Showers of Blessings

When we began this journey, It began with obedience to God. God wants us to be obedient to Him in all things. because He knows what is best for us.

His word tells us. that everything belongs to him and we are to be good stewards of what he has given us.

We always felt, we've tried to honor God by sharing all that He has allowed us to have. But, here is the hard part to admit. There were things we owned, that we gave God the credit for allowing us to have, because we desired them. Not that God doesn't want us to have nice things or things that bring us pleasure. He wants us to have things we can truely afford. Things we can own without going into debt.

Debt, that four letter word that gets us into trouble. The American way.

These past months our church has been talking about living the way God wants us to live. Debt free. We were in Debt. Our income covered the payments but did not leave much room for anything else. We began to impliment the tools we learned from a Dave Ramsey Course we took at church.

The debt slowly began to disappear. In a time where money is tight and the prices of gas are high, we needed to sell a gas guzzling truck and a boat. Everyone told us, that will be impossible. The Truck sold in 4 days at the price we needed to pay it off and make a small profit. The boat sold in a week before we really had a chance to list it. Our garage sale was a great success and other things we had, that we thought we could not live without, sold quickly. We praise God for the way he blessed us. All we had to do was let go!

If we had not taken the steps to obey God in these things ,we could not have served as missionaries. Our disobedience in the way we handled our money would have stood in the way. We were bound because of debt to our jobs here.

During this time I realized I was going to need some dental work done. I knew I could not put it off any longer and it had to be done before we left for the mission field. I decided to check out a new place in town. They were advertising some services for free. With our debt reduction plan this was not a good time to run up a large dental bill. They got me in right away. After the dentist did my exam he told me I needed thousand of dollars of work done. I asked him to tell me what was absolutely neccessary. I explained we had applied to be career missionaries to Haiti and I could not afford to run up a large dental bill. The dentist looked at me with a big smile. He could not believe I was going to his home country. To shorten up a long story the dentist is a believer and came to this country with his family at age 13. God provided. Another undeserved blessing from God. He used one of his children to help another. I was able to get all my dental work done because he did most of it for free. He and his wife have chosen to be financial partners with us to Haiti.

Things don't make us happy. It is being in the will of God and the blessings it brings.

We have learned to stop asking God to use us and instead ask God to help us become people He can use.