3/31/2007 - Martin's "God Wants to Help Me" Update
Dear Friends and Family,
I hope this email finds you well. I am doing fine, and feeling fine! I have just
had the most awesome revelation. God wants to help me! Well, to give it the
right emphasis…God WANTS to help me! You may be thinking to yourselves, “Marty,
you knew that. God has been helping you for years.” I have always known that I
could go to God for help. I have trusted God, and believed Him for big things.
However, somehow it suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks how much God wants to
help me, and how much He really loves to help me. I don’t mean to sound
conceited, He wants to help you too, and you should get excited about that fact!
I think that too often we think of ourselves as part of a herd of Christians
that God will help if He needs to. Instead we should see ourselves as God’s
children whom He loves to bless and help individually in a very personal way. He
doesn’t just want to help in emergency situations; He wants to help us in every
way with everything in our lives. We just have to ask Him for His help, and He
loves it when we do. Just let that sink in. It will leave you rejoicing!
This has been a very eventful couple of weeks. First of all I am happy to report
that I got the court decision that I have been waiting on. Praise the Lord!
Everything went through without a problem, so the foundation is officially moved
to Sevlievo, and its new name is Balkan Hope Foundation. The Sunday evening
services are still going well. I made my first soccer goal since I last wrote.
Can you imagine? And at just the tender age of 43! I almost made a second goal,
but I had kicked the ball in the wrong direction—so I am glad that it was
blocked. (I didn’t realize that we had switched sides!) I witnessed a hit and
run accident while out paying my bills, and wrote down the license plate number.
When the police came I was able to give it to them. I also went to a computer
game arcade. Rado (the boy that I have mentioned before) has been coming to my
apartment around supper time quite a bit lately, and he is now bringing friends.
They like to eat and play games on my computer. Rado thought it would be great
fun if I went with him to this computer game arcade, so I agreed. Rado insisted
that I play a game too, so I played Monopoly. (I really don’t understand how to
play most computer games. I never advanced past Ms. Pacman!)
Many people are asking me when I am coming home. I haven’t bought a ticket yet,
because I still have to apply for my visa renewal. I can’t do that until all the
documents from the courts arrive. Nothing else could get done until I got the
court decision stating that the foundation was officially located in Sevlievo. I
have a residency visa, and so it is linked to my national ID card with my
registered address. I have to show my lease, and the address on my lease has to
be in the oblast (county) where my foundation is registered. Now that those
changes have been made, many other documents must be changed as well. I am now
waiting for another certificate from the courts stating that the foundation has
an “active” status. I made a trial run to the visa office this week just to see
if I had all the papers that I would need once I get the document I am now
waiting for, and they told me that I needed another certificate. I have it, but
it has our old name and ID number on it. I hope that will not be a problem! Help
me pray about that.
Well, I had better go for now. I am preaching twice tomorrow, so I still have
some preparation to do. As always I am thankful for your faithful prayer support
and financial support. If you would like to make a tax-exempt donation to this
ministry you can send a check or money order to Obedient Life Ministries at P.O.
Box 267, Clarion, PA 16214, or you can donate by credit card through our secure
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Be blessed in Jesus’ Name!
Martin Sutton