Here is the latest. I have hesitated sharing much of this online because we hadn't told all the people here of our pending plans, but now that the "cat is out of the bag" so to speak it won't be a problem.
About the beginning of October the Lord began speaking to Daniel and I about moving.... something we didn't think would ever happen. We have been living here in Santa Ynez for 9 years now and had always planned that we would live here forever because it was where the Lord has called us and the things he called us here to do didn't seem to be happening very quickly. We assumed it might take the rest of our lives to truly see all that He had put in our hearts to see here in the SY valley. However, the Lord has been stirring our hearts. When Daniel heard from the Lord that He is moving us it took him some time to process that, mostly because we are in the midst of so many other life changing things right now, it didn't seem possible that He would move us right now. As we prayed and prayed and prayed and asked Him over a few weeks time it became clear to both of us that that is exactly what He was saying.
So here we are in the midst of some of the craziest health issues we have ever faced and as we ask the Lord about all this he says, "it's time to move". It's almost like He isn't answering us on purpose ;o) So, we are moving to Bend Oregon sometime in the New Year. Daniel's heart is to set up a 24/7 house of prayer. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a place where worship and prayer goes on constantly, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. There are many of these places around the world now and we feel like it is something the Lord is doing in the earth that will usher in the presence of the Lord in greater measure. We are praying that we will begin to see signs and wonders in these houses of prayer, including great grace to see the lost saved, the sick healed and the saved to grow deeper in their walk with the Lord.
For those of you who don't know, my parents and both brothers and their families all live in the Bend/ Central Oregon area so we will be very very close to my family again which is a huge blessing. The boys are looking forward to being near cousins and my parents and I am looking forward to being an Oregonian again.
One reason I wanted to share all this with you all is that we realize the importance of starting a house of prayer like this. It doesn't happen over night, it isn't easy, and it isn't without some resistance from the enemy. We feel like it is very important that we raise support. Now, I don't mean financial support, but prayer support. Our goal is to get at least 100 people that would covenant to pray for us as we venture out in this new journey. If we have learned anything in this last season it is that we get really "slammed" by the enemy when we don't have the prayer support behind us. If we had at least 100 people who would covenant to pray for us once a day I know we would go much further, much faster than we would if we tried to do this on our own. Please consider covenanting with us in this way. We would love it if the Lord put this on your heart if you would email us and let us know so that we can pray for you as you pray for us.
Also, I have a surgery date. I am tentatively scheduled for January 7th to have the surgery. Again, I am puzzled by the Lord's timing. We had hoped to be moving at that time, and done with surgery before Christmas, but the Lord planned otherwise. It's completely out of our hands. In some ways Daniel and I are sitting back and saying there is absolutely nothing we can do to "hurry" this process up at all. We can't make any of this happen faster, so we are sitting back and relinquishing all control to Him. He showed me a while ago that this is like a dance. We are dancing with Him. Even though we aren't sure which direction He will turn next, we just have to let Him spin us and twirl us and dance us toward the next thing. When we try to take over we just mess things up and step on toes.....
So, we wait and we dance.
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