the Journey....

I don't know anyone who thinks that they have enough faith. I know that I always feel like I could use a little more. Maybe it's because I have a mind that seems naturally directed by logic, numbers and formulas. Maybe it's because I am a male... convinced that I can figure out just about anything on my own. Or maybe it is just because I choose to be in control even when I know that I should let go.

This journey of going into fulltime ministry as the Campus Pastor for the Toccoa Campus has been an amazing ride so far (and we haven't even had our first service yet!). I remember so clearly that one day as I was praying trying to figure out whether to take this step when God taught me something huge. I was trying to figure out how to make this job change, move from Seneca to Toccoa, etc "work." There were alot more questions than answers. For instance...Do we buy a house and move right away? Do we wait until the house sells to move? Alot of big questions that I didn't know the answer to. What God taught me that day was that He was not going to ALLOW me to know the answers to all the questions. For me to make the move in to this job, God was going to REQUIRE my faith....not just ask for it. So, Amy and I decided that we were going to make a huge step in faith and buy a house in Toccoa and move as soon as we could.

Now for the rest of the story....
We bought our house in Toccoa without selling our house in Seneca. Following my last day at my former job and before my first day at Foothills, Amy and I took a short vacation. When we returned, one of our rental houses (that was supposed to be purchased by the renters) was abandoned by the renters leaving us with a large extra house payment. That gave us 2 house payments for the month of July....3 house payments coming Aug 1 when we started paying for the new house in Toccoa. I was FREAKIN OUT! 3 PAYMENTS!!!! AAAAARGGGGH! But God is good. He immediately brought us a renter for the abandoned house in the middle of July....So we only had to make 1/2 a payment on that house. Then last week, we got a sales contract on our house in Seneca with a months worth of rent for Sept until the loan closes. For those keeping score....in this whole process we have only had to make 2 house payments for ONE month (August)! God is amazing! We had no idea how God was going to work this out.....but he did. The move required our faith....God has taken care of the rest....and HE WILL CONTINUE TO.