hi! thanks!
we needed the encouragement...
my husband and i are currently here in singapore believing that this is
where HE wants us to be, this season... he planted a great desire in my
husband's heart to once again pursue his engineering career (GOD tasked him to
teach in jakarta, it was initially difficult but GOD enabled him that he even
became deputy principal!)... at the same time, GOD opened my eyes and gave me
the willingness to submit and let my husband lead our family...
we left our sweet, comfortable life in jakarta and took the plunge, yet
again... this time though, with greater risks... neither of us had any job
offer, we initially didn't even have a place to stay and we had very limited
budget because my mom got sick... but even that didn't dampen our faith or
kept us from obeying GOD and accepting HIS challenge...
we just held on to HIS promise... that where HE guides, HE provides... we're
claiming the same covenant HE made with Abraham (GEN 12: 1-3)
i was praying for jem to get a job first because i have an EPEC which entitles
me to stay here for a year to look for a job while jem's on social visit
pass... but GOD orchestrated things differently... i got a job within a week of
landing here...
it has been a month and 11 days to be exact... still no sign of employment for
my husband... no emails, no calls, no nothing...
but GOD is faithful... as we continue to walk by faith, as my husband continues
to wait on GOD... i would like to ask you to please help pray for us... for the
job GOD has prepared to finally make its way to jem --a job that would give him
the opportunity to be excellent for GOD, to grow professionally at the same
time minister to the men in that field; a job with an excellent compensation
package, enough to support us as we intend to start a 'family' and still be a
blessing to the people around us.. please pray too for jem to always have a
good opinion of GOD, to never tire or lose hope... spring is never sudden but
it surely comes!
thanks!
JANNA CABRERA
GOD owns me and everything in what I thought was my little empire!
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Subject: [worldchangers2010] Fw: [SMCTQ] AWWY #5539 - Everything on a Promise
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Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 5:46 PM
A Word With You
#5539 - Everything on a Promise
1 Samuel 2 : 30
It's pretty amusing to look back at your wedding pictures. At least it is for
me. I can't believe my wife married that kid in the tuxedo, but I'm sure glad
she did! That hour in that church began what has been a lot of years of
wonderful love and partnership. I remember standing up at the front of that
church feeling like a penguin in my tuxedo. The bridesmaids marched down the
aisle and they looked so beautiful, but I didn't want to spend my life with any
of them. Then the organ trumpeted the beginning of the bridal march and there
stood my queen! A few minutes later, at the altar, that wonderful woman made
some very special promises to me about her love, and her commitment, and her
loyalty, and the permanence of our relationship. And I did the same to her. I
had no idea what the future would hold, but I made a life-changing choice that
day. I decided to base everything on a promise.
Many years that I could never have imagined - the valleys and the mountaintops
following that wedding. But I have never regretted basing everything on my
wife's promise to me that day. Now there is such a promise in God's Book and
you have to decide whether or not you will live your life believing that He
will keep this promise. Your decision about this promise will literally affect
hundreds of decisions you're going to make for the rest of your life.
It's our word for today from the Word of God in I Samuel 2:30, "Those who honor
Me, I will honor." In other words, you will never ultimately lose if you choose
to do it "God's" way. It could be that right now you're facing choices that
aren't easy. There seems to be a lot to gain just to compromise a little, just
to step outside the way your lord has taught you to handle it. Maybe it's a
relationship you really want, that you really need or you feel you could
benefit from, but it's with someone who doesn't care about Jesus. It's what the
Bible calls an unequal yoking. Maybe the temptation is a compromise in your
integrity that might help you get a job, or keep a job, or advance in a job, or
a situation where it seems justifiable to sue a brother, which the Bible
forbids.
Could it be that you're facing a choice that looks profitable but it would hurt
your family, or maybe a very enticing sexual situation, or maybe it's a chance
to get even! Whatever the tempting choice, it seems to offer something very
appealing: money, love, recognition, personal satisfaction, advancement - but
it will not honor God. You know it's "out of bounds" for someone who's been
bought by the blood of Jesus Christ, someone who belongs to Him, so it all
comes down to the promise. "If you honor God, He will honor you" in ways you
could never dream. Now maybe not immediately, but it will be worth the wait.
No one who has ever "risked it all" in honoring God, has ever been a loser for
it, so settle this thing right now. Will you today, will you every day, base
everything on a promise made by your all-loving, all-powerful God? On my
wedding day, I chose to build my life on a promise and it has led to so much
treasure! The promise that matters ultimately rests on the character of a God
who has never broken a promise (no matter how many people may have broken their
promises) and His promise is worth basing everything on! "They that honor Me, I
will honor."
Copyright (c) 2008 by Ron Hutchcraft.
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