Countdown: Day 16

Wow, I am just overwhelmed at the love you have all showed my family over the past few days! God is so amazing!!

I don’t even know where we stand right now financially!! So many of you have contacted me to let me know you are giving to LifeSong and I can’t even put into words how thankful I am! I hope to get an update sometime between now and next Tuesday which will give us a better understanding of how much more we need. I am guessing a few thousand which is a long way from $10,000 a few days ago. Praise the Lord!

So currently we have $2530 in our adoption account and we have $943.60 (matched) in our LifeSong account giving us a total of: $3473.60.

Is all this clear as mud?

As soon as I get totals for our inside China travel and a more current update of our LifeSong account I will update things! Trusting God to do great things!

Please continue to pray for Nate as he will soon make the transition back to the orphanage where he will wait for two long weeks for me to arrive!

Pray that we will continue to grow in the word and in our faith. Pray that we will stand strong and confident in our Lord even when things seem impossible. I don’t feel like I have done a very good job of that over the past week. I have worried, doubted, and feared but the Lord always has a way of reminding me of His greatness. How true the words are in 2 Corinthians 12:10:

 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

I’m going to end with some scripture that has been lingering in my mind today.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 1 Peter 4:12-13

But what ever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes from God that depends on faith- that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 3:7-11