The Holy Spirit can be spontaneous!

 My daughter has gone to public school up through the 2nd grade and then this year for her 3rd grade year we started homeschooling. My son will be in Kindergarten next year. He will be 5 this month. The Lord started calling me to homeschooling back in late June. I thought at first it may have been a crazy idea that popped in my head due to the fact that I can be a little crazy and spontaneous. When I get a crazy idea it usually haunts me until I do it. I am beginning to think this spontaneous bone is called the Holy Spirit! I know, I know, sometimes it's just me being crazy. But after praying and praying and seeking wise council.....‘Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety." Proverbs 11:14....I realized that this is where the Lord wanted to lead us. As I looked back I could see the hand of God at work putting the puzzle pieces together at just the right time to set us up to be able to do this! He led us to the Dave Ramsey course at our church and we were led to pay off and sell cars that had payments. We stopped using credit cards and started focusing all extra cash to pay them off(almost done):). Then He started leading me to want to stay home with my children since I was now working to pay daycare and no longer needed any extra to pay car payments. So I thought I would be staying home with my son during his LAST year at home before sending him off to kindergarten....BOY was I wrong!

 So the Lord knew exactly what he wanted me to do with our new found freedom before it ever even entered my thoughts!...... So when it occurred to me that I just might be able to do this homeschooling thing I then presented the "spontaneous" thought to my hubby. Ok, so he was not exactly thrilled with the idea. I think we both were questioning whether the future of our children, academically speaking, should be left in our hands. What took a while for us to realize is that it was not ever going to be in OUR hands, but in the hands of our Creator! Man, the time we waste in life worrying about things for no reason. Well, I did doubt myself (and God) at first. I mean, I was like a D student in school. It wasn't that I could not have done better, but I did not care to. My focus was on the wrong things at that time. But what I did not realize at the time was that I was not only lacking the faith in myself, more importantly I was lacking Faith in my Lord. I was just not equipped for this. But thankfully, God does not call the equipped, He equips the called!

 I began to put my trust in God and not on myself. I was pumped up after that realization! "Ok Lord, if you want me to do this, then I know YOU will provide!!" But one problem....my husband was still not so convinced. WHAT??! Ok, so here I knew the Lord was calling us to do this but how could I move forward without my husband's consent?......"Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything." ~ Ephesians 5:22-24......By the way God brought me right to this verse as I was praying about homeschooling as a reminder! I do have a hard time in this area as a hard headed woman. So, I began to pray that the Lord would open his heart and speak to him in His perfect timing. He did, and my husband was soon totally on board! God is so Good! The Lord used this "minor set back" as a reminder for me to 1. be patient, 2.follow my husbands leadership, and 3. fully trust that He is able!! I have tried to be my husband's (along with some other peoples) Holy Spirit. That does not work, thank goodness.

 Now, walking in faith through this awesome journey has been both overwhelming and an amazing blessing at the same time. We just want the Lord to be our focus and at the center of all we learn and do!......Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. ~Matthew 6:33........Most of my family back home does not support what we are doing. It is hard because I get excited on certain days and really want to call and tell someone about it and I know that I can't, or shouldn't for sake of disappointment when I do not get the response back that I hope for. But I have to let that go, not hold a grudge and trust the Lord with all I have! Some think that they will not get the "proper education" by government standards. But we know that true wisdom comes from God our Creator! Who better to trust for knowledge and wisdom than the all knowing Creator of knowledge Himself?.... Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. ~Proverbs 3:5-6........For the Lord grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. ~Proverbs 2:6