an exciting email for hope's refuge!

hi all. its 1:27am and i should be going to sleep. as you could probably tell from my last message, things have been a bit stressful with spiritual warfare. well, life is a bit more stressful with finances and moving and such. but the Lord is so good to remind me and encourage me that He is the Lord of All creations and the Lord that provides what we need when we need it and gives us glimpses of the future and even visions of our eternity in heaven. how amazing is our Lord?! here is one example: today - bud came home from work and we sit down and talk about things regarding to our financial status, his job, our up and coming move to hong kong island and our last month here in fanling. i got a bit discouraged and i could tell he was too. so we prayed. just a simple prayer that the Lord would provide and keep our Faith in Him strong. after we prayed, we went into the living room and i checked my email and when i checked one of my accounts, my daily bible verse for the day was:

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened."
~ matthew 7:7-8

now, i don't want to be over-spiritual about things and know that i tend to steer away from participating in the "flip through the bible and let your finger land on a random verse" technique. but sometimes, i believe the Lord does use things like that to get our attention because He is a loving God. although they are not so random when its from God! anyway, so that was one way the Lord lifted my spirits and got me more focused and able to be soothed by His comforting arms.

the second way the Lord lifted my spirits was through an email. a few days ago, i emailed Heartbeat International as Focus on the Family had encouraged me to. so as i was checking my email and about to sign off for the night, as soon as i refreshed my page there was a new email. i checked it and it was from Heartbeat International. here are some excerpts from the email:

"Also, if you are interested, you could affiliate with Heartbeat. This would allow you to receive our Pulse Newsletter and it would include your center in Worldwide Directory of pregnancy resource centers. We would waive the international affiliation fee and allow you to join at no cost..."

"...As you can imagine, we don’t have too many contacts in China. Do you believe you’ll be able to start and openly operate a pregnancy center there? Is Hong Kong open to this sort of work or is it discouraged? I’d like to learn more about your experience there if you are willing to write back. And we’d like to help if we can..."

to read the full email, go ahead and click this link and it will take you to a print screen of the actual full email! :) please keep this in your prayers and that i will not get ahead of myself and ahead of the Lord's timing. please remain in prayer for our financial situation and please pray that our move to causeway bay will be easy and stress free! love you all. thank you for loving us and caring for us and keeping us in your prayers.

agape,

christin joy.