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Mar. 21, 2006

Thought provoking thought of the day.

One day can change everything! Rely on God for your strength!

God is our strength! In Him we are made strong. Even when you can’t understand His will. He knows and loves you and will always attempt to:

“Use the best possible means to achieve the best possible results, for the most possible people, at the best possible times”. –Pastor Kenny

We will not be buying the house that we thought we would be buying. We just found out yesterday. I had for a little over a month been decorating it in my head, and had loved all the things that having it meant. Yes I was sad that this ended up this way. However, I’ve learned from the past 2 years of waiting for this to happen for us, that God has a purpose. He will show us that purpose some day. For now I will just wait on Him.

The Bible talks about a man that when he was a boy was chosen by God to fulfill a greater good (“the best possible results”) for the future of Israel (“the most possible people”). His name was Joseph. His brothers sold him to slavery and lied to his father saying that he was dead. While in slavery he was wrongly accused of rape and was imprisioned. While he spent all those YEARS in prison, the Bible clearly notes several times in Genesis 39: “…²¹But the LORD was with Joseph there…”

Believe it or not… THAT WAS THE BEST POSSIBLE MEANS! You may be thinking…what?...How can being in Prison be the best possible means? I have felt that way too…How can what I’m going through whether this or not having our own children be the “best possible means”?

You see, if it wasn’t for him being in prison for so long, he would have NEVER ever translated other dreams of the other prisioners and if had never done THAT, then he would have never translated the pharaoh’s dream and never would he have been in the good side of the pharaoh….who later made him high in command (“at the best possible times”, and fulfilled the prophesy of Joseph himself!!!

-You still with me? Good!

Our prayer for this Blog, I write it here only so that perhaps you’ll understand what my heart is when writing about this situation in our lives:

Lord, may our lives, as we write about them in this blog be used by you, to be a thought-provoking-encouragement, through what your Word says about our experiences…Lord I realize that this may mean there will be more roller-coaster of experiences that you want us to learn, and so we say: May your will be done in us, Lord. Show us what you’ll have us do and may we SEEK the strength from your Word to deal with everything, just like Joseph!

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Mar. 21, 2006 - Best Possible Means

Posted by BeckyJoie

My dear friend, Lyssie,

I'm so sorry to hear that you are not going to be able to buy the house. I know that it is very disappointing as you were so looking forward to it.

The only thing I can offer by way of sympathy is to say that we've been there several times and now are without our own place. It is a hard road to walk but I know that God will use it for the best. Renting is not the ideal dream, but it has it's advantages too. Perhaps the Lord will use this in some way to further your ministry as you will not be tied down with house payments and mainenance. At any rate, remember we love you an are praying for God to use it as the best possible tool in your life. May He bless you a hundred fold for the pain you have suffered. May He restore abundantly for all that you are lacking, whether it be the lack of your own children being filled with spiritual children or the lack of a home being used to minister to the people you have stayed with. Who knows the great plan He has for you, to give you a hope and a future? Only He knows. He who knows best knows most.

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I'm not a homeschooler....Yet! My husband and I have actually been diagnosed as unable have natural children. So I feel like in life, I am just waiting. Waiting to have the children to teach things to, or waiting for the joy of home-schooling, or waiting for an answer on something, or a house, or waiting to learn some new thing God wants to teach us. Either way you look at it, we feel that we are just usually 'waiting'. In the mean time, we just keep our hearts open and our eyes peeled. In due time, we will know and understand. WARNING: THE VIEWS PORTRAYED HERE ARE SOLELY MINE AND DO NOT REFLECT THE MENTALITY OF ALL CHRISTIANS OR ANY ORGANIZATION. I AM HEREBY WARNING YOU THAT AS A HUMAN I CAN MAKE MISTAKES, HOWEVER, I PRAY THAT I DON'T AS MY JOB ON EARTH IS TO BRING GOD'S WORD FORWARD IN LOVE AND I BELIEVE HIS WORD IS NEVER WRONG.