With silence comes rest....
Exodus 33:14--My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.
It never ceases to amaze me how God speaks so clearly to me through His Word each day, giving me just the right message that I need to hear. Right when I'm talking about savoring silence rather than fretting through it, I turn the page in my Women of Faith Bible study to a chapter called, "Discovering the Rest of God".
The other day, I worked through a chapter called "God as Multiplier". It had me think through times in my life when God took something small that I had to offer and multiplied it. I remembered financial examples (like the money for our housing in Colombia both times actually going toward helping a missionary who actually lived in the apartment, or supporting Julian for a few months, which actually supported the missionary that he lived with.). Then it went on to spiritual examples, and all I could really think of was teaching Bible study, because if each lady in the study is deeply affected and drawn closer to Christ, then her whole family is affected, along with all of those that she touches throughout her day. However, God then gave me another example this very week. For the third time now, someone read my book and told me they immediately went out and got The Power of a Praying Wife after reading it. By writing and publishing my own story, now at least three other marriages and families are being changed. My personal agenda for that book was for the next person grieving a failed adoption to not have to feel they grieved alone. I knew that lonely place and didn't wish it on anyone. Looks like God had more in mind on how to use that book than I did.
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