Jeremiah 29

This, for some reason, has been an up and down week for me. One day I am up and positive, the next I am down and negative. My emotions are all over the map and I'm not always sure what causes the up and down of them. A lot of times is what I experience in the course of a day. I get an e-mail from someone who has some interest in the core group...up I go. I talk with my parents who don't understand what I am doing and I think believe that I am committing my family to homelessness...down I go. I become aware that someone has given financially to support this dream of planting a church..up I go. I look at what we need financially and the gap that currently exists...and down I go. What a crazy ride....

But the other night God used a familiar passage of Scripture to speak truth to me and to my heart. God has used this verse in similar times in my past, and it was the right time to hear these words again. The words come from Jeremiah 29.

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."_ Jeremiah 29:11-13. Verse 11 is what stuck out to me and I am trusting that God does have plans to prosper me and not to harm me, to give my family hope and a future.