Waiting on God

Sometimes we go through a season of open doors and obvious answers. Other times (those much more annoying times) we have to tread water and wait for rescue. And sometimes the wait is long, but we have to call to God for strength in the waiting .

We don’t know if it’s that we both got sick, if it’s hormones or the cold, dreary weather or that we are just sick of all the earthquake drama… (or all of the above!!) but we hit a wall this week and both felt like we were treading water and beginning to sink. We just couldn’t carry all the unknown questions with smiles on our faces and joy in our hearts! Before you worry, we are TOTALLY FINE! It’s just one of those short seasons of struggle. One of those “I can’t be upbeat and positive all the time!” seasons.

We are continually trusting God through each of these things and believing how He promises to carry our burdens if we let him. If we relinquish worries, stress, the unknown to Him, He is faithful to carry us through.

We’d appreciate your prayers as we have a lot on our minds:

—Our two year visa has 6 months left on it and we are starting to look into the renewal process

—We have several ministry ideas on the table and are waiting for direction/timing on each

—Still have a chemical toilet and waiting for sewer pipe repairs (house still not inspected either)

—Feeling a huge burden for the city and we can get discouraged when others are apathetic. But we have to remind ourselves that God told us before we moved here that there is a lot of apathy and that we will be used to ignite change and catalyze things… so we just need endurance in the journey of doing that! We can feel pressure that we should be on a certain timeline or seeing more progress but we have to remind ourselves that God said our time here will be a marathon not a sprint.. and that the first year would be settling in.

—Personally, I (Kate) have been in a season of re-evaluating what projects/volunteering things I plug into and am trying to manage my time according to what God wants.

—There is a prophecy floating around for something bad happening in late September here and it’s brought a heavy cloud over us as we try to discern if it’s accurate or false.

—And a few other personal things are on our minds as well…

—We keep thinking it would be great timing to go away for September but we keep feeling a “no” from God, so we wait it out, asking Him to help us push through this season.

Thank you for praying for us. Please send us any words you get from the Lord for us! MUCH appreciated!