God is SO good!!

The past year has been a tough one financially. I have had so many uncertainties about how I was going to afford to finish college. I had always dreamed of studying abroad and when I didn't recieve as much financial aid as I had anticipated, I was so discouraged. Thankfully, Semester at Sea reevaluated my need for financial aid and gave me a scholarship that is making it possible for me to take part in the program.

All I can say is God truly answers prayers. I have been praying that He would provide for me and take away the stress and worry I have felt over the past year. Today, my prayers were answered even more. I received my financial aid package from Baylor and was overjoyed to find out that I had received a $6,000 scholarship, loan money, and work study. This means that I can stop worrying about how I will finish paying for school and I can fully concentrate on my studies and serviing God. 

I honestly do not even have words for how grateful I am right now. I am truly amazed at how God answers our prayers. All of the stress and anxiety I have felt lately concerning finances has been lifted and was completely unnecessary. By turning all of my anxieties over to the Lord, I have been put at ease and blessed tremendously. 

Here are just a few of my favorite verses that have really touched my heart throughout these past months.

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," delares the Lord, "and will bring you back from captivity." Jeremiah 29:11-14

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Matthew 7:7-8

Those who love me, I will deliver; I will protect those who know my name. When they call to me, I will answer them; I will be with them in trouble, I will rescue them and honor them. With long life I will satisfy them, and show them my salvation. Psalm 91:14-16

If God is for us, who can be against us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8: 31-39