It is hard to believe that it is Wednesday of the second week of our time in New Jersey. We have had an amazing time. How wonderful it is to be a part of another great team. So much is being accomplished for the two families we are serving. There have been challenges and set backs but God's plan in perfect.
We started the morning with prayers before breakfast and it was my day to lead devotions after breakfast. The lesson I chose was from Anne Graham Lotz book "Fixing My Eyes on Jesus". The date was for July 29 called "Sticking Out All Over".
The Bible verse was 2 Thessalonians 1: 11 - 12. Paul, Silas and Timothy are encouraging the Thessalonians and these are the closing verses of the chapter. "And so we keep on praying for you, that our God will make you worthy of the life to which he called you. And we pray that God, by his power, will fulfill all your good intentions and faithful deeds. Then everyone will give honor to the name of our Lord Jesus because of you, and you will be honored along with him. This is all made possible because of the undeserved favor of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ." (NLT)
The footnote of the NLT Bible shares that "as Christians, our calling from God is to become like Christ. This is a gradual, lifelong process that will be completed when we see Christ face to face. To be 'worthy' of this calling means to want to do what is right and good (as Christ would). We aren't perfect yet, but we're moving in that direction as God works in us."
Anne shares a story about a pastor who is asking for people to invite Jesus into their hearts. There is a little boy who can't understand how that is going to work out because he is a litttle boy and Jesus is a man. The little boy is concerned because if Jesus comes into his heart "He'll be sticking out all over!" The pastor says that is right. If we yield our life to the Lord and His will then He will be sticking out all over.
So closing in prayer this morning I prayed that Jesus would be sticking out all over in our day. In our work, in our words and in God's plan for our day. I prayed that we remember that we may have a plan for how our day would go and what we may want to complete in the few days that we have left but God's plan may be different.
How quickly our team needed to remember these words as our day changed very quickly when the inspector came. We thought we would be able to begin installing drywall by the end of the week but we will not. We needed to take a step back and repair some things that were not completed earlier by another group. This is a new house for DRS. We thought things were completed that were not.
Quickly we realized that this step back was so needed. The home will be much better because of our step back. Thank you Lord for your plan....it is perfect!
Here are some photos from last Friday, Monday and Today:
Brian is taking down drywall.
Lorna and I are installing trays along the edge before we install the insulation so air movement will move up the rafters and into the attic.
Lorna and I have moved into the kitchen to install insulation. Do you like our handy drywall holding device?
Paul, our team leader is caulking around the door casing before he installs the T-111 to the back side of the home to give the house new siding.
Note: Anne only used verse 12 in her message, I chose 11 and 12.
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