Hi Janna, I can relate to what you are going through right now. I'd like to encourage you to keep on believing God for his favors and more than the favors, keep on guardinng your relationship with Him while you are waiting for that job. I was in that situation 8 years ago. I left my company without any job as a replacement. I was jobless and broke for 3 months - but i never felt bad, or burdened or anxious or worried about what's gonna happen next if i run out of funds for jobhunting. What God told me in 2kings through Elijah was "the jar of oil will not run dry until the day of the Lord brings rain to the land". I lift everything up to Him - literally surrendered everything. I asked God to be the one to make the decisions for me when it comes to my job hunting. That what He will give me will be the best for me no matter what it is. I brushed away my own plan of what company to apply for, what profession to pursue. I landed in a job i had no idea of what it is really all about - call center. At that time, I was never aware of how it runs, that there is an industry like this. I thought Lord, whatever pleases You. He humbled me through this job. It was never easy for me. When i was facing tough times, being reprimanded by my boss everyday for not meeting the targets (i started as agent), i never felt discouraged because i strongly believed that God put me into this job for a reason. Everything was new to me back then. True enough, after 5 months, i was promoted. After a year, another promotion. Up to this time, though i haven't been promoted literally since then, the knowledge about life and about the job is really amazing. I am believing that God molded me into a kind of leader that He wants me to be, even molded my character in my workplace. I started to appreciate how it is to surrender to God's will. You may not understand your situation right now, you may land in a job that you don't have any idea of, you may face the greatest challenge and even be humbled, but God is truly a rewarder. I believe that it is His way of bringing you to a higher level of maturity in faith... and more. so brace yourself. God is with you. His grace is sufficient for you. Keep the faith! Niña
----- Original Message ---- From: neggii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 10:51:13 AM Subject: [worldchangers2010] Re: AWWY #5539 - Everything on a Promise... 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! --- On Tue, 7/15/08, elline.salvatierra@ ccbp.com. ph <elline.salvatierra@ ccbp.com. ph> wrote: From: elline.salvatierra@ ccbp.com. ph <elline.salvatierra@ ccbp.com. ph> Subject: [worldchangers2010] Fw: [SMCTQ] AWWY #5539 - Everything on a Promise To: 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." 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