Saturday, August 9, 2008

So that you may be strengthened...

     As most of you know, we have had a series of events that have shaken us a bit, the break-in to our house and three cars outside our house, that have put questions in my mind. 

Many times I wonder why God allows some things to happen in my life, I am sure many of us do at some point question the "plan" or "motive" for the events in our lives. Lately,  I have been thinking about what has happened here in Africa in these past two months, I don't have answers. But I came across this passage that has helped me some, to see what God wants from us: 

                 "I pray that out of His glorious riches he may strengthen you with power 
                 through his Spirit in your inner being , so that Christ may dwell in your hearts
                 through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may 
                 have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how WIDE and LONG and 
                 HIGH and DEEP is the love of Christ. "
                                                                                           Ephesians 3:16-19

I want for God to dwell in my heart, I want to have the power and faith to grasp that love that He has for me. 

We have been scared, and still are... there have been sleepless nights and times when we don't want to be in that house. I have been sleeping in one bed with Neysia and the night before last was the first night we decided to sleep in our own beds... we made it through the night and were very proud of ourselves. There is a process of healing that we are going through and I ask you to specially pray for Tara, it is going to be harder for her. 
We are planning on moving out of our house, it is going to be a little hard to do because we have to break the contract or wait for someone else to rent the house, so please keep that in your prayers as well. 

...satan is trying to break us, we are a threat to him. But we are not going to let him. 

I am praying to be strengthened by this... so I can grasp how wide and long and high and deep is that LOVE He has for ME.

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