Australia, The Great Adventure

Archive for December, 2007

I have decided to not do things that would be me working myself out of my situation by my own effort, so that I can rely on God rather than my own strength. I think that I did this subconsciously in the past - where I was simply unable to complete internet projects. I have mostly dealt with that through the frontier statements that I worked through with a counsellor, but I felt with the 20/20 Challenge that I needed to not struggle and strive to provide my own solution to our problem in this case. And I don’t know, maybe that was right. I do know that I couldn’t have done that as well as the regular employment that I have been doing - the regular work has pushed me to my limit between then and now anyway.

I was thinking about how I ask God for things, and I realised that it depended on how I expect to be able to provide them.

If I am asking for something that I have no idea how I am going to provide it, then I am asking God for the thing. “Oh God, can we please have XYZ. We’d really like it. But not my will, Your will be done.” (we add that bit at the end to convince ourselves that we are being really spiritual and praying just like Jesus did… )

I was asked recently what my basis of faith was for believing that God will provide for us during our journey. This is roughly what I said - I thought it was a pretty good summary, so I figured I’d put it on here!

We are in a bit of a bind. I won’t go into details here yet, because I don’t want this post to be fishing for a solution. But the point is by Monday night (today is Friday) we need God to have moved in a supernatural way in our lives, to solve a problem that we have NO WAY of solving by ourselves. (I will post details of how God has come through for us after Monday).

I figured that it would be a good idea to answer the question of “why are we going” all in one place. We have lots of reasons floating about in our heads, but sometimes it is a bit difficult to get it all out if someone asks us.

So here goes…

Always in our hearts to do
This has been something that has always been in our hearts to do, even since before we were married. And we always felt constrained, tied down by our responsibilities to church and job.