In last month’s Update we asked you to join us in prayer for God’s guidance and clarity regarding the possibility of a missions internship. Well, God hears and answers the prayers of His people, though often not in the ways we expect!
Thank you for praying with us because after a trip to New Hampshire to meet with Larry Clouse, a pastor on the board of directors for our mission agency, we have the clear direction we have been praying for. Rather than spend the remainder of this year in an internship on his staff, we are going to follow his counsel to begin full-time deputation and get to the field. This was not at all what we expected to hear, although we found it very encouraging.
We heard it said recently that you can tell something is the work of God because you do not have to pull it, it pulls you. We can certainly identify with that statement. This past year has been exhilarating as we simply follow God while He graciously and powerfully leads us in the direction He wants us to go. We have been so blessed to watch Him open doors and make things happen.
Of course there have been times of discouragement and times of waiting. But there were lessons for us to learn there. To wait on the Lord, is not always easy. But those are the times He wants us to trust and rest in Him. And those times in the Valley of Wait have paled in comparison to the rest of the journey.
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