Answered Prayers and Music Updates <3

Posted on August 11, 2011 by abbe

Check out my music on NoiseTrade!

Hey everyone! So, I’d like to share a new way for people to help support my missions and biblical studies in Europe. I recently was reminded about an awesome website called www.noisetrade.com. It’s a place where you can search for music that sounds like your favorite bands. It has been a good outlet for independent artists to share their music and get more fans. I recently put my EP The Birthday Party on the website and it is available to download for FREE. There is an option to tip the artist when you go to their page as well. Even just $1 helps. So spread the word to your friends about it and suggest leaving a tip! It would be a great way to support and also a great way to share the music. No pressure, you can also simply download the music free of charge and enjoy :) Also I suggest using this website to find other independent artists and add to your music library! Thank you all for reading, supporting, and praying for me.

On Sinus Infections and Answered Prayers:

The start of last week was a rocky one as we had approximately 400 guests in the castle for a conference. I was not doing to well at functioning due to a lack of sleep and too much on my mind. If you had a chance to read my last blog, I mentioned that I felt like I wasn’t hearing from God yet about whether or not I should stay for this next semester. So with that weighing heavy on my heart, I vented to my good friend Lilla Tuesday night and she offered to work my night shift for me in the coffee shop (what a sweetheart!). So I went to bed early and the next day woke up with a sinus infection. Great… it really just felt like a bad cold, and I assumed I would just push through it and work anyway. Well, as soon as word got around everyone suggested seeing the doctor. Well, not really suggested but demanded. So I went. The small village of Vajta luckily has a doctor’s office which is where I was taken. I sat in the waiting room and pretended not to understand the old village women gossiping as they waited for their number to be called (sometimes I love playing the part of the foreigner). I had Kriszta with me to translate my problem to the nurse. I understand so much, but sometimes I just can’t explain things very well. When it was finally our turn she entered with me and explained the situation. I understood everything they said about me, including the questions of, “Is she Hungarian?” “no, a foreigner. American.” As I listened I just stood there smiling with my cheesy American smile… well, I got put on antibiotics and was told I have to stay in bed for 3 days. I wasn’t allowed to work for the rest of the week either. Really? It seemed rather excessive to me, but sickness is taken very seriously here, unlike America where we go to work anyway as long as we’re not bed ridden. As funny as it was to me, I agreed. The same day I returned to the castle to read this from my sister Amy on facebook, “Guess who just sold a car!” oh my gosh… She sold my car? And here I was freaking out about what God wanted for me, and was He going to provide, and where do I belong, etc, etc. Answered prayer. Confirmation. I’m staying in school :)

God really used my sinus infection to teach me that I am not in control. Striving and pushing is not always the right thing. Sometimes, we just need to be patient and wait on Him for an answer. He gave me so much rest that week. He restored my joy and I finally felt complete peace with where He has me. I am so excited for this next semester and I know that He has amazing plans for it. I’m also excited for wherever He will take me next. In Matthew chapter 6:25-27 Jesus says, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more then food and the body more then clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value then they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to His stature?” he goes on to explain the way that God provides for His children. And in verse 33 says, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all of these things shall be added to you.”

Sometimes when striving in our own strength to bring something to pass, or in trying to create plans based on our own wisdom, God has to allow us to fail. He has to allow us to be broken so that we may realize how much we need to rely on Him. And He then can take our failures and turn them into something glorious. In our weakness and insufficiency He is able to display His great strength, power, and glory. He has so much grace for us. So much that even in our stubborn attempts to do things on our own, He is able to reveal Himself to us and use our attempts for His glory. Of course it would be much easier for us if we learned to submit our plans completely to Him from the start, but we are humans. And humans tend to make the same mistakes over and over again. No wonder the Bible describes us as sheep in desperate need of a shepherd. Luckily we have a shepherd, and in 2 Corinthians 12:9 He says to us, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”

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