Something else the lord did was provide a bunch of furniture for our house which is honestly a monumental job and we just met someone who will donate everything else we are missing to completely furnish the rest of the house. One little thing that was a real faith builder for me was when I was on a trip just a week ago we had had the opportunity to get some personal needs and I really wanted to get some Persian style rugs as the floor of our little cabin where our family stays has some stains that would be easily covered by a nice rug. I found these rugs are not cheap and even the bad quality ones are not that cheap so I wasn’t able to get them and on the way back from our trip as I was driving I was thinking about the fact that I wasn’t able to get these rugs and almost complaining to the lord saying why can’t you just give us the money we need to get everything we need and the lord said to me clearly why don’t you ask me to give you the rug and that woke me up to the reality that I had not asked the lord to supply a rug for our room and actually I had not been faithful to use prayer to supply specific needs. So I said a heartfelt prayer asking the lord for the perfect size rug. The truth is I didn’t know what size I need but it turned out I need the larger kind of Persian style rug and I was already scared by the prices of the smaller ones. So anyway 3 days later someone came to visit and had said a friend of theirs was moving houses and gave them two Persian rugs and they didn’t need them so they gave them to us and one was the perfect color and size for our cabin I couldn’t of picked it better myself and the other one we put in the main living room and it also was the perfect size and color to match our living room furniture. So that was something that was quite faith building for me and I hope that I can continue to accomplish thing that way through prayer and depending on the Lord

We went out with a mission to ask these different places that have these things, if they would be able to donate what we need after explaining to them the missionary work that we do. It was very encouraging because the first lumber yard we went to, the owner said that he would help us with some of the wood that we need for the floor! Wonderful! So thatÂ’s a start, and there are some other people that we met that day that may help us also, we just have to wait and pray. Many times that is part of the life of faith, having patience and persevering, not expecting immediate results all the time but being willing to patiently work until you see results. Thank you for your prayers. If you have anything you would like us to pray for, send us your request and weÂ’’d be happy to keep you in our prayers.

It’s hard for me to stop sometimes and take that time with the Lord and I of course have the voice of the devil right there ready to try and convince me that’s it’s boring so I really admire those like Ceasar and Rosa. These two dear people are part of this blooming bible study and have a real hunger to learn about the things of the spirit. Lord helping us, John and I who are giving this bible study can do our best to make things interesting and power packed.

Today we studied about “Daring to be different” and challenged our students to be different from the majority by following in Jesus’ footsteps of loving your neighbor as yourself. Thisais a bit of a heavy topic and if not understood well could come across a bit contradictory. For examples when it says in the Bible “He that saves his life shall lose it, but if you lose your life for Jesus’ sake you shall save it.”This goes completely against our natural thought patterns but it is so true and does not contradict itself.

I am going to include a song that you all can download that I wrote on this subject: True test