Instead, he opens huge airplane hangar wings!
As many of you know, Jess and I currently live in a little apartment in Pasadena. Valencia is not that incredibly far away, but a thirty minute drive is still a thirty minute drive, especially when we want to try and be as involved as we can with the Crossroads community.
We were thinking that we'd move out to Valencia when Jess finished her master's/credential program at Azusa Pacific University, which would be 1.5 years from now, at which point I would also have more hours at Crossroads, and we'd be in a better position, financially, to move. But God had other plans for us...
One of the gals from the Crossroads family, Kathleen (I'm sorry Kathleen, I don't remember your last name!!), offered to rent us her condo in Valencia for a really great price...for Valencia. That was still a little more than we were comfortable with, and we were praying that God would lead us and direct us to where he wanted us. Then yesterday afternoon, Kathleen sent me a text message saying she had just spoken with a family from Crossroads who offered to pay $200 a month towards our rent for our first year!! Jess and I couldn't believe it!
So it looks like we'll be able to move out to Valencia in the coming weeks, and we'll be able to invest more in our community, and church family! Jess will face a little bit of a trek coming home from APU twice a week, but the 210 freeway rarely has traffic, especially at 9:30 pm, and we'll save on our commute on Sundays and during the week out to Valencia! I can't stop using exclamation marks!!!
So we are praising God for providing so amazingly for our needs, and for this family who has blessed us beyond what they probably realize (I wish they could've heard Jess on the phone when I told her...)!
Now, if anyone wants to help us move, or has a truck we could borrow... ;0)
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your request be made known to God
– Philippians 4:6
For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious about your life,
as to what you will eat or what you will drink;
nor for your body, as to what you will put on.
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow,
nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not worth much more than they?
And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?
And why are you worried about your clothing?
Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin,
yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.
But if God so clothes the grass of the field,
which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace,
will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!
Do not worry then, saying ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’
or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’
For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things;
for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
-Matthew 6:25-33
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