Hebrews 10:23 says, "Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful."

I'll post some pictures of Jeseca this week so you can see just how amazing it is that she is still alive. It can only be God. There is certainly no question in our minds that He is at work. And something great has begun to happen...the bowling ball in her liver has started to soften. In fact, as of today there is a small depression where there was once a peak. What we have hoped for may finally be happening! It's hard to tell for me since her eye has gotten so bad, but like Jeseca said today, "If God heals my liver, won't He also heal my eye?" That's our hope.

We watched Facing the Giants last night. What a great message. It's all about placing our hope in God, who does the impossible in the lives of people who trust Him. One of the scenes shows a pastor speaking with the team's head coach, delivering a message of hope at just the right time. The pastor later offered the following parable:

"There were two farmers who prayed for rain. The first prayed and waited for the rain to come. The second finished his prayer and immediately went out to till the field in preparation for the rain. Of the two, which one truly believed God would deliver? Which of these are you? Are you waiting for rain, or preparing for when it comes?"

Isn't that great? Which one are you? Which one am I? It really struck a cord within me.

Six years ago Jeseca and I attended a church service where we were challenged to pray and listen for an audible word from the Lord on the direction He wanted to take us. I walked away without so much as a "hello," but Jeseca had an actual conversation with God (within her), with details about a future trip for the two of us to Russia and Egypt in what she believes will be a dangerous mission to evangelize. We have held onto the idea of that trip ever since, knowing that God never lies. It has given us hope in some of our darkest hours.

The time has come, at least as I feel it in my heart, to begin "preparing for the rain." God has been training us to let go of this life, to not fear death. Maybe we're there, maybe not. Either way, we remain ever hopeful that our God will fulfill His promise and restore Jeseca's health.

Now, how my golf game factors into that sort of trip is beyond me. At its core, the trip will be about taking ground from the enemy, so I know we're going to come up against some danger. So while I'm tilling the field I'm gonna take some hard-core self-defense training...just in case. JG

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