Brothers & Sisters in Jesus/Family & Friends,
Greetings in the name of Jesus. I hope you have had a blessed month and that you are in good health and encouraged in the Lord.
I continue to work in the US with the intention that the Lord will look upon my situation and respond by speeding up the process of getting finances in good order to live and do ministry in Brazil without any lack and being facilitated to do what He has for us to do there. I appreciate your prayers for us while I am here living as a workman in the US work world.
In my relationship with the Lord, I have seen many examples of the Lord’s intervention to do things that made me able to do His will and be in His will. He has done that for me many times. But while I was in Brazil, that sense of destiny, that sense of certainty that the Lord would operate and cause things to work together seemed to disappear. At the time that it was most important for me to see Jesus intervene and help, it was as if that sense of certainty of being in the Lord’s will and purpose dried up.
I have waited for the Lord to intervene and open some way for things to come together and work. And for many years, I saw Him do that again and again. But while I was in Brazil, that just did not happen. That experience left me feeling dulled in my relationship with the Lord and wondering why I had gone for the longest time ever without seeing the Lord intervene and open some door that would cause things to come together and make sense. It has been quite confusing and hard to understand.
Now here I am in the US working. And I still can’t say that the Lord has brought me back to that sense of destiny and calling yet. Working the job I am working, it could take some years to get in the position to go again and live and remain in Brazil. But I don’t think that would be the Lord’s will. I believe that if the Lord restores me to the sense of calling and destiny He kept me in for many years, that with it I will find some open door or some opportunity that brings everything together very quickly so that I can return home to Brazil. So I ask that you pray for me about this. It really has been a major challenge and hardship to go through, but by the grace of God, this is not the end. So please pray with me for this because I really do need to be restored in this way.
I think that it may be from the Lord to promote the book I wrote as a means of speeding up this process of establishing our financial base. Please pray that the Lord will give me wisdom and certainty about whether the book Trusting Relationship is a means He has in mind for speeding up the process of having finances in good order, and if it is, how He wants me to do it.
Thank you all for your ongoing prayers and help. Be blessed.
We love you in Jesus.
Joseph, with Cristina & Hadassa
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