Walk by faith

Well I am eating brownie batter at almsot 12 o'clock midnight here in Guam....

I am really bad about keeping up with this blog. I want to continue to update and tell whats happenin' here, where America's Day begins....

I am so thankful we found a church home. What an answer to prayer! I love the people there and the girls have found some friends that they connect with. I am looking forward to growing and serving with this body of believers.
One other thing that I had prayed for was a mentor. I so badly and desparately want a woman in my life that has walked with the Lord longer than I to pray with me and to listen to me blab about my relationship with the Lord and to give me Godly wisdom....I haven't found one yet but continue to pray for one to come...maybe from the church?

I really had an emotionally exhausting day today. I feel so compassionate about the lost and I physically feel the heartbreak that I am sure God feels as His people turn and stray away from Him. I was once lost and so I know how it was to run my "own" life and to believe the lies of the enemy, thinking that I was in control....but praise be to the Lord that I am saved only by His grace and mercy....

I guess I am writing this because I have hung out and conversed with people just recently who do not know the Lord. Sad to say, I have not really gotten out much since being here and when I do it is to take the kids to church-related activities where most of the people there are saved....so to be back into the "world" so to speak was somewhat of a shock that people still think and believe the devil's lies...but again, I was there at one time and so I believed the tricks, schemes, and deception of the enemy too. I wonder to myself why and how God can allow such evil and atrocity in this world? He is all-knowing...He knows our hearts...each and every "good" and evil person's heart He knows. He knows our thoughts before we think them. So why Lord....why let evil still reign on this Earth?

The Lord today reminded me of Romans 8:28..."All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." And so I stand on His word and His word alone.....I believe, I have hope, through the nastiness that this world can bring and has recently been brought into reality again for me.....I have faith and I will walk by faith and not by sight.....