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A worry-free life for Lent and beyond

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Abby| 1 Comment

By Kathi Kelly

“If you want a simpler life, you must learn to develop a more trusting life.” Joyce Meyer

There are so many ways that we can try to simplify our lives – from storage solutions to internet shopping, from daily schedules and routines to highly organised cupboards and closets. And these are only some of the practical ways. In my head and my heart I long for a simple life, especially when it comes to clutter and the ‘stuff’ of domestic life.

But there is a much more important way that I am learning to keep things simple in my life and that is by trusting whole-heartedly in God. That sounds very simple in black and white doesn’t it, but it is another thing to continually live a life of trust in God.

I love planning and organising. I like to know what to expect ahead of time so that I can write lists (lots of them!), get everything in place, prepared, ordered. I depend so much on doing this in all aspects of my life. But life can’t always be done this way. There are times when things are so out of our control that we can’t possibly do things in our own strength and we can’t depend on ourselves for the situation (as much as we think we can sometimes). This is when we must look to the One who is bigger than anything we are facing, the One who holds all things in His mighty hands, the One we can ALWAYS depend on. If we don’t do this then worry and anxiety creep in and take over and eat away at our quality of life and destroy our peace.

“Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 (NLT)

We can spend so much time trying to work things out in our heads and our hearts, going over and over the situation and what we can do about it and just like the Israelites we end up going round and round in circles. Instead we need to take our burdens, our trials, our suffering to the Lord, leave it with Him and TRUST that He knows exactly what He’s doing. And it’s not just the big things that we need to trust Him with but the intricate details of our lives too.

“Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight and understanding.” Proverbs 3:5 (Amplified)

I remember when I was pregnant with our first baby. My husband was finishing his year at Bible college and we were planning to move back to Leeds but had nowhere permanent to live. I started to worry and I couldn’t plan anything, I didn’t have a clue what my baby’s nursery would look like and we only had a few months to go before she was due. Then I was reminded of the time, a couple of years earlier, when we were in the same position and the wonderful flat that God provided for us. I knew I had to trust Him for a new home, and I knew I could trust Him because He had done it before for us.

Worry is the opposite of trust in God. Worry drags a lot of others things round with it but if we choose to trust in God then I believe our hearts and minds will be freed up to do the work of the Kingdom, knowing that He will take care of us.

“I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him…” (Romans 15:13)

Will you choose to trust God today in the small things and in the big things?

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Beautiful Things

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Abby| 18 Comments

By Abby King

…but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. Mark 4:19

Sometimes I feel it so strongly, the worries of this life crowding in. It’s not just my own concerns, but those of the people around me and the world in general. The disappointments, anxieties and injustices of life can weigh in heavy, choking the hope right out of a soul.

You make beautiful things, you make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things, you make beautiful things out of us

A flicker of hope appears around the edges of my mind, starts to seep into my soul.

You make me new, you are making me new

Maybe it’s ok if all is dust and ashes right now, because we know the One who makes beauty from ashes, and creates new life out of chaos. Maybe if I’m still for long enough, I will begin to hear His song again. Maybe the silence will begin to heal and retune my heart so I can join in with it, and sing it out to the world, to myself.

You make beautiful things, you make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things, you make beautiful things out of us

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Weakness, Love

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Abby| 4 Comments

By Sarah Schmidt

This last weekend I was preparing for a party with my siblings. We’ve been in the middle of some home improvements and so cleaning up the house was a pretty big effort. With a couple of hours to go, my husband told me I should go lie down for a while. I had wanted to, but was feeling the pressure to make everything perfect. I listened to him and immediately fell asleep for a half hour. Weakness.

Earlier this week, I’d had a busy day with volunteering at school and working on things at home. I had made dinner and as my husband and I were sitting at the table talking with the children as they finished their dinner, I fell asleep sitting at the table. Weakness.

