"...Go to the land I will show you..."

As France began to be more and more in my thoughts I was also beginning to explore singing Jazz music. Simple, classic jazz standards like my father used to listen to when I was young. I was sharing with a friend one day about my desire to go to France and she mentioned a couple we both knew that also had a desire to go to France. I approached that couple and said, "I hear you want to go to France" and they responded, "Yes, we want to go and check out the music scene and maybe take a jazz group". This was a wonderful connection for me and again seemed like the Lord. We began to talk about France and what the Lord might want to do with us there. As we prayed and talked I had many confirmations through this new connection.

This same couple was planning a trip to France and asked me to pray about coming along. I began to pray and it was clear to me the Lord was telling me to go. As it turned out this was a bad time financially for this couple and they decided it would not be wise for them to go at this time. So I figured that was that. But then as I prayed I felt the Lord was still telling me to go.

Genesis 12:1, "The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you", kept coming to me. First I read it then I would hear it different times on the radio. I wrestled with this. Was this the Lord? Was He telling me to go even though I would be going alone? But when I would think or pray about it, I still felt that urging. And then I was driving one day and listening to a sermon and the preacher was talking about this verse and he said, "maybe God is telling you to go and you just need to go!". I laughed out loud. Ok, Lord. I guess we're going to France!