God is faithful!
So easy to forget when you view your future through the wrong lenses.
When God asks us to trust him, then we are to put our blinders on. So that only He is in our view.
If we don’t we are sure to get sidetracked by things like fear of how “this” is going to work, or how “that” is not going to cause us to crash and burn.
God does not call us to figure it out. He calls us to trust Him.
Which we can do knowing that He will NEVER let us down because
He is faithful!
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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Why would you ever complain, O Jacob,
or, whine, Israel, saying,
“GOD has lost track of me.
He doesn’t care what happens to me”?
Don’t you know anything? Haven’t you been listening?
GOD doesn’t come and go. God lasts.
He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine.
He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch his breath.
And he knows everything, inside and out.
He energizes those who get tired,
gives fresh strength to dropouts.
For even young people tire and drop out,
young folk in their prime stumble and fall.
But those who wait upon GOD get fresh strength.
They spread their wings and soar like eagles,
They run and don’t get tired,
they walk and don’t lag behind.
Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005), Is 40:27–31.
I Am Trusting God 