ELLLLOOO world! So i know we havent updated much as of late. in fact, i am not sure when the last time we did an update...opps...sooo i will say this!! Christmas and New Years were AWESOME! its nice being married. we love it. there are lots of cool things going on. the Lord has been doing some major heart work in us. teaching us more about forgiveness, healing, and trust. its hard, and it hurts...but its is SO worth it. so with that, we have been listening to some teaching from this cool dude out of Bethel..named Kris Vallotton. (you should check him out.) and i read this last part of one his blogs, that hit pretty hard...but in the best way! super encouraging!!!
Hold on tight! The Lord is moving. and it is BEAUTIFUL. (NO MATTER WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE)
we love you!!!!
(i am also going to post some pictures soon...thank you all for who support us and pray for us. we need you, we love you. we appreciate you, more than you know!)
"Sometimes it's easy to think that God favors certain people, or that the situation that you are going through is somehow beyond God's ability to fix it. I know these feelings all too well. But the truth is that there is no situation that is impossible with God. One of my great heroes in life is Abraham Lincoln. He was a master at holding on to hope, and never giving up. His list of failures goes something like this: Defeated for state legislature, failed in business, sweetheart died, 1836 had nervous breakdown, 1838 defeated for Speaker, defeated for nomination for Congress, 1848 lost re-nomination. 1849 rejected for land officer, 1854 defeated for U.S. Senate, 1856 defeated for nomination for Vice President, 1858 again defeated for U.S. Senate, and finally 1860 elected president! Talk about a guy who knew how to get up when life knocked him down. Abraham just refused to lose hope.
Proverbs 29:18 says: Where there is no vision, the people perish. There is so much truth held inside of these eight words. Hopelessness is a dream killer. Without hope you can't have faith, and without faith the world is a miserable place to live. The truth is that when all seemed hopeless for Daniel in the lion's den, God saved him. When Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were thrown into the fiery furnace, Jesus himself set them free. When God found a man so bound with hatred that he was murdering Christians, Jesus encountered him on the road to Damascus and changed his name to Paul, transforming him into one of the greatest heroes of faith to have ever graced this planet. The stories go on and on of God's amazing ability to redeem any situation, or save any person.
There is no hand that can be dealt to you with which God is unable to win. There is nothing impossible for God. Whatever is happening in your life, remember this: Jesus is a master of making palaces out of pitfalls. It doesn't matter how far you have fallen, or how big a mess you've made out of your life, "He is able to do exceedingly and abundantly more than you ask or even think!" God specializes in the impossible!"
