God is amazing! And He is REAL!

God is amazing and HE is with me - I am on a new path – I am on God’s path

During my time on the Logos Hope, I have been coming closer to God than I have ever been and this created a desire in me to get to know Him more. There has been one verse in the Bible that really caught my attention and it continues to speak to me every day:

“You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul,                                                                            all your mind and all your strength.” Mark 12:29

Along with the verses Proverbs 3:5

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, do not depend on your own understanding.                                                                  Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”

Jeremiah 29:11 

    “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you,” says the Lord. I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”      

All of these verses speak to me so strongly, that I can’t even describe how much comfort they do give me. I am calm and I feel peaceful. Some of you know me well enough to know that I tend to worry much in life, decision making is not my strength, but  now I know that I am not making decisions on my own anymore. I feel such a peace inside me that all worries and anxiety that rise, can be conquered and overcome with the promise of God being with me and guiding me in my future.

Some of you my friends, who have not met Jesus for yourself yet, might feel that you are not able to grasp what I am talking about and what I am on about…. Well, I would love to show you how God is at work within me and I am certain that HE has great plans for my life in 2012 and beyond.

I have decided to return to New Zealand earlier and will be home on the 6^th of November this year. My house will be on the market for sale before Xmas and I trust in the Lord that He will show me my next move. I trust that God has got open doors prepared for me.

I can see some of your faces dropping but I pray that you understand and support me with your friendship for the future.  I used to say “who knows what the future will hold?”- now I know God knows. I am not certain just yet, where my path will lead me to but I want to be open to God’s guidance as He knows me better than I know myself - some of you smile: this is not hard :o) as some of you I felt know me better than I do myself sometimes. I trust though, that God knows my past, my presence and my future. My prayer request is that I WILL depend on him and not on my own strength and understanding and that my eyes will be opened and my heart softened to see his plans for my future.

I love you all and I thank you for keeping reading my travel blogs. I love receiving emails or messages and I hope you are very well and happy.

Love from Uganda

                    Barbara