Return from Singapore

I'm back from my trip to Singapore and even though it was a blessing to travel and teach there, I'm glad to be home. I wasn't sure about whether or not God wanted me to teach at TCA College (http://www.tca.edu.sg/) but I was told by a couple of advisors that I'd never have enough information to make a decision unless I flew over there. So that's what I did. Sometimes the Lord gives you experiences just to teach or reinforce things that He's already communicated to you. The trip there reinforced my need to stay in Hartland, WI, and develop Sanctuary. As a matter of fact, after I returned, the Lord directed me to two passages of Scripture: Psalm 122 and 2 Samuel 5:6-10. Both passages discuss Jerusalem and God used these to stress to me that I needed to condentrate on "my Jerusalem" which for now is Hartland. I remembered Acts 1:8 in which Jesus casts the audiences of the missionary ventures of the early church in a series of four concentric circles: Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth. Through that verse, I felt like the Lord was telling me not to ignore "the uttermost parts of the earth," but rather to focus at this stage of my life on Jerusalem. God's Word brings peace and it certainly ministered to my heart, so I had to let go of the possibility of teaching in Singapore at this point in time. Our future is in Christ's hands and although we may not know every think that He's got planned, we can trust Him that He knows what He's doing. In short, Jesus is reliable! That's my experience; it is yours, too?