No More Backup Plans Needed!!

God has turned my life topsy-turvy as of late. He really has been getting my attention and and turning my life upside down (maybe it's right side up!). God is taking me to places I have never been before and revealing things to me that I need to change in my life. He is molding me into more of Him and less of the world.
In this journey He has been taking me on, I have continued to seek him with a fervor I have never had before. Of course at the same speed God is revealing new things to me, there Satan appears ready to sabotage what I am learning. Speaking in my ear trying to get me to believe lies!
As some of you know my hubby and I are going to Kenya next month with International Christian Resources. While there we will be participating in medical clinics and reaching the unreached and hopeless with the Gospel. I am very excited about this trip because, this is the first international trip my husband has gone on, and this is the first international trip we will have gone on together. I have prayed for many years for God to open the door for my husband and I to be on the mission field together.
Fundraising is a very difficult task and rather exhausting, especially when you have double the money to raise. I have shared in past blog posts about obedience, faith, and trust. These have never meant more to than they do today. My husband and I have only raised enough money for "almost" one of us to go on the trip to Kenya. We leave in almost exactly one month. We need a miracle in order for both of us to be able to go on the missions trip!!!!
I am trusting God for that miracle!!! Until yesterday, I could not say that truthfully. Until yesterday I had a backup plan in the back of my head. Until yesterday the backup plan would have been put into effect soon. But, there is no more backup plan, the backup plan is not needed. Not because we have the money, no we still need a miracle. But, because I am trusting God FULLY for that miracle!!!
God showed me yesterday that I cannot have a backup plan, because if I do I am not trusting Him fully and completely! In Genesis 12 when God tells Abraham to take his family and leave Haran, he does not question God. Abraham left and did what God told him to do, and he had no backup plan to fall onto "just in case". In Genesis 15:6, "And he [Abram] believed in (trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness (right standing with God)." (Amplified version) Abraham did not say to God, "Now wait a minute let me formulate a what if, just in case you don't give me a child." He just trusted and relied on God's word, and God's promise to him that Sarah would conceive.
I was lead to a passage in 1st Corinthians yesterday, when I found the scripture in chapter two I had at some point previously circled it and written my name above verse nine. "But, on the contrary, as the scripture says , What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed]." (Amplified version)
As I further cross-referenced Genesis 15:6, I found a nugget of scripture in Romans that really cemented what I felt God was trying to show me. "No unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question) concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God. Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to what He had promised. That is why his faith was credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God). Romans 4:20-22 (Amplified version)
I have "The Everyday Life Bible", it features notes and commentary by Joyce Meyer. On the same page that Romans 4:20-22 appears Joyce comments by saying, "Look beyond where you are and see with the eyes of faith, believing God for even the impossible!". That got to me when I read it! Was I seeing with the eyes of faith? Was I believing God for even the impossible? No! I had a backup plan. Either my husband, or myself would stay behind and not go to Kenya.
Isaiah 44;20 says, "That kind of man feeds on ashes [and finds his satisfaction in ashes]! A deluded mind has led him astray, so that he cannot release and save himself, or ask, Is not [this thing I am holding], in my right hand a lie?" (Amplified version) Yes, that thing I was holding in my right hand was a lie. And, that thing called "control" is a lie, and I was hanging on to it.
I am standing on faith, and relying on God to come through for my husband and I; He will provide a miracle and we will BOTH go to Kenya. If you are waiting on God today for a miracle, I encourage you to know that if you completely surrender to Him, and stand on faith you will receive that miracle you are waiting on. Trust on, rely on, and have faith in our almighty God.