This first picture was from last year. We left May 23rd a year ago to go to Florida to see where God was leading our family. The second picture is us now, in Florida, in our new (but temporary) home.
Now May 26th a year later we are here, in our promise land. We are walking into our new home, our new journey God has placed before us. This has been ALL GOD. The transition happened extremely quickly but He has been preparing us for this moment for over a year and a half. The excitement is almost unbearable. To think He placed this on my heart when I was a little girl and to finally be walking onto the land in which He promised, all I can say is WOW. God’s faithfulness, His promises, His provision have left me, have left us, in a blissful, jaw dropping awe.
This year has been difficult on so many levels as we launched into the deep, walking blindly and boldly by faith. There were moments of despair, of weariness, of pitch black darkness but we stood on His promises, holding onto the knot at the end of the rope with every ounce of fight we had. We spent many days and nights on our knees in surrender, in prayer before the Lord, knowing Thy WILL be done. Although holding on was gut wrenching at moments, we knew if anyone was to let go of the rope, it would be the Lord and not us. Throughout this hard, God’s grace has been more than sufficient and He has worked miracles upon miracles within our home. The healing, redemption and resurrection that has taken place is immeasurable, in fact it is purely mind blowing. All we can say is WOW WOW WOW God is good. He is faithful and we are so thankful for all He has done to bring us to this place. Thank you Jesus 🙌
God does not promise easy but He does promise to be our refuge, a safe place in times of trouble. He promises to never leave us nor forsake us and He promises to be faithful throughout it all. He asks us to leave everything to follow Him and that is what we did. We left behind our desires, our will and our expectations of how things should work. We said YES to Him in obedience and continued to say yes, time and time again even when that YES had hesitations. God has stripped us this year but in ripping off our grave clothes that we protected ourselves with, He equipped us in ways I never anticipated or could have imagined. To say we are thankful is an understatement. Our faith has shifted. We have been marked and transformed by this faith journey He called us to. We have been reminded each day what it means to walk by faith, not by sight.
Thank you Jesus