Hello dear friends,
This is Luna writing for you today.
While God has led us to to our new car in perfect ways, as mentioned in our previous post, it looks like we will also be looking for a new place to stay and new jobs in near future! But let us rewind the time a bit.
So, a few months back, the Lord constantly put the word "house" on my mind. I was confused and asked him "House?! What does that mean, God?" And then he told me to literally start looking for a house.
Well, you all know about the problems we had with our neighbor. But we never felt like it was time to move, because there was somehow still unfinished business left for God here. Also, I never ever wanted to become a house owner, so I definitely knew, that these thoughts did not come from my own desires. However, when I asked him about the things we had to do here in this apartment complex, the Lord gave me peace and said how we've learned the lessons we had to learn here, and everything else regarding our neighbors was His business and responsibility, and not ours (we've been also serving two Christian families here in the complex, not just praying for the crazy one).
And then, a few weeks ago, the confirmation came once again when our landlady told us about her plans to sell the apartment! Of course, she offered, to sell it to us. However, with current inflation, prices for apartments and houses are almost the same and again, we feel like we are done here in some ways. So if there's an option to have more nature around us, which we would all really enjoy, why not? I am actually surprised to be writing this now with such a peace, because my own will in terms of owning anything here on earth used to be the complete opposite. Right now, we are looking around and praying for wisdom with different possibilities, but we are not in a haste or worried at all. God is leading us all the way through, like always, because he is faithful.
On top of that we both think, there will be a change in our employment coming our way at some point. We both feel quite frustrated by our current job conditions. Harry has mentioned his situation in the previous post about waiting for God's timing regarding this.
Since a foreign company has bought the Croatian company I started working for three years ago, it all pretty much goes down the corporate rabbit hole of hell, which is very sad and hard to watch, being originally a small, family-like company in the past. And since our team still is the best team I've ever experienced at a work place and I truly love working with my colleagues, leaving wouldn't be easy. However, as a team we are all becoming increasingly unsatisfied by the work conditions, feeling unappreciated and like a replaceable number in a nightmare of bureaucracy. I am not yet certain if I should be actively and seriously looking for something else right now. So for all the topics above, we are in a state of alerted wait and see and listen.
Lastly, God has been stirring up something inside of me since the past year, I never thought I would ever step into: building a business in the creative/art field.
In the past year, the Lord has revealed to me that my core identity is that of an artist. The reason, why this is so significant for me is that I've always felt a bit lost in terms of why I was here and who I really was. Growing up in two cultures has a lot of great advantages, but does not help a lot here, and may even further delay finding out our true identity, since you always kind of feel "mixed" and not fully part of something. A father is the one who speaks identity into their children, the hole he leaves when he is not (very) actively and positively present in the lives of his children is big. I think, this is one of the main reasons why so many people struggle with their identity these days. There are just not many families with an intact father-child relationship out there. Johannes Hartl, a prayer house leader in Germany said, how this topic of fatherhood is The hot and most important topic of our century. And I would certainly agree.
Anyway, my plan is to slowly build residual income streams through different legs of income. Lord knows, we sure need it, if he's giving us the task of buying or building a house! I've been looking into various ways to do that, and there are really many possibilities out there. But today, I want to share one of these legs with you. And once again, it is an area I never ever wanted to step one foot into ever! I guess, this year's motto for me is: Never say never when it comes to God's plans.
A bit more of a backstory on this: In the beginning of this year, brother Tomy Arayomi received a word from God, in which God encourages us Christians to step into the areas of business and media in order to reclaim them for God's Kingdom in the year of 2024. I heard this exactly when I needed to hear this and when God was stirring these topics up in my heart. He gave me a lot of encouragement to go forward into this direction, and by a lot, I really mean A LOT, okay, he knows well, how much I need this in order to be stepping onto these completely new paths of entrepreneurship. God's perfect timing always baffles me.
And this is now one of the new things God brought into my life: https://youtube.com/@Truth.46od?feature=shared
This is my youtube channel, in which I am posting thoughtful videos on different topics for encouragement, meditation and for God to speak his truths into our lives. In a world of shorts and short attention spans, I hope to provide a platform as an oasis from everything fast paced, on which God can confront us with his promises, blessings, encouragement and love. Oh, what a roller coaster of learning some completely new skills this has been in the past months! And it is not over yet, of course. But I am surprised to write, how creating these videos is more fun than I thought. But this has again something to do with my core identity. Artists just love to create new things, to experiment and explore. ;-) So, watch, click, like, subscribe, and share! I got that sentence down, all right.
May our Abbas Shalom bless you and keep you. You are precious to Him.
Love,
Luna & family
