Neck-jerk day. Wow! Went to a power-packed Bible study filled with godly women who know what they are about in Christ and led by an anointed lady. Went to the bathroom...left the stall thinking about how I hate to see myself in the light of that particular room as it makes my hair look its worst only to have a lovely young lady I have never seen before enter the church restroom and say "I love your hair. It is beautiful. The way it lays on your shoulders, just looks so nice." My response in the spirit is "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" That's all I have. God just keeps using the body of Christ to build me up, prop me up, hold me up! He loves me enough to CLAP his hand over the devil's mouth just as the last ember of life is leaking out of me.
God has some amazing plans for me. I don't just know this because Jeremiah 29:11 tells me this. I know this because the devil is fighting hard to immobilize and tranquilize and kill me. I know this because God is actively reaching out to me, communicating with me and loving me. I know this because my spirit leaps up within me whenever I think about my God-given destiny. The mystery of it is even beautiful to me. The fact that it will be revealed bit by precious bit.
I drove into my driveway straight into a pit of disappointment, broken dreams and same-old-same-old struggle. I was immediately confronted with the hardships I have been reeling from for going on two years. I did not respond in a faith-filled, God-honoring manner. I, in all of my mighty warrior-like praying confidence, TOOK A NAP!
Might warrior indeed. I am happy to report to all of you battle-weary Christians that we don't have to look, act or seem like we are mighty for God to see us that way. The angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and referred to him as a "mighty warrior," telling him that God was with him. Gideon's faith-filled response was: "...if the Lord is with us, why has all of this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about..." (Judges 6:13, NIV)
The Israelites had been plundered by the Midianites and were living in caves and hiding places in the mountains. God had victory in store, and he used Gideon to bring that about, even though, as Gideon pointed out to the angel, his clan was the least important in the tribe of Manasseh and he himself was the "least" in the family.
Wherever you are in the journey of your life, God will use you if you let him. He will give the task and then the strength to carry it out!!! Trust him! When you fail (as I did today), dust yourself off and JUST KEEP WALKING. Never stop walking.
God has some amazing plans for me. I don't just know this because Jeremiah 29:11 tells me this. I know this because the devil is fighting hard to immobilize and tranquilize and kill me. I know this because God is actively reaching out to me, communicating with me and loving me. I know this because my spirit leaps up within me whenever I think about my God-given destiny. The mystery of it is even beautiful to me. The fact that it will be revealed bit by precious bit.
I drove into my driveway straight into a pit of disappointment, broken dreams and same-old-same-old struggle. I was immediately confronted with the hardships I have been reeling from for going on two years. I did not respond in a faith-filled, God-honoring manner. I, in all of my mighty warrior-like praying confidence, TOOK A NAP!
Might warrior indeed. I am happy to report to all of you battle-weary Christians that we don't have to look, act or seem like we are mighty for God to see us that way. The angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and referred to him as a "mighty warrior," telling him that God was with him. Gideon's faith-filled response was: "...if the Lord is with us, why has all of this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about..." (Judges 6:13, NIV)
The Israelites had been plundered by the Midianites and were living in caves and hiding places in the mountains. God had victory in store, and he used Gideon to bring that about, even though, as Gideon pointed out to the angel, his clan was the least important in the tribe of Manasseh and he himself was the "least" in the family.
Wherever you are in the journey of your life, God will use you if you let him. He will give the task and then the strength to carry it out!!! Trust him! When you fail (as I did today), dust yourself off and JUST KEEP WALKING. Never stop walking.
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