Moment of authenticity

There are few things in this life that will bring you to your knees like asking for financial support from others. Part of this trip is fundraising, doing yard work for donations, writing support letters, going before the congregation--

This year we have also helped sell snacks at upward basketball practices, hosted a spaghetti dinner fundraiser, and we intend to do more before June comes to a close.

And yet, even knowing that we are doing what we can, even knowing that God is in control, there is something core-rattling to look at a bank account and recognize the deficit.

So we turn to prayer.

And here's where I want to confess--it's often like that for me. I do what I can, I remind myself that God is in control, I look at the numbers...and then I pray. Not to say that we haven't been praying all along, beseeching God for His grace to pour down on us in the form of monetary donations. But as the due date looms closer, the prayers seem more urgent. More often. More desperate.

And we are desperate. Not for finances necessarily, but for the Spirit of the living God to work in us and through us in the weeks to come. We cannot do this alone. We cannot just look to a faraway God who runs the world. We cannot just keep staring at the challenge ahead. We need to I need to come before the Lord, in humility and desperation, to ask Him to work as we seek to serve Him.

And more than financial support, would our team find prayer supporters who will go before God on our behalf, asking the same.

--Monica