Your Daddy in Heaven Cancels Debts!!!!

6-9"This is the kind of fast day I'm after: to break the chains of injustice, get rid of exploitation in the workplace, free the oppressed, cancel debts. What I'm interested in seeing you do is: sharing your food with the hungry, inviting the homeless poor into your homes, putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad, being available to your own families. Do this and the lights will turn on, and your lives will turn around at once. Your righteousness will pave your way. The God of glory will secure your passage. Then when you pray, God will answer. You'll call out for help and I'll say, 'Here I am.'
Isaiah 58:6-9 (the message version)

I really love Isaiah 58. There is so much richness in the chapter, and I could go line per line and get miles out of it all.  God is so good! He's into breaking through injustice! He's into getting rid of exploitation in the workplace! He's into freeing the oppressed! And one of the best parts...HE"S IN TO CANCELLING DEBTS!!!!!
So here's my testimony about cancelling debts!
    A while back someone borrowed a large sum of money from me. I knew this family really needed the money, and I didn't mind helping out. Well, after some time went by, and the debt had not been repayed, I felt like God was saying "just forgive the debt, and move on..."  So, when I knew this was for sure what God was saying, I called the family up and told them!
   A few months went by, and now it was coming to the time when I was getting ready for Guatemala. I knew the only bills I would have in Guatemala are my own debts that I have been paying off for years.  I have 3 different payments monthly. On the phone with my dad one day I told my him about them. Well, guess what?! My dad decided pay one of these debts completely off !!! My daddy in heaven is using my earthly father to show his word in action!!!! I love it! God is sooooooooo good! HE CANCELS DEBTS!

Family has been asking for any easy way to donate while I'm in Guatemala. So here it is:

Pearl of Great Price

   ⁴⁴ “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

⁴⁵ “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, ⁴⁶ who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.
                                                                                                             Matthew 13:44 &45


I sit in my little St. Louis apartment tonight full of almost completely bare walls, closets, and shelves...but a heart full of joy.  Yesterday, I had an open house where I sold my furniture, clothes, artwork, and jewelry to friends and family.  It turned out better than I could have hoped. One by one, each person came and gave blessings, donations, and love with each purchase... and today I sit a grateful woman.

Thank you Lord for these precious relationships that you have given me,
Thank you God that I go from St. Louis with blessing and favor from friends and family
and...

Thank you God for the pearl of great price, and that no matter how bare my walls are...it's gonna be worth it all!

A Polished Arrow

¹ Listen to me, you islands;
   hear this, you distant nations:
Before I was born the LORD called me;
   from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.
² He made my mouth like a sharpened sword,
   in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me into a polished arrow
   and concealed me in his quiver. ³ He said to me, “You are my servant,
   Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.”
⁴ But I said, “I have labored in vain;
   I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the LORD’s hand,
   and my reward is with my God.”
Isaiah 49:1-4

I came upon this verse today as I was sitting before the Lord and reminding myself of the words God has spoken to me to prepare me to go to Guatemala. In the house of prayer today, I was also reminded of the prophetic word that a group of us got in Kansas City in August that went along with this Isaiah 49 and 2 King 13:17. It was a word about being arrows and being shot out the east door/window. So we got shot out, literally ...and got given an arrow to shoot out the east door. The arrow was in my hands and I threw it as hard as I could to signify God shooting me and the group out into our destinies!!! It's funny that only a couple months later I am making plans to be shot out into Guatemala for the rest of my life!

My thoughts are not your thoughts!

Today God gave me Isaiah 55. so I prayed through it!---

Come all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money come, buy, and eat!....

verse3-Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you.

verse 6 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.

verse 8- "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways"- declares the Lord.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

verse 12- You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.

Thank you Lord! I will go with joy and be led forth in peace! Your ways are greater and higher! I come to you empty handed and you will give me food and water! I call on you while you are near!

Today was my last day at the hospital. I walked in the front door reflecting on the past year, and all I've learned. Such a myriad of emotions rolled over me as I confronted the reality of leaving my good paying  registered nurse job.  In our morning meeting, I looked at the faces I had come to know and love, and would never see again... Then, my boss anounced the news...that my co-workers would be raising support to give to me as a gift to help send me to Guatemala! I could not hardly contain my excitement and my gratitude! What a supportive group of people! This is yet another confirmation that God is for me, and in this thing! God is in this! HE does more than I could ask for or think! Wow!