This week Josh and I have learned and are continuing to truly learn that Jesus is more than enough, we both have been fasting for more of Jesus! And the question we both know God is asking us is, "Am I more than enough?" Past the hunger pains, the headaches and the fatigue and the persecution. Yes!!! Jesus has called us out and asked us to truly follow Him with everything that we are. And not only that, He really is testing our faith in Him as we are preparing for Africa. We just bought the tickets! Praise Jesus, it has totally been him providing for us this whole time! HE truely is our provider and sustainer in everything we do. So now we are trusting that we will have the money to pay our bills and for the Holy Given school.
This has been such an exciting adventure for Josh and I. We are falling so much more in love with Christ and experiencing intimacy on a supernatural playing field. And because we are yielding everything to Him we are experiencing a supernatural intimacy with each other, and boy is it awesome : )
These past two weeks I have been so challenged and called forward in my walk. I have been praying for more of the Lord and Jesus is truly testing me. For the first week I was getting up in the morning and giving Jesus about a half an hour of my time, and now I can't get enough time with Him, an hour or two before my day and after track at the end of my day I find myself at some coffee place usually Starbucks, because it is open until 11pm and worshipping and being completley humbled and broken before Him for several hours! I have been fasting for 6 days now with just water and tea of some kind, and it has been one of the most rewarding and humbling things I have ever done for the Lord. I have fasted before for a week on my own strength and it was so much harder, the temptations, the hunger pains, the headaches were unbearable. But this time Jesus has so blessed it, because I have asked Him to be all I need. And as I face all of these things I find myself singing, "You are more than enough for me, you are all that I want and all that I'll ever need, You are more than enough for me. Wow, this is so true and amazing! For the first time in my life I am actually grasping the truth and power of Jesus, not only to sustain me but to give me life in abundance. I say this all in such humility, that it may encourage you all to really seek Jesus now while we have it so good. This has also been something I have been praying and asking myself, "Jesus, if you are more than enough in Africa(with nothing) are You more than enough in America(abundance)?"
So all that to say, I pray that you who are reading this right now would be challenged to press in and really ask yourself is Jesus more than enough for me? It's humbling and so sweet!!! And be encouraged that Jesus is who He says He is, and He will give you what you ask if it comes from a pure and humble heart. If you want to partner in this together let me know and I will be praying for you.
The JOY of the LORD is our true Strength!
Wrapped in Christ's Love,
~Jess for the Clark's
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We love you couple of crazies so much. Our prayer for you is that God will continue to have Glory in this trip. I tear up thinking about you leaving because I know that I want to see first hand how God is moving in Africa and through you guys, but I guess written word will have to do. May Christ continue to move through you, may you experience an incredible amount of comfort despite climate change, may you be free from distractions of all kind, adn may you know that we are covering you in prayer. Praise Jesus that he is more than enough, in a world where we sometimes have to much to really know what it means to need him.
IN his light and grace,
Andrea
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