On Sunday morning after the service, I was meandering towards the coat rack for my coat when a friend came up to me. Now this lady and her family are fairly "new" (as in, they came to church within the last three years or so) but she and I really clicked and I always enjoy talking with her. After chit-chatting about the previous evening's Father/Daughter Banquet, somehow we got talking about my upcoming trip. She looked me straight in the eye and said, "Now are you sure about this whole thing?" I replied in the affirmative and we proceeded to talk for the next twenty minutes before her daughter came to get her. But the blessing here was just the encouragement she was to my heart! She listened as I shared what the Lord was doing (she also did this at a Memorial Day picnic last year while I told her all the blessings of how the first trip came together!) and then buoyed me up in encouragement.
It doesn't stop there though. A church member called the church office on Monday and out of the blue asked me where I was going next for a missions trip. When I said "Thailand", this church member encouraged me as well and even took time tonight after church to talk with me and find out a few more details!
This is just skimming the top. Countless people in my church family have shown their interest and encouragement to me, and I am so thankful. I get to be the one who goes, but it's only because dear friends like these are behind praying for me.
As I look to what God is doing in the future months, I am reminded that nothing is accomplished without prayer. Even though I get to be the one taking each step, I know that these faithful people praying are having fruit abound to their account.
"Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account."
Philippians 4:17
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