Stepping Out In Faith

Back at the end of November, our pastor's brother came and spoke at our church. The sermon was called "The Power of Prayer". At the beginning of the sermon he asked us to thing about a particular issue/problem currently in our life. The first thing I thought of was trying to get pregnant. (Ken and I have been trying just under a year.) The points were:
1. Powerful prayer will speak positively about the situation
2.Powerful prayer set our focus on God, not the obstacles
3. Powerful prayer stays committed even in difficulties
4. Powerful prayer sees miracles
If you want to watch the sermon-email me and I can give you directions on how to get to the website to watch it. (raebarnes@hotmail.com) It was a really good sermon. I am watching it again right now. I wish I could find the sermon notes so I can put some scripture up too. I will have to keep looking..........

At the end on the sermon he was giving example of things people have done to show their faith that God would answer their prayers. One example was: Tithing where you would like your income level to BE, rather than were it was currently at. Another was--GET THE BABY'S ROOM READY. As soon as I heard that, I knew that is what I wanted to do. Ken was working up in the sound/video booth that night. I immediately sent him a text message saying "Lets get the baby's room ready". He sent one right back saying "I was just thinking the same thing!". I have to say that I loved Ken so much more in that moment. We went home and discussed it a little. There was a lot to do before we could even think about that room being ready to paint. I did go and pick up some paint samples and we picked a shade of green that we both agreed on.(Ken was a little disappointed that I wouldn't allow "panthers blue") When Ken's parents were in town after Christmas they asked us if there were any house projects that needed to be done. We told them about getting the baby's room ready and they jumped at the opportunity. Dick did all the painting--he doesn't like to share! Ken and Dick got new shelving put up in the closet. Paula and I rearranged several rooms and reorganized things. That was a big help. We also went to Babies "R" Us and bought some gender neutral baby clothes.

So Ken and I are stepping out and faith. We are getting our baby's room ready. We are getting it ready and waiting on God to do the rest. Soon we will start looking at furniture and deciding on cribs. We are going to get everything except the baby bedding. That will be decided when we know what we are having. Here are pictures from that fun time!

BEFORE: