Great quote

You can have faith or you can have control,

but you cant have both.

~Joel Schmidgall

God’s job vs our job

It’s Gods job to get us where He wants us to go. Our job is to make ourselves available anytime, anyplace. Mark Batterson

Why I want to appear foolish

Posted March 2, 2014

Filed under Quotes, Thoughts on Trusting God

Faith is the willingness to look foolish. – Mark Batterson

I love that quote. He talks about how when God calls us to do something it often requires us to look foolish in front of others.

Whether or not we are going to look stupid if we are obedient to God should never be our determining factor.

We should be willing to do what God calls us to do despite the fact that it may look as though we will fall on our face.

I believe that our obedience in this area is a major way that God reaches others.

People need to see God do miracles in our lives so that they could believe that maybe, just maybe, He could do the same in theirs.

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100 Posts, 7 reasons, and 1 freaken amazing quote

Posted February 27, 2014

Filed under Quotes, Thoughts on Trusting God

Anyone who knows me knows I suck at blogs (can I say that…ok I “stink” at them).

I have tried (and failed) at starting a blog more times that I can shake a stick at (whatever the heck that means).

To me blog writing always equaled homework (something I had to do) and so I started many blogs that were fated to die a quick death. I thought I was done…but then God…

Trusting God (this blog) was different because

1. God put on my heart to start a blog (wasn’t sure about what)

2. I mentioned it to my pastor (because I knew my history)

3. We prayed

4. The idea popped in my head, I was amazed “Trusting God” that plus my writing is what I do, the perfect fit

5. I took a step of faith and for the first time payed for a professional blog, professional layout, and all the fixings (as God led …usually my blogs were freebies with lots of distracting adds)

6. I quickly fell in love with posting (why because I love God with all my heart and know that encouraging Christians to trust him just that much more, is my thing.

7. This is the 100th post….proof that there is a God!!!

In honor of that fact I offer up the following From All in From Mark Patterson

“When did we start believing that God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things? That faithfulness is holding the fort?That playing it safe is safe? That there is any greater privilege than sacrifice? That radical is anything but normal?

Jesus didn’t die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous.

Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It is storming the gates of hell.

The will of God is not an insurance plan. It’s a daring plan.

The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn’t radicle it’s normal.

It’s time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

It’s time to go all in and all out for the All in All.

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Ps Thanks to all who have read, liked, or added this blog. It encourages me to keep going:)

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