It’s not that I don’t get enough sleep. Well, I probably don’t, but not so little that I should fall asleep at the dinner table. No, I have a health condition that means that I tire easily and quickly. I’m fine while I’m doing what I need to do, but then I crash. Sustained physical and social activity can be so draining that I simply have nothing left. It’s not uncommon for me to be asleep in a chair when I should be making dinner. Weakness is my constant companion. I fought it for a long time, denying its hold on me. I still do – I stay up too late, I try to fit too many things into one day, one week. But the weakness never leaves me. I can run, but I cannot hide; it will find me and leave me incapable of functioning, sometimes when I least want it to.

But weakness is not my only companion. On this journey of life, grace is with me also. Every single day, I think of this passage of Scripture:

And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me; but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Cor. 12:7-10)

On reading this, I have to admit that my first thought is “Really, St. Paul? You asked only three times?” But I have had to face weakness. And not only to face it, but be grateful for it. And not only to be grateful for it, but to boast in it. Because truly, I cannot do this “life” thing on my own. Other women can put up a good front and look like SuperMom. Not me. I fail way too often to put up any pretense of being strong. But amazingly, I have come to see my weakness as a gift.  My life would not be possible without the help and sacrifice of my family, my friends, my neighbors. My weakness is an opportunity for others to serve without any expectation of receiving something in return. There are many nights when my husband cleans the kitchen, even after he has worked all day at a sometimes difficult and stressful job. My children are learning that if they help out, I have energy to read a bedtime story. My mom picks the kids up from school and my neighbor welcomes them over to play on the weekend so they get out of the house and I have some quiet while I try to catch up on the things I wasn’t able to do during the week.

Sometimes it’s hard, though. I get frustrated with myself and I’ve been frustrated with God. I’ve asked Him, “How could You let this happen? I can’t even take care of my family!”

And the answer that always comes during that particular temper tantrum is

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1:2-4)

Gratefulness and faithfulness. Doesn’t it always come down to those two things? And really, it comes down to one more thing: Love. I believe that God loves me and that He loves my husband and my children. So if He has allowed this trial to be in our lives, and if it tests our faith, it is allowed in order to produce steadfastness and faithfulness. And we can choose whether to let it have its full effect. What is that full effect? That His strength may be made perfect in our weakness. When one of my children can’t do something, I smile and ask, “Can I help you?” And I love to help my children. My helping my child makes us both feel good. I think God feels the same way. His desire is to save us, not to hurt us, and so our weakness is an opportunity for us to ask Him, “Will you please help me?” And He does. He gives me grace to get up and do it all over again the next day. He gives my husband grace to love me, even when he can’t find clean trousers. He gives my children grace to hug me and tell me that I’m the best mom ever, even when I know that’s totally not true. All that is Love, isn’t it? God is Love and He shows me His power every day, not in spite of my weakness, but because of it. So I will glory in and boast of and be grateful for my weakness because in it I see the power of Love. Glory to God for ALL things.

Sarah is married to Mr. Wonderful (aka Rob), has three awesomely creative kids and an overly energetic dog. She loves books, coffee, food, books and oh yeah, the husband and kids. And books. She spends her days caring for said husband and kids, occasionally volunteering at school, and is trying to simplify her home so she doesn’t have to clean so much. She has a congenital heart defect and had a heart attack in 2006. She grew up in the evangelical church, wandered around for a while and finally landed in the Eastern Orthodox Church in 2001, where she has been quite happy being a bad Orthodox Christian ever since. 

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Palms Down Faith

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Abby| 15 Comments

By Teri Wetzel

Life is a tricky thing sometimes. Navigating the twists and turns, the joys and the disappointments can be precarious. The older I get, the more I realize there are really so many things in life I don’t understand, so many things I hold out to God with a question in my heart.

Cast your burden on the LORD,
and he will sustain you;
he will never permit
the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 55:22

I rely on this verse at times of uncertainty. God wants us to cast our burden, need, desire, care, question, or whatever is troubling, upon Him—that is to throw it to Him. That means we have to let it go. You cannot hold it, if you cast it away.

And if you do not hold it, it cannot hold you.

And that is really what our Lord wants. To have nothing hold us but our passion and desire for Him. Does that mean we are never to ask Him for things, for help, for healing? Of course not! I’ve read somewhere that we have not because we ask not…He does want us to ask. But I think He wants us to ask and leave it with Him. To hold our dreams and desires and even things we believe He has promised us with an open hand to Him. Not with a tightly clenched fist.

