"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do." James 1:2-8
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| Dan, Melissa, and some of da crisis response boys |
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| Water running off Melissa's roof as we begin to jack it up to level. Ain't much purrtier in life than that. |
Thanks for coming back to read up some more on how God is moving in our lives and the lives of those in the Morehead City community. We are wrapping things up at Willis MHP for now. Please pray we finish strong and give God the glory in that community as we work towards fixing the roof on Melissa's trailer. In all God has truly blessed us to be able to use our hands and words to serve our neighbors and spread the Gospel. He has stretched each one of us personally and now it comes down to what we will do about the questions and lessons learned as we transition to a period of reflection and planning to seek wisdom. Please pray that we seek wisdom from scripture as James talks about in the above passage over the next weeks to dig deeper into the character and will of God. Let us be open and vulnerable to the working of the Holy Spirit in our hearts so that we may continue to serve boldly for the purpose of the Cross.
A good friend of mine reminded me just recently as I was personally struggling with being weary and feeling inadequate.
"God does not call the qualified, but He qualifies the called."
Pray we take that mindset, not as a cop out for laziness or lack of effort, but as a firm reminder of the sovereignty of our awesome God. That He does not require, nor will we ever be, qualified by the merits of our own efforts, but that He has chosen to use us as broken vessels to spread His love To work with all our body, mind, and spirit. And the Holy Spirit will continually guide, equip, and redeem us if we are obedient.
"Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody." 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12
