Home Stretch

The end of the Semester is right around the corner and the days are a blur right now. My head is filled with questions about the authorship of the Gospels, how i am going to pay my rent and my tuition, what classes i can afford and handle this summer, and will we ever see just a little prosperity during this season? i find myself not necessarily wondering if God will provide, but what we are to learn as a family being this far down the edge of the cliff?

God is ruining our dependence on finances and i believe He is doing it on purpose and with a future purpose in mind. mickie and i have always been poor to some degree all of our thirteen years together, but we are hitting an all time low. Now please don't misunderstand; we are not poor at all compared to the world, so i mean lack of money only. It would be ridiculous to not recognize how overwhelmingly blessed we have been in all areas aside from finances. Praise be to God cause His ways are higher than our ways!

We are blessed in what i consider to be the things that really matter:

1) Children

Psalm 127:3-5
3 Behold, children are a gift of the LORD,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one's youth.
5 How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them;
They will not be ashamed
When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

2) My Beautiful Spouse (i am not speaking for mickie causes the LORD knows i ain't beautiful!!!)

Proverbs 18:22
22 He who finds a wife finds what is good
and receives favor from the LORD.

Proverbs 12:4
4 An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,
But she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones.

3) Most important is a growing relationship with Yeshua our Messiah

Philippians 3:7-9
7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,

O' LORD let that be my aim today, tomorrow and forever; to forsake all things for the surpassing greatness of knowing You. Let me never grow distraught for not having the things that the world seeks after. But instead let me remember what is important to Your heart. May You be glorified in all we endeavour to do and say. By the blood of Yeshua in the power of the Spirit and for the Glory of the Father, Amayn.