Attempt to do something so great for God, it’s doomed to failure unless God be in it! – Haggai’s laws
Why God wants us to appear foolish
I am confident I will see the Lord’s goodness while I am here in the land of the living. (Psalm 27:13, NLT)
People think I am crazy, that is no joke.
They think I am nuts to believe that God would be so good to me, that even though the odds are stacked far against me, that He would get me a job in England and give me money to move there.
But doesn’t the word say that it is our faith that moves mountains! It is not our “kind of-maybe-sometimes-a-little-bit-half-hearted-belief,” but our Faith!
What is faith?
The Bible says that “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.” (Hebrews 11:1)
I have been assured by God that His will for me is England.
When God gives us a call on our life it is wise to give it back to God saying “I am believing that you are calling me to do this, at this time, if it is not you God then please redirect my steps.”
If He does not redirect our steps then He wants us to just have faith and believe.
He wants to open the doors for us to the miraculous so that other Christians will be amazed at what He has done and begin to trust Him to work in their life in a greater way.
God wants unbelievers to see our faith and hunger for God’s hand in their own life.
What is the radical thing is God calling you to believe for?
Have you given it back to God?
Have you stepped out in faith and shared with others?
If you are waiting to share about Gods goodness until “after” He makes “it” happen, then you will not have the “FAITH IMPACT” on others that you were supposed to have.
Jesus never told anyone “your kinda believing has made you whole” or “Never have I seen such great half-hearted belief.”
I believe that God wants us to look like fools, so that when He comes through people will notice!
Jesus is calling you out to the deep.
Believe Big and when God settles in your heart what to believe for, Share Bigger!!!
I have no idea what is in store for me there but I know that God’s plans for me are good.
As are His plans for you!!!
So believe your marriage will be restored!!!!
Believe that your sick child will be made whole!!!!
Believe that you will succeed in your business!!!!
And even believe that God will make a way and a life for me and my son in England!!!!
Remember…
We are call believers not watch-wait-and-seeers!”
Watch God and be amazed!!!!
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Why I am standing here
“having done all … stand firm.”
(Ephesians 6:13)
God is faithful!!!!
If I go to my grave never having grasped anything of real importance, I know that I know this, God is faithful, steadfast and true!!!!!
Right now I feel a bit like the Israelite’s who have been lead out of slavery, but have their captors giving chase and have been lead to what looks like their certain doom by a God who says He loves them.
They are facing the Red Sea with the Egyptians getting closer by the second thinking, “this is where we die.” They have no idea the AMAZING thing that God is about to do. The path that He is about to make open up before them.
Likewise, I have followed God to this place. He told me to give notice to my landlord, He told me to leave my job, He told me to prepare for England, and what jobs to Apply to, He even told me to start this blog and share about His faithfulness.. I have the Egyptians at my back, getting ever closer and I have an ocean before me which cannot be crossed without a miracle from God.
So I will Stand!!!
I will dig in my heals and believe and declare LOUDLY that God, MY GOD, is faithful!!!
That God is trustworthy!!!
Sit back and watch and be amazed as He parts the red sea in my life. And Believe Him to do the same in yours.
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I never thought this would happen at work, but I am glad it did!
It always amazes me when I hear people say that they think being a Christian would be boring. I have found it to always be just the opposite. I never know what God is going to do in my life. But I know whatever it is it will be good for me.
Take for instance what happened a few days ago at work. I was ringing up/talking to a very nice woman. A few second later her husband came to the counter and she went to look at something. He introduced himself and said he was a Pastor.
When he said so, I immediately felt Gods great urging to tell him that I have been called to England.
He looked me in the eye and said “I am going to pray for you before I leave the store.” I sensed God was behind that statement.
Long story short, he and his wife did pray for me and it was powerful.
The power was not in their words but in the complete and utter presence of God that fell on the entire store as the words came out. I felt as if I was scrubbed clean from the inside out and did know that through their prayer God was working to get me where I need to be.
I know that God had called me to consecrate myself to Him and His will for my life. I am not sure all the words the Pastor prayed but I am sure that God sent them there that day. I believe God shut doors that needed shutting and opened doors that needed opening through that prayer.
I am so absolutely clueless as to how God will put together the rest of the puzzle pieces to get me to England, but I know that He will do it because He knows what I need, even when I don’t.
And God knows what you need and will give it to you at the appointed time. You don’t need to figure out how the pieces will fit, for God it the one building your puzzle, and when He is done it’s going to be something to behold.
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God wants you to die
Sometimes we are waiting on God to do something amazing in our lives while He is first waiting on us to die to self and let go of that thing that we have been holding on to for far too long.
As Mark Batterson says, “God cannot resurrect what has not died, and that is why so many people are half alive. They haven’t died to self yet.”
For someone reading this God is saying “the time is now, let go and trust me.”
I Am Trusting God 