Surrendering & Faith

On Easter Sunday I found out my husband is going to be going to Afghanistan for 6 months. At first I was upset and I felt a lot of anger/resentment ..I had to release all of this and communicate to my husband so I wouldn't be weighed down in it. That has helped greatly but then I realized was it helping my husband ..how is he feeling..I need to get out of this "woe is me" and step up to be the wife he has called me to be..On thursday of this last week I went to a women's event called "What's Around Your Neck" and had a missionary from Ecuador come and speak and give her testimony of all the things she was weighed down in and how she realeased it to God. and quoted Matthew 11:28 "Come to me all who labor and are heavy laden..". Just what I needed to hear..I laid it all at his altar and surrendered all to him. I felt lighter and not weighed down anymore..we then could pick a new necklace to put on to signify our yokeness with Christ and I felt God leading me and saying to pick a "heart" necklace to remind me to Trust in him with all my heart. and a song came on during altar call entitled "Be Still" and know that I am God! I found an orange heart necklace from "Back to Africa". that matched my outfit. the Green necklace that I brought was picked by a missonary from the Phillipines and just several days later Josh made a comment that we should do a misson trip there and our friend Michelle can be our tour guide! How cool!
Then I went to an Ewomen Conference in Pensacola the next day with my mom, Kristin , Michelle and Tanya and Kristin' s mom and it was entitled " Passionate Faith". We were able to surrender again to Christ and Nail it to the cross all the things we need to let go of and Candace shared her testimony about coming to Christ and being patients and perservere in prayer for our lost loved ones, and then Lysa said either we can have a break down moment or break through moment..its our choice. Many other speakers taught which were awesome. and concert by Mercy Me..It was so awesome to worship with my mom because Last time I saw them in concert was when she was in the hospital.
I Then started reading my new bible study on sunday called "Tour of Duty"..I will be joining a military wife group on tues nights and the first 2 chapters were on everything that happened the  last 3 days..Matthew 11:28 was mentioned again and Chapter 2 was all on faith! I then talked to Josh and said I will be the wife I need to be ..I will support you and what you are doing is saving lives for other soilders to be able to come back to their wives! How awesome is that..that's just a small glimpse of the big picture. I know God has a plan even in this ..Jeremiah 29:11. I'm so thankful for my eyes to be openened and not be stuck in a pity party..I am Trusting In the Lord and he will provide in every sense of the Word..We will grow closer to him through this trial. Praise God!!!
Today I was looking at the ewomen devotional and it said "Matthew 11:28" as well. How amazing..I guess 3 times a charm!!! "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my Yoke is Easy and my burden is light. "

God Mail

Lately I had been in prayer for my friend who is going through a hard time right now financially due to loss of job and we have a girls christian Conference coming up that I really wanted her to come to called "extraordinary Faith". I had been in prayer that God would open a door for her to go if he wanted her to attend. I went to my mailbox the other morning and there was an envelope that said "ewomen" on it so I opened it up and it said "if you know a girlfriend that is wanting to go but is unable to attend due to finances we are giving away 500 free tickets and call this number to get one"..so Instantly i got tingles all over my body and called the number and got a ticket and was sooooo excited. I called her instantly to tell her what just happened and we both started crying. God is soooo AWESOME!!!!!!!! I can't wait to see how/what God is going to do at this upcoming Conference and will be so GREAT to spend it with 3 of my closest friends and my mom!