In fact, I read in a little book, given to me by a friend, (The Cycle of Victorious Living, by Earl and  Hazel Lee) about committing things to the Lord. Earl and Hazel were missionaries for many years in India. In the Marathi tongue a free translation of, “Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him …” Psalm 37:5 says “Turn what you are and what you have over to God—palms down!”

In other words, you take your request, question, desire, dream, etc., and offer it to God, open-handed, but not just holding the object out for God to take if He wishes…

…but with your palm facing down.

You cannot hold on to anything that way. You are entrusting—committing—surrendering—abandoning—it ALL to Him. Proving your trust in Him. Casting your care upon Him. Committing your way to Him. Surrendering to His will. Not trying to convince God that you know the best answer, or the best way, or the best time for Him to act. You leave it to Him. Allowing Him to act as God.

So often, in our humanity, we try to do things on our own. And so often we have no idea we are doing it! If I only hold on long enough…then God will give me what I want. As if that proves I am good enough to be blessed. Or somehow earned the answer to my prayer. There is so much self in that!

Maybe part of the purpose in letting us struggle with the big questions in life is so that we ultimately realize that we want HIM more than we want any answer to prayer. Or perhaps it helps us to see that we don’t. To see that something else has taken His rightful place in our lives. The tough ones to spot and root out are when the good things, desire for ministry opportunities, health, mates, children, etc. have become idols, usurping the Lord’s position in our lives.

I don’t know. I don’t have it all worked out yet. Maybe I never will, but I think great freedom, joy and power lies in surrender…in our giving up, laying down and trusting everything to Jesus. It is not just something nice we Christians say—it is something we must do. Every day. Because we so easily slip back to the altar and retrieve the things we’ve laid there.

It is not the strength of my faith, or my resolve, or my ability at all. It is the Lord who sustains me as I continue to surrender all to Him.

So cast your burden on the Lord today. Throw it to Him. Let go of it—palms down so it cannot hold on to you. His hands are waiting to receive it all. Abandon yourself completely to Him. And He will sustain you.

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Always seems to come back to this

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Abby| 6 Comments

By Julia Hare

I thought I would have learned these lessons by now, but I’m realizing that trusting is a life long journey, at least for me.

Personally, I’m not thrilled at the thought of throwing my body through mid-air and hoping someone catches me.  Trusting God and more so, trusting other people, tends to feel that way for me at times.  It takes a lot of courage to throw the deepest parts of your heart out into mid-air and trust that this person isn’t going to let those fragile things crash to the ground and shatter.  Fortunately, God is the ultimate safety net.  I’ve come to an understanding that the more I trust Him, the easier it is for me to trust others.

I was reminded recently of a chapter in Hinds Feet on High Places where the Shepherd is leading Much Afraid down a path that doesn’t look like the right way to her.  “Much-Afraid is horrified that she will have to give up all of her progress and walk even lower than the place where she began. For the first time on the journey, Much-Afraid begins to seriously consider giving up. She feels angry and resentful that she has worked so hard only to be sent down into a deep valley, farther away from the High Places than ever. For a few moments, Much-Afraid ponders the option of turning her back on the Shepherd…” (summary from bookrags.com).  The thought of living without His Love terrifies her to the point that she makes a firm decision to follow Him no matter what and trust that He knows what’s best. 

As I was writing this, I thought of the scene from Finding Nemo when Marlin and Dory are inside the whale.  Instead of just enjoying the ride and trusting that the whale was helping them, Marlin fought and resisted the very thing that he needed at just the right time.  Dory tells Marlin, “He (the whale) says it’s time to let go.”  Marlin says, “How do you know something bad isn’t going to happen.” to which Dory replies, “I don’t!”  This is a great scene with good lessons on trust and a good laugh listening to Dory (Ellen) ‘speak whale.’

For the past 9 months I have had a crash course in motherhood, fostering two children.  Letting go seems to be a theme of becoming a mother.  For those of us who are perfectionