The Best is Yet to Come!: God's Love Part 2

In Mid-January I posted a list of prayer requests . . . I want to post the updates and give God all the glory for what He has done! Here were the request:

1. Wisdom - God's words for His purposes
2. Safety as we travel & speak
3. Good weather - NO snow, ice, rain storms, etc.
4. Isabelle - boldness & courage to speak God's truth; protection from nightmares
5. Holy Spirit to prepare the hearts of all who will hear her message
6. God will move the hearts of those who hear into ACTION!!!
7. John Michael challenged & encouraged in his faith; to have dry nights
8. Kevin & I to focus on God's purposes & to be protected from distractions
9. House - completed on time; good communication with our contractors; NO RAIN!
10. Work - for burdensome paper work, details, & organization stuff to come together smoothly & quickly

Here are the answers:

1. Wisdom - God has abundantly poured out His words in every situation He has allowed us to
speak up for orphans! We are thankful!!

2 & 3. We have had both safety & good weather on all our different excursions to speak up for orphans! Praise God!!

4. Isabelle has shown more boldness and courage in speaking up as well as sharing her faith with others than I could have imagined. It has been a blessing to watch. She has not had any more nightmares!

5 & 6 Holy Spirit prepared hearts clearly sums up what we have seen. The responses to our story have been miraculous. There is no other way to describe it! Hearts have been moved, lives have been changed - THANK YOU FOR PRAYING!!!

7. JM has been challenged in his faith for sure. Two weeks ago, he prayed to have Jesus come and live in his heart. He was very excited about this. He has been asking a lot of questions about being baptized so we are prayerfully waiting on the Lord for His timing in this. (I have to say Isabelle was not as impressed or excited about this as she said, "mom, when he was 2 1/2 -3 yrs. old I asked him if he wanted Jesus to live in his heart and he said yes and prayed with me! He already did it once." Truth be told - she led him to the Lord at least 3 times that Kevin and I know about as we overheard & watched the whole thing - PRECIOUS! SO, his precious heart is definitely saved!) DRY NIGHTS - we are seeing improvement with a new alarm, but still not fully dry - continued prayers are appreciated!

8. Kevin & I have been deeply moved & God has been protecting us from distractions - for that we are grateful. The previous post and the next one I write will include more details of what God has been teaching us!

9. House - we hope to be moving in by March 28th - HALLELUJAH!!! Communication with the builder has been better, and the Lord has heard our prayers for better weather. A Feb. 24 winter storm (likened to Christmas eve storm here) never materialized - we were SO thankful!

10. Work - Kevin has been blessed to see the burdensome load at work diminish and he has been able to catch up and complete many things . . . so he is able to rest better! We are praying for continued warmer days & work to begin kicking in. It has been slow to get started with cold temps. around!!

Thank you so much for praying . . . We see God's continual love as we write out our requests & see them answered. He is for us! He is always working in our lives! It is amazing to witness!

God loves you . . . take time to thank Him for His great faithfulness to you today!

Here are some new house pics . . . we will be painting this weekend, so new ones to come by 1st of next week!