Faith

Last night the India Alive 2014 meet for devotional and to discuss our trip. When we closed in prayer God gave me a word. Faith. With it came a picture of Mark 2:1-12 and Luke 5:17-26. For the next few days I will be meditating and getting deeper into these two passages. So, in a couple days come back and see just what Faith is and what Faith can do from these passages. Also feel free to read them yourself and let me know what you find. Have a blessed day and come back to review Faith.

Update on India Alive

Just wanted to do a quick update on the Mission trip. Yes, my title says Mission India 2013, however the date got changed and we are now leaving February 2014. We have a nice title which is India Alive 2014 which I think is just awesome. We are planning on buying the plane tickets this December or January at the latest. We have been working hard on raising the funds to go. We have done everything from car washes, to bake sales, to an Avon Fundraiser. I have also been very busy baking pies. Which seem to be a big hit. We also started working the Life Cafe which not only helps us raise money but also helps those who arrive early at Life, to set-up be able to get some breakfast. With all of this fundraising however I'm still short. I'm not done though and God is amazing!!! I know the funds will come from unexpected places. From donations giving by loved ones or donations giving from complete strangers they will come in. God is just that amazing to work in everybody's heart to be able to donate. If you are thinking of donating but really think why give her money to go, remember your not giving me money to go what you are doing is giving money to help Orphans, sweet little angels who just want a hug, and I want to go hug them and show them the Love of God. Have a wonderful week and may God bless you throughout it.

Update for Mission India. The travel dates have changed. It had come to our attention that 2013 is a huge religious year for some of the different religions in India, because of this it would be unsafe for us to be in India in 2013. So, our date has changed to February of 2014. It was also changed because of the short time we had to raise the money and more importantly prepare ourselves spiritually for the trip. It will be a huge spiritual battle we will be going into and because of that we need to be prayed up and filled with the Holy Spirit and in that way we will overcome and have a successful and God filled trip. Please continue to pray for us. Have a blessed end of 2012 and know in confidence that 2013 will also be a year filled with blessings and the love of God.

Update on Fundraising

I am just over joyed right now. I have faith and I know that God will provide a way for me to get to India. How it will happen is beyond me but not beyond God. My God is greater than anything and everything.

So, to help get to India I'm not going to sit around and wait for the miracle from God. God tells us we must go and work. Therefore I am doing fundraisers to help get to India. I have done a bake sale and have been baking pies for Thanksgiving like crazy. I will also be baking pies for Christmas but that won't be until December. Now all this baking it will take 250-500 pies to make the total I need so, pies will not get me to India but they will help me get there. I am still waiting for the miracle from God for the rest of it.

Now through these fundraisers and a few donations from some beautiful people I have raised, $379 dollars towards Mission India. Which excites me!!

Now on to more fundraising ideas and work towards getting to India. Pray for me daily, not only for the funds but also spiritually and for everyone preparing to go. Be blessed and have faith in God, he will provide when you least expect it.

I feel so bad. I haven't updated my blog so no one knows what is currently going on with Mission India. In answer to that though is lots and lots. We are doing tons of fundraising to help us meet our goal of $2,800. Yes, the price did go down. It got reworked and adjusted which is a blessing. However it is still a lot of money to raise in such a short time. In about three and a half months I will be in India. I'm so excited. Back to fundraising. To help us all reach our goals we are doing different fundraisers. Two that are currently going on are: Ornament sales (which ends November 11th) and pies (which ends a week before I leave for India). The pies had been just for the holidays but at this time I will make pies for anybody who wants one and deliver it whenever you would like. I have one friend who wants a strawberry-rhubarb pie. Rhubarb is seasonal so she is waiting for them to come in season and is paying for the pie ahead of time. Which is awesome. We had a goal of selling 100 ornaments and/or pies by December I'm almost halfway there. My beautiful mother bought 2 pies for Thanksgiving even though she knows I would of just made them for the family, and she bought an ornament and she doesn't celebrate Christmas. I thought it was so sweet of her. Near the end of this month we will be doing a tamale fundraiser. Which once again my beautiful mother is helping out with it. She is actually helping us make the tamales.  Then for the month of January we will be doing pancake breakfasts at the church every Sunday morning. I am personally making the pancakes. Oh we are also doing a bake sale later this month. Right now each of us needs to raise $1500 by December. This is for our plane tickets. Not sure how it will happen but I know it will. God works in miraculous ways and if it is his will for us to go the funds will be there.

I will also be doing another blog through our church. Once it is up and running I will let everyone know how they can find it and read it. I need to still do my first blog.

Faith that can move mountains. Mountains move as you have faith and prayer lots of faith and prayer. However that doesn't mean more mountains won't arise. Unexpected expenses arose so now I won't be getting my passport or my right birth certificate this week. It did frustrate me at first and as I was doing my own thing yesterday it just kept coming to me of doing God's will and seeking first the kingdom of heaven. How am I to know God's will if at first I don't seek him. I do still believe it is God's will for me to go to India and tell others about his love however I need to dig deeper into his word and know so much more than I know now before I go.

The other night I had the oddest dream. We were preparing to go to India at the airport and ready to go. However some of us still didn't have passports. I was one of them. Pastor Charmaine was with us and we were waiting at the curb then Pastor Paul was there getting his stuff because he was going with us. (Now at this time neither Pastor Charmaine or Pastor Paul are going to India) however in my dream they were both going. Those of us without a passport were to go with Paul to Florida and then go on to India while the rest went straight to India. Next thing I know I am staying in a home somewhere in India and there is this precious little girl who has never been loved who I am showing God's love too. For me this dream is just confirming that I will be going and showing people the love of God. I have the love in my I just need to let it out.

But first I must seek the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 6: 25-34 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how they flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you-you of little faith? So do not worry, saying 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all of these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

Why should I worry about how and why. It is all in God's hands. His will be done in my life. As I follow Christ the things that I need will be taking care of. Especially the needs that need to be met to follow God's will for my life. If it is the Lord's will that I go to India and spread his word then the funds will be there and the passport will come and the shots will be gotten. How can I do this when mountains keep coming, the funds that I had for going are spent. Seek first God and all these things will come. Why worry when God will provide for me as long as I seek him first. How many of us when we get up watch the news or go online and check what is going on with Facebook or just in the world? Yes, I am guilty of this. Is this putting God first in our lives? What kind of difference would it make if the fist thing we did in the morning was to read God's word, or pray or turn on worship music and just take the time to praise and worship God. It would make a huge difference because we would be seeking God first in our lives. He is the one who gets us through each day, even when we fail him he still stands up for us and gives us grace. When all we deserve is to be condemned and cast aside God sent his Son to die for us so that we can be saved and lifted up and given another chance. Did the news or Facebook ever die for us, would they?  No, never. The world would be quick to condemn us for our sins. So, why then do we first go to the world instead of God? Will the world cloth us and feed us? or will God? Now I know God is my provider, my redeemer, my everything. Now I need to put it into practice, I need to seek first the Kingdom of of God and his righteousness and as I do that he will provide for me. Who will you seek first?

Well today was an interesting day. I ended up getting some unexpected money so I went down to get my passport with it. I get to the post office they inform me I need to make an appointment. No problem made it for 11:15. Of course I'm early but she takes me in. She is very happy with the fact I have my drivers license already copied and my paper work together. Then she asks for my birth certificate. Which of course I left at home. She tells me it is okay run home and get it but be safe. I run home search all over for my birth certificate then remember where I filed it and pull everything out to find it, then I run back to the post office and give it to her. Now she feels bad, I needed my full birth certificate not just the abstract of birth one. Then I find out you can no longer just pick up your birth certificate at the library you have to pick it up at the auditor controllers office. Which our closest one is in Hesperia so now I got to drive out there to get it. So, I rescheduled an appointment to get my passport and will have to go pick up a new and different birth certificate this week. More mountains just jumping up and trying to get in my way of doing the Lord's work. However I have faith that can move mountains.