Quiet Time lessons...

Here is an excerpt from something I wrote to my mil. I just wanted to share it here, to further explain how we are feeling. The magnitude of what God is doing, can not necessarily be described. All of last week's Bible Study was on being obedient to God, it was like it was written specifically for me for this time. Then God confirmed His will for us to go forward, and now this week's lesson has been on surrendering control of our lives to God. The title of the lesson that I am referring to below is called God Often Works in Way We Don't Understand. Once again, I feel like this lesson was written just for me!

Here are some things that wowed me this morning in my quiet time.

*God's ways often don't make sense in human terms.
*Why do God's ways at times seem unreasonable or even foolish to people?
*God wants us to surrender everything to Him and allow Him to direct and control our lives.
*When God is in charge, He does things differently that we would.
*The miracles of Jesus often demonstrate that God's power far exceeds man's best efforts.
*When we choose to trust God even when we don't understand what He is doing, we will find Him faithful to meet our needs in every situation.

I totally relate to what she was saying, because that is exactly where we are at. We are surrendering everything to Him. We feel like we are riding a wave of belief in God that we never anticipated being on. Matt stated in our application to the Adoption Outreach that he has never felt as close to God as he does now. We can not explain it any other way. God is doing something unbelievable in our lives. This isn't about us!! We talked about adoption many different times throughout our marriage, but it is just like all of a sudden God said, "Will you trust me with this right now?" We struggled with what God was asking us to do over the past few weeks. He has done some amazing things within our hearts. We do covet your prayers and are so grateful for your willingness to support us in that way. It means a ton! We truly are overwhelmed with what God is doing in our lives, and the lives of our children through this adoption process. He is revealing Himself to us and through us, and we are humbled.