Child-like faith

Thank you so much!! We just received a payment for the swan drawing!! Thank you, sweet friend from Texas! So far, you are the only one in the drawing. Does anyone else want to enter in as well? Only six more days until we draw names. It is only two dollars to enter this drawing. If you live near the Tygart's you can give them the money in person and tell them it is for the swan drawing. Make sure you give them your contact information so they can give it to us. We will mail the swan to the winner. Natasha wants to draw the name. We are moving this Monday...nothing fancy, but it is a four bedroom which we really needed. It is small, but we are very happy. We desperately needed something. It is just a couple miles from JC's work so we are pleased with the location. This will save a ton on gas. The children are still doing school at home, but we have enrolled them in a k12 school. It is a virtual academy and many states have them. Mississippi is not one of them, though. I am so excited about this. The kids have their own teachers. The school sent boxes and boxes of books and school supplies for the year. The curriculum is free. I am so amazed at all of this. They also sent the children computers (brand spanking new) and three printers (also a scanner & copier). Those were also brand new still in package. All of this was free. Just totally blown away. I am happy we have this opportunity. It is through the public school system. They have deadlines to meet and lots of responsibilty with this school. Definitely not as lenient as I am with homeschool, but I needed this. We all needed this. I needed them to get caught up and I needed the extra help. They need to be challenged and I wasn't challenging them enough. Now I know they will be exactly where they need to be. They are also going to pay for our internet. Isn't that just awesome? There is so much more happening and maybe one day I can explain it all, but God is doing amazing things here for our family. Jacob turned 2 the end of August and he has pee-peed in the big potty twice now. I haven't been pushing potty training at all, but I do sit him up there before he gets in the bathtub sometimes. He is not on a little potty and after we move, I will get that out and we will potty train more. Especially since he is interested in going potty. I think I will pick it up on a notch once we get into the house and start getting settled in. He may not want the little potty, though after only going on the big one. Gabriel never used the little one. He was so scared of it. I am not sure why, but he was. It took one week of being home everyday and Gabriel was fully potty trained. This may sound weird, but in the daytime, he had to be fully naked. As soon as he felt he had to go, he would run down the hallway to the bathroom and go. We do not use pull ups. We only go straight to underwear. That seems to get our children potty trained faster. Now that we have Natasha, we may not be able to do the "naked thing" with Jacob. She will not even look if we are changing Jacob's diaper. I am not sure how she will be when she has a baby if it is a boy. I told her she will have to change her own baby's diaper. At this point, she does not think she could. But, I know she would. When you become a mother, you do things you never thought you would do. :) Anyway, I can't wait for Jacob to get potty trained. That will also save a LOT of money. :) I will end this post with saying that Gabriel got saved the other night!! He and I were in the bedroom and he was laying on his little bed and I was reading in my bed. He was supposed to be going to sleep, but he started asking me questions. I put the book down and walked over to the side of his bed. I knelt down beside him. He was very emotional and started crying. He was asking questions about Heaven, Earth, and just tons of questions. He said he wanted to pray and ask Jesus into his heart. I told him he could pray that whenever he was ready. He said he was ready to pray right then. I did not have him repeat a prayer after me because I wanted him to talk to God. I did not want it to be my words at all. It was the most precious thing. I thank God for drawing Gabriel to Himself. Gabriel loves God so much and wants to follow Him. He woke up the next morning and wanted to pray over Jacob. When he prayed, he seemed more mature and even more sincere with the words he was speaking. I know he is only six, but with a child, they believe so much more than we do. When you become an adult, it is harder to believe. There is so much in the way and it gets harder to trust God. If we could just believe like a child...wow...we could totally move mountains and heal the sick. Jesus could do so much through us if we could only believe like a child does. I want that child-like faith. I want that unconditional love a child has. I want a faith that has no limits. But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame." For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:8-13 Jesus said...."Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it." Mark 10:14-15