Our need is not to prove God's faithfulness but to demonstrate our own, by trusting Him both to determine and to supply our needs according to His will.
John MacArthur
It has been a little while since I have blogged. Not because I have been too busy or because life hasn't permitted me to sit down and write...but merely because I have not been led until now. Todays date is August 18, 2013.
It has been a very busy year in the Spitzack home! Isaiah turned 1 year old yesterday and Adi turned 8 just a week ago on the 13th. Isaiah is reaching those one year milestones. He has 7 teeth, a head full of curly hair and the darkest most beautiful brown eyes you could imagine. He is near walking and we expect him to take off on his own any day now. He says words like da da and ba ba...I keep wondering why ma ma is always the last to come?? LOL. He is the happiest child I have ever known. Always quick to smile, and kiss, and love.
Adi just started 3rd grade at Hampstead Montessori and is busy with the usual crafting, reading, and taking care of her little brother.
We moved to Montgomery AL about a month ago and will be here for the next 11 months as Cole finishes up his Masters degree here at the Air Force school. I don't know much about what he does but I am always happy to support and encourage him in all of his endeavors. Leaving Clarksville was not something I wanted to do...but staying behind while Cole came here was never an option for us as we desire to keep our family together at all cost. Moving here seemed like God's provision for where we were in our lives at the time. After expanding a growing business; again due to God's goodness and plan; we were quite frazzled. Quite honestly...we were just tired.
In one year God had taken our Garage Gym from 20 women to 120 athletes. He said build. So we did. Then in 6 months he took us from 120 to 400 athletes. We were blessed. With that kind of growth comes a lot of work. When the call is great and the fields need to be plowed you don't have time to ask questions. You roll up your sleeves, wipe the sweat off your brow, and you dig and dig and dig until God says Rest. In two weeks time frame we had the Grand Opening of our new building and we welcomed our son Isaiah into the World and into our Family.
When the proposition of Cole's school came into the picture I was more than hesitant. How was I to leave all that we had worked so hard for? All of our friends? Our home? Over time God softened my heart and He showed me that this was our year to Rest. We were at a breaking point and we desperately needed God to intervene and to restore us.
Isaiah 40:28- 31 “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
Two weeks before our move to AL we took a trip to Israel. It was an unbelievable trip. My prayer for that trip was that God would open me up. That He would reveal to me all that I was missing, things I had overlooked, and that He would show Himself to me in ways that I had never seen before. I prayed for Him to give me His eyes. I prayed that I could die to self and that I would be humbled yet again by His majesty and His mercy.
So we went to Israel. We moved to Montgomery. And then....
We got Pregnant!!
I learned that instead of always asking God to show me His faithfulness I just need to be Faithful myself. I read a quote somewhere awhile back that said something along the lines of A wife that is 85% faithful isn't faithful at all...we must be 100% faithful with our Lord. God never stopped caring and He never stopped providing. You know...His timing truly is perfect. I can enjoy this pregnancy knowing that all things are taken care of and knowing that NOW is the time. If I am truly honest I can would tell you that I truly never thought I would feel life inside me again. Tuesday at our midwife appointment I heard our child's heartbeat inside me. Do you know how I delighted in that moment? Can you imagine the joy that swept over me and the way my heart felt in that moment? Has there ever been a more miraculous or beautiful sound??
All year God has been saying something to me...
ABIDE IN ME.
God wants me to abide in Him. To dwell in Him. To be complete in Him.
Apart from Him I can do nothing. It is Him in me that allows me to truly live.
Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. John 15: 4-11
As I close out today...
I ask for your continued prayer over our family.
Pray for our Community.
God has been so Faithful. I am truly overwhelmed by His goodness.
"I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength."
Ephesians 1: 16-19
12 Weeks Pregnant
I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.
John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman
You have trusted Him in a few things, and He has not failed you. Trust Him now for everything, and see if He does not do for you exceeding abundantly above all that you could ever have asked or thought, not according to your power or capacity, but according to His own mighty power, that will work in you all the good pleasure of His most blessed will. You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?
Hannah Whitall Smith
Hannah Whitall Smith
