Wow...It's been a while since I have written, but I'm home for Christmas, and ready to update this thing!
To begin with, get this:
A friend of mine and her family have been fulltime missionaries in Kazakastan for the past few years and she has recently come back to the U.S. for college at Troy (how we met). She left KZ in july and has not seen her family since then, and was told not to expect to see them before the following summer! She has the most humble spirit and has not complained once about not being able to be with her family, but about 2 weeks ago her dad called her to tell her they would be flying her home for Christmas! She was so excited, but soon discovered that her passport was going to expire before Christmas, and would have to reapply for a visa as well. Not letting it bring her down she asked all of our friends to pray as she began the process to get a passport and visa. Fortunately she was able to get a meeting in New orleans the following week, and after waiting only 1 hour she was approved for a passport and visa. ( Check 1) Then the passport and visa would be sent to Washington to be approved,to KZ, then back to Washington to approve KZ approval (Crazy!) and then finally back to Brimingham where she would be flying out of. She was told this would take at least a week, and it may take a couple of months. ( Remember she needed this in exactly one week) Still not losing faith, she called all of us once more to pray and just 2 days later, she got word that the passport and visa were waiting for her in Birmingham!!
This was such awesome news we barely could believe it, how does that happen, and there is only one way...GOD himself!
It was then that i realized just what I was doing, here, I was praying for something that in the back of my head never thought could happen. Wow was i wrong, not only did he answer it, but better than we could have ever planned or imagined! It reminded me of that verse: "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."(Ephesians 3:20-21)
He truly is an amazing God, and his mercies are new each and every day! Continue to trust in the Lord with EVERYTHING that you have, and know without a doubt HE IS ABLE!
