Yesterday in our staff development, Pastor Dino shared a slammin’ Word out of 1 Chronicles 5:18-26. He talked about whether we are people that God can trust to the very end of an assignment. Lot, King Saul, Sampson, Caine, and Absolom were all people who didn’t make it to the end. That’s one list I do not want my name on! Trust in self leads to arrogance, which leads to defeat. God gave Chris and I an assignment to get to Italy on this missions trip, and though by human standards it seems impossible financially, I want to show Him that He can trust us.
It’s so funny to me… it’s not really an issue of whether we can trust Him. Of course we can trust Him! Why do we ever doubt that? The question is whether He can trust us…we will fulfill the assignment He has laid out before us, even though it’s a battle? And will we trust Him in that battle? 1 Chronicles 5:20 says, “They were helped in fighting them, and God handed the Hagrites and all their allies over to them, because they cried out to him during the battle. He answered their prayers, because they trusted in him.”
At this point, with all the money we have received and verbal commitments that have been made, we are still somewhere around the $1400 mark from reaching our goal to get to Italy. September 5 we still needed $3600, and now, just two weeks later, $2200 has already come in. Please continue in prayer for us over this… we are are going to finish this assignment, no matter how tough the battle gets!!!
Meg that is awesome! Ya’ll have such a testimony about getting funded!!! Keep on praising HIm!!! The part about God trusting me is something I need to do some serious prayer time about.