1-14-2005

Dear Prayer team,

I basically have the non profit and organizational paperwork done (2 pages left to finish filling in - financial stuff mostly), and the contract to buy the ranch ready to sign. And suddenly I seem to have hit a brick wall financially. No work to speak of. No response to my appliance repair ads in the paper (how I used to earn my living). All my freelance job bids have fallen through. No funds, sick with bad cough (so haven't been able to work much outside with firewood sales), no response to my resumes and applications in Boise for work through the winter, and bills all hitting at once. I think that I have money coming in in several weeks, but that's not when everything is due *sad chuckle*.

So I am asking that God show me what it is He wants me to do if I am supposed to be doing something special or different to bring the money in myself to pay the bills on this place and all the filing fees, or waiting on Him, or just what. Today was my goal to start filing all the paperwork and sign the contract on this place, but it's as though things have suddenly come to a standstill that I don't understand. So I am concerned that His timing is not here yet or that I have missed something obvious along the line.

So pray that God works things out, in HIS time, and that I know what exactly it is that I am supposed to be doing until then. And that I feel better physically! That I keep my eyes on Him and not get discouraged. He is my God and I will not deny Him. I just wish I could hear His voice more clearly and understood things better sometimes.

thanks.

In His service,

-Tim