Kyle got laid off last Friday. Those words seem so empty. Kyle is amazing...pillar of strength. I think mostly for me. I wish I could say that I am a pillar of strength for him but truth be told I am broken. Funny thing is I prayed that Kyle would have a better work situation and that he would be happier where he worked. God answered my prayer...just not in the way I was expecting.
God is amazing he is speaking louder than he has in a long time to me. Every book that I pick up there is a central theme that God it trying to tell us... I will never leave you nor forsake you (Heb 13:5). I was reading our bible study that we are doing in church. It is called Espresso with Esther. I never knew that Esther was such a great story. I wanted to post a little excerpt from the book that I think pertains to our situation so perfectly:
" Often, despite all we know of God, things happen that don't seem to make sense-things that make it look like the world is spinning out of control. Things that break our hearts. We all have such stories, don't we? The tsunami, the earthquake, the hurricane, the war, the sickness. Our planet groans as if writhing in childbirth as it longs for the day when the Prince on a white horse will arrive and make all things new. But this is not that day. So for now, like Jesus at Lazarus' tomb knowing a happy ending is right around the corner, we still weep. We learn from the book of Esther that it may look like all is lost. It may seem as though God is absent. Yet the known facts are not all the facts. The story is not over yet. So we wait and trust..."
That little paragraph spoke directly to my heart. It was as if God wanted me to read this today. God will keep his promises!
Please pray that Kyle will find a job that will glorify God in all that he does. That Kyle would find a job that challenges him spiritually and will increase his knowledge. That he would find a job that he loves going to and loves the people that he works with. Thank you for your prayers.
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For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:11
Do Not Worry -Matthew 6:25-34
25"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 important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look 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? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If 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, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Praying for you and Kyle. God is good and He is for You!!
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