I Won't be Homeless!

Yes, you read that right! I will not be homeless while living in Tennessee for the summer! Praise God! I received a facebook message last night from the couple I stayed with last year offering to host me again this year. I love this couple so much and was so bummed when I heard that it wouldn't work out for me to stay with them again.  This couple is awesome, and I kind of adopted them as my Tennessee Grandparents. I have been praying for God to provide me with a great host family, wishing that I could stay with this couple again, but thinking it wasn't possible. He has taught me several things through the process of finding housing, the first is that I am a control freak (I knew this already, I just got slapped in the face as to how bad of a control freak I am) and that by trying to control everything, I was trying to tell God what to do, what I thought I deserved, and what to give me. Read Romans 8:18-30 which talks about how we do not know how to pray as we ought, the Spirit interceding for us with "groaning too deep for words" and God working everything together for good. Once I gave up (mostly, I'm not perfect!) wanting to control everything, I realized what He was trying to teach me through the process of finding a host family! The second thing He was teaching me is that He was using me at my workplace; I have been praying for God to use me and shine through me to the ladies I work with. Here is how one of my conversations with one of my co-workers last week: "So, how many days left?" "17!" "Do you have a place to live yet?" "nope!" "why don't you seem worried about that?"  "Well, I am kind of worried. I would be lying if I said I wasn't! But there isn't anything thing I can do but pray, wait and trust God to provide for me." *insert weird look here* "welp... more power to ya!" then she left the room. God has used what I saw as a problem and used it to reveal part of who He is, my faith in Him and the relationship I have with Him to my co-workers! While it's not telling them about my relationship with Him, it is showing them what my relationship with Him looks like and I think may be just as important as telling them about my relationship with Him. Read James 2:14-26, it talks about how faith without works is dead. I am grateful that it took up until 2 weeks before I left to find housing. Why? Because He taught me that 1. He knows better than I do what I need. 2. The Spirit intercedes on my behalf because I do not know how to pray as I should. And 3. Being a light does not necessarily mean sharing my faith, living it out is just as important!

Praise God for the Beautiful Things He is doing!