So let's start this post by praising the Lord God above. He is perfect, awesome, holy, magnificent and utterly breathtaking. AND He provides. Always. Example....
I HAVE A JOB!
Seriously, this position could not have been mine if God had not arranged everything.
Tuesday: I see on facebook my friend Bethany has announced her employer is hiring in the Palm Springs area. "Is anyone looking for a job?" she asks. "Me me me!" I reply. She gives me her boss' contact info. I research the organization. Love it. Send an email with resume to her boss around 7pm.
Wednesday: Around 2pm I receive a call from the organization's HR, wanting to interview me over the phone. After the 20 minute phone interview, they call me back in 5 minutes and want to schedule an in-person interview for the following day at 3pm. I agree. Enthusiastically, I might add.
Thursday: 3pm. I have my interview. It goes fantastically. I love my soon-to-be boss, I love the organizaiton, I love my position. And apparently they loved me because they called me right when I got home around 4:15, offering me the job!
Soooooooo.....HOW AMAZING IS THE LORD?! I find out about this position Tuesday and by Thursday I have the job. This truly is a testament to God working everything out according to His flawless timing. If He wants something to happen right away, He will make it happen!
The organization I'm working with is called Housing with HEART and they are a sector of a larger nonprofit organization called Jamboree Housing. Jamboree's main goal is to provide safe, adequate, affordable housing to those who otherwise wouldn't have it. Housing with HEART was created to attend to the social, physical and emotional needs of the residents of Jamboree housing; connecting them to or providing them with whatever services they might need. My position, Resident Services Coordinator, is to research and inform residents on services available to them, and then to provide after-school services for all the children in the apartment complex I will work at. Though Jamboree builds many homes, they often find existing apartment complexes that are struggling and help bring them up to code. This is the case for where I will be working. It is an apartment complex in Palm Springs (about 30 minutes from Indio) and is in the middle of being refreshed by Jamboree and Housing with HEART
I can not TELL you how excited I am about this position. Community development is something I have a great passion for and feel unbelievably privileged to be a part o this community's revival. I would've never dreamed that the job God would provide me with out here would be something that He has completely trained and prepared me for all through college. That sounds ridiculous to say out loud (or typed out rather) but it didn't occur to me. I thought I would find a job solely for the purpose of paying off debt, but clearly God had/has something greater in mind. Hello Lindsay.
I start April 11th and I work weekdays from 2-6pm. These hours are absolutely perfect because I can help with any church tasks in the morning, I can still go to my Bible study on Tuesday mornings, my prayer group on Thursday nights and I can still help with the park ministry on Wednesday nights! I'm really just constantly floored by His faithfulness.
I want to encourage all of you who are struggling to trust in God to take great hope. Though it is so difficult (SO difficult) to trust Him when logic, outside voices and society are telling you to doubt, don't. He knows what He is doing, especially when no one else does. He is faithful and will provide for your every need. "As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth; it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:10-11 God says we need not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow has enough worry for itself. Trust Him and His word. He is perfect and worthy of praise, worthy of TRUST. Put all you have in Him for only He is holy. He will take great care of you. He's certainly taking great care of me!
Lindsay!!!! I am so so happy for you!!! And also thank you for this! This is so encouraging to me and a great reminder b/c everyone around me /including logic is saying that I can't do my summer school courses in SC and then Japan and then Korea and I won't make it in time for my job and finances are a mess...everyone is saying I'm trying to do too much and I'm crazy and I keep trying to remember that God can do anything especially because I truly believe that he did this for a purpose He has called me to all of these things. So thank you! this is definitely a reminder that God has no restraints not even time... So encouraged by you :) I love you and I miss you so much!!! & again Congrats girlY!!! :)
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