Encourage One Another (and build each other up!)

-By Ari In December of 2024, my husband Chad and I received an unexpected and miraculous call from God to move to Hamburg, Germany (that’s a whole story of its own, ask us about it if you haven’t heard it yet!). The only other thing we were able to discern was that this was not meant to be an Abraham calling (get out of your father’s house and go to a land I’ll show you), but a Noah calling (build the boat, I’ll bring the rain). We started building the boat as best we knew how by spiritually, socially, and physically preparing to move internationally. In the meantime, God was moving around us. Soon after the call, He upended my company’s leadership to promote me to director of software, about five years ahead of schedule - exactly the promotion I needed to qualify for an EU visa type that would allow me to bring my spouse with me to Germany. This, combined with the fact that both Chad’s and my last jobs were provided to us supernaturally, led us to suspect God was going to provide the ...

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’   Matthew 7:21-23