You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord… ~ Isaiah 26:3
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Now that is something to get excited about!
If you have been reduced to God being
your only hope, you are in a good place. ~ Jim Laffoon
Why is that?
Because as the old saying goes “When you are down to nothing God is up to something.”
When I finally started living for God I thought, “I am just going to take Him at His word. I am just going to trust and see if He comes through.”
What I found was that He always, ALWAYS made a way where I thought there could be no way.
There were too many “coincidences” for them to not be “miracles.”
So these days when I find myself in a position of needing God to come through, or it all seems to be falling apart, I tend to freak out a little first (though those periods are getting shorter and shorter), before I remind myself of how good God is. How He has never let me down before.
And then it hits me,
I start feeling over the top EXCITED!!!
I am so freaken excited right now because I need to see God come through in a huge way and I know that He will!!!
As the Bible says in Ephesians 6:13 we are to do our part and “after [we] have done everything, [we are] to stand.”
And I believe that He wants us to stand, waiting with expectant hope.
What miricale do you need to happen? Do all you can do and then stand!
And while you are standing, waiting excitedly for God to do something amazing, tell others about your journey.
The world needs encouragement but more than anything they need God.
They need to know him as their loving father who will never leave them.
When you allow the joy of the Lord to turn to excitement you are like a lighthouse standing on a hill. People cannot help but notice.
And when He comes through for you, Talk About It!!!!!!
Do not hide your light!!!
Shine!!!
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Don’t let this stop you
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
So much of my life was lived in fear. I wasted the first half of it because I simply did not trust God and was led by fear instead of truth.
As I started to lean on Him for the small things He proved faithful and my faith was strengthened.
God placed a hope in me that I would reach people and share the power of his love.
He also gave me a destination. England.
Because He has always come through before, it makes sense that His asking me to leave my job, and trust Him to pay all my bills, while getting me a job in a country I have never been to, would be a cakewalk.
That there would be no fear involved.
But that is not the case. It is scary, All kind of fears want to take space in my head, thereby holding me back from doing all that I have been called to do.
The thing is, I do not listen to my fears, I listen to God. I once read a quote that said Courage is fear that has said it’s prayers.
What a world it would be if we simply prayed every time fear tried to gain entry. If we simply allowed God to lead us into all that He has for us without fear stopping us before we even got out the door.
God places the feeling of hopefulness inside you to allow you to shut out the voice of fear.
Lean into that.
And stop allowing what you see to dictate what God can do in and through you.
God is FAITHFUL he will see you through!!!
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God tells us to do this…because He will…
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. ~ Joshua 1:9
A Broken Computer, An Even Broker Mom, And A Wholehearted Decision
Trusting God is not a “one time fits all occasions.” Making the choice to worry and or trust God is an every day, and sometimes every minute thing.
Everything that goes wrong in our life is a great opportunity to practice our trusting.
One such opportunity came for me in the guise of my son’s broken computer.
So to set the stage a little it was about a year after my husband death. My son had retreated into His room where he played games for days on end. This worried me…a lot! But with work, school, no car, and three other grieving kids to think about, I really did not have the time, nor the strength to try and separate him from his beloved computer.
When His computer broke down, I am not going to lie, I thought finally! Now He will get out of his room. I was not about to try and fix anything (or pray for it to be fixed). A small part of me even thought (for a split second) that this must be an answer to prayer.
But then I noticed, really noticed my son.
How sad, how dejected he was. As bad as I thought they were, those games were all he had, those people on them, for the most part, were all he had.
It broke me.
I knew that God would NEVER answer my prayer for my son this way.
Romans 2:4 tells us that it is God’s kindness that leads us to repentance…it does not say anything about crushing sorrow.
I made the decision to trust God’s word and to pray and trust God to work.
I prayed and then led by God I went to my son and said “You are going to get a new computer.”
“How, you’re broke. I need at least 1,000 dollars…How is that going to happen?” He asked, thinking I was crazy.
“I have no idea but God is going to give you a new computer.”
He shook his head and said “God does not care about me. He does that kind of stuff for you but He doesn’t care about me that much.”
I told him he was wrong and I said “You will see. By the end of today you will get some information about money for a new computer.”
That is trusting God. I stood on what He told me even though I could have been afraid that if God didn’t come through it might turn my son away from Him for good…it is scary, not always easy…but if we trust God with our salvation, why not trust Him with our children! Or our finances, or our job, car, clothes, friendships, etc.
Long story short …by the end of the day he was told by a friend from across the country that he would pay for the computer…he gave him $1,000 FREE and my son had another friend build him a computer worth $2,000 with it.
God is so good that he did not take my son away from the only thing that gave him comfort. He has come a long way…does not need the computer as much as he did then…but he sure does appreciate it and knows that God cares for him just as much as he does for me.
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I Am Trusting God 