Today has been very interesting.
This morning, I got a call from JD—a former boss I haven’t spoken to in years. He left a message, saying he wanted to let me know about a job opportunity at his company that he thought I’d be interested in.
I was so glad I didn’t pick up the phone right away. I needed a moment to pray before calling him back. I left a message in return, but I haven’t heard from him yet.
At first, my gut instinct was “This is a test! FLEE from the enemy and this temptation!”
But then…
JR (an old friend from Hope) called me this afternoon. Guess why?
She has a couple of friends who own a bakery in Fuquay and desperately need reliable employees. She heard from her mom, who had heard from Marteen that we weren’t working, so when her friends expressed the need, she thought of us.
Two job opportunities from two people we haven’t heard from in years—on the same day?? Now I’m really wondering…
Is this God’s provision? Or is it still a ploy from the enemy to derail us from the path God has set us on?
We’re at the end of our own resources. We’ve been praying for the Lord’s direction.
Is this His direction? Or is this the classic "boat and helicopter" in the flood story—the rescue we prayed for but are hesitant to take? I don’t want to get to the end of the month, with nothing left, and wish I had taken one of these jobs.
At the same time, God said HE would take care of us. He asked us to trust Him. It would be so easy for me to fall back into my old patterns—relying on my own abilities instead of waiting for Him.
I talked with KM and CB about it.
KM encouraged us to look into these opportunities closely and trust that God would make it really clear when we did.
CB felt I needed to follow Tom’s lead—if he didn’t feel led to take a job, I shouldn’t either. We needed to stay united in whatever we did.
After that conversation, Tom was feeling really low. He felt attacked—like he had completely messed up and led us down the wrong path. I told him we needed to go to the Word and see what God says about it.
Tom opened to Colossians 2:6-8:
"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ."
Every passage we read encouraged us to have faith, to trust, to follow Jesus fully, and not to conform to the world’s way of doing things.
So now what?
We’re going to P and L’s home group tonight.
On Saturday, I had this sudden urge… desire… compulsion—I don’t even know what to call it—but I felt strongly that we needed to go to their group this week.
I mentioned it to KM on Monday, and she told me that P and L had just met with her that morning to share something amazing—
They’ve moved their group out from under Hope Chapel’s umbrella so they can be free to “go with the Spirit”!
How cool is that?
I’m excited to see what God does tonight.
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