So my goodness I just have to fill you in on what happened with our internet issue that we were experiencing.
After the LAL TOUR ended, the Lord gave Sara and me an unbelievable blessing. Instead of parting, we took a train to Sicily for rest and focus solely on our online ministry work!!
My mom had initially searched for where He wanted us to stay, but none of the places gave us a peace —so we waited. The next thing I knew I was doing a search and what popped up got me so excited!! I just knew it was it. It was so hard waiting for my mom to wake up on the other side of the world to help me confirm!! The listing was 50% off the original and very affordable for Cristina and me. Even though we contacted the hostess about the flat having reliable internet for our online work —we couldn’t be sure until we got there.
It was just lovely how the Lord had the hostess pick us up from the bus station and took us the rest of the way by car. She pointed out our one grocery store, pizzeria and more than one gelato shop haha. Connection to the internet and everything seemed alright until moments later when the connection dropped. The modem was nowhere to be found, which lead me to believe it was downstairs in our hostess’ unit hence the very poor connection.
Talking with the Lord, I asked Him what He wanted us to do —feeling like I’d made a mistake and missed Him on this. Lord knows He was teaching us patience haha. But I couldn’t help but think about the verse where it talks about how He adds no sorrow…
“The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” Proverbs 10:22 (KJV)
“God’s blessing makes life rich; nothing we do can improve on God” —Proverbs 10:22 (MEG)
The connection was on and off throughout each day and Sara so I would have to quickly attack the work before work came to another halt.
Without any idea how to pursue the internet issue with the hostess as there’s a language barrier and who knew whether she could even fix it. But being the God that He is, He led me to send a simple message to her using my pay as you go mobile device (that didn’t need wifi connection) during one of our “blackouts.”
She replied giving me her personal network and password and asked me to try!! The issue was fixed!!! Then the Lord did something completely unexpected. Always because my mom always taught us to claim double (whether it was unjust or even our mistake)!! The next day, I heard a knock on the door. It was the hostess explaining in English as best she could that there was an internet technician downstairs installing a brand new network and was giving us password just for us and explaining he would be coming upstairs in ten minutes to connect and place a new modem in our unit!!!!
Isaiah 61:7-8 “Instead of your shame you will have a DOUBLE portion, and instead of humiliation they will shout for joy over their portion Therefore they will possess a DOUBLE portion in their land, Everlasting joy will be theirs. For I, the LORD, love justice, I hate robbery . . . And I will faithfully give them their recompense And make an everlasting covenant with them.”
Isaiah 40:2, “Speak kindly . . . And call out to her, that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity has been removed, that she has received of the LORD’S hand DOUBLE for all her sins.”