BIG BIG BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!

So for all my friends who don't know, I just received my Work Authorization Card in the mail. It means I can now legaly work in the US!!!! Its almost like a Greencard, except that it doesn't give me permenant residency and it only lasts for a year, but by then I'll have my Greencard so praise God!!! Seriousely not to sound cliche but it's really thanks to God. We have been in the system to get our Greencards for 8 years now. When we finally entered the last step, we were told just 6 months left, but then the whole system backed up and we were basically sitting dead in the water for 8 months. At that point I almost fell into depression, but God brought along a really good friend to teach me about patience, persistence, and perserverance. I pressed through and started interceeding again for the Greencard. My friend also started interceeding, and unbeknownst to us, several other people were also praying hard this last week for the Greencard. Last night at GC, I laid it on the alter before God and gave it into His hands. And when I got home, there it(my WAC, not my Greencard) was.

Now, for me this is miraculous. I have been in a place the last year or so where everything has been an uphill battle. Prayer, worship, Bible study, church, counceling, everything just seemed to be flowing against me, no matter how hard I pressed in. I had resigned myself to the fact that the rest of my Christian walk would be like this and had decided to grit my teeth and endure life, but now it seems that after all this uphill pressing, I have finally made it to the Mountain Top. I am reminded that "the Lord taketh away" but that He also "giveth". So many times it feels to me like life is sucking the Holy Spirit out of my faster than God is filling me, and that God just closes doors but doesn's open any new ones. But the Bible says that God has given us "life and life more abundantly" and that "rivers of living water" will flow up from within us, and that "he who drinks of this water will never again be thirsty". We are here on earth not to survive but to thrive, because greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world. I thought I'd wrap up with one of my favorite quotes:

"When God is all you desire, you will never be disappointed."

-Donna Lasit