our position, and only He can show us ourselves. Who we really are. This was further driven home by a movie called Blood Diamond. Solomons son Dia was captured by a child soldier group and he as been brainwashed into believing he is a forgotten fatherless killer. When Solomon finally finds him, this is what happens...

 

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Sometimes I feel like the kid holding the gun, I am angry, insecure and grasping for control. "I turn back to the weak and worthless elemental things, which enslave me" (Gal 4) I have listen to the worlds lies. Then He says “i am your Father, who loves you, come home with me and be my daughter”.

"God sent forth his son, that we might receive adoption as sons, Because we are his sons, He has sent forth His  Son into our hearts crying "Abba Father", therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son."

Galatians 4