Quick Update =)

Hi Guys! Sorry for the delay in posting my next response. Work has been crazy! Well, that and every time I sit down to write this post I seem to get distracted and become unable to focus. I am going to try and have it posted by tomorrow evening.  However I want to give a quick update on my application to Africa Inland Mission.

I emailed my short term coordinator (Ryan) a couple of days ago asking if he could give me any sort of time frame for when I would find out if I had been accepted etc. He answered me back very graciously and said that the acceptance committee only meet once a month and I had just missed September's meeting so I would be presented mid Oct and find out at the latest at the end of Oct. Please pray for patience! I am very much an instant gratification girl! I know two/three weeks isn't very long...but it feels like forever!!! I anticipate the Lord will use this time of waiting to teach me invaluable lessons about trusting in Him and waiting on His timing. I appreciate your prayers!

Also I have been really convicted about my tithing (or lack thereof) and feel the Lords strong prompting to begin doing so. It is amazing how hard it is to loosen my grasp on the purse strings! Especially when I have so many different bills/fines ect i want to pay off. My paycheck is spent before I get it.

 Oh man! This is so cool I just realized something...I received AIM's monthly prayer newsletter and at the top was part of a verse Malachi 3:6 "For I am the Lord, I do not change". I read and thought oh that is really neat! Then I looked it up, and it goes on to say

 "therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. From the days of your father you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, "How shall we return?" Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, "How have we robbed you?" In your tithes and contributions."

It's funny even though God has been convicting me about tithing this week, when I read that I didn't connect the dots. Sad I know. I think it is because I was really focusing on the I  am the Lord I do not change part. I thought that was really sweet! But that last part didn't hit me till just now as I was writing about tithing! Wow! I think that is pretty cool! God just continues to amaze me! And my lack of perception is pretty amazing too! 

Well that's all for now! 

Psalm 150:6 says "Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD!" 

                                 That's you and me! So lets praise Him!!