No Regrets!

 This video produced by FAI served as such a tremendous encouragement to us this month. Coming out of a "dark season of the soul", we are so so thankful for this word from God to encourage us and bless us through this missionary couple.

We had so many takeaways from their own story and could identify on many levels; especially moving to hear that God used the book of Nehemiah to speak truth to them, as we are about to wrap up our own personal study in the book of Nehemiah.

He even sent a Korean to minister to them when their hearts were broken! Isn't God amazing?!

Here are some quotes from the video testimony from Dan and Devri Wickwire.

"The removal of self is only something God can do for you, and it's through the things you're experiencing."

"Even though it's a very painful season and you feel like a failure, it doesn't matter because the very essence of you is what God's doing inside you... Always remember no matter what you're going through, God is faithful and God is good..."

"No matter what you're going through, He's  doing so many things on so many levels (that) we don't always totally understand; but we can always totally trust Him!"

"I have no reputation, really, to defend; my Jesus had a reputation and He became of no reputation for me."

"There are times in the Christian walk when we're battered about and we don't understand and God is allowing it; not for discipline or to change us, but it's just called the dark night of the soul and we don't understand... (but) God is Sovereign and is always good."

Nehemiah 8:11, "The Levites calmed the people, saying, "Be still, for the day is holy; do not be grieved." 

"I realized what I was feeling was grief. The Hebrew word for death is separation. I was feeling grieved because I was being separated from the people I had served with for 14 years.... but this isn't a final separation... His blood covers everything!"

"If God commands us, then we must be able to obey!" And this was a command: "Do not grieve."

"All is well with my soul! Why? Because of what Jesus did on the cross... God is never the accuser; He is never joining with the accuser of the brethren."

"In every season, in every battle, we're always learning and there's so much more of God that we haven't learned yet... As we get older, we understand more about the heart of God and we understand more of His greatness! We're quicker to pray... quicker to lean on Him."

"You will not be sorry for any thing, any time, any money, any energy, anything that you have put in the Lord's hands; you will not regret it."

"No regrets!"

"We have a God that knows how to take good care of us! He knows what we need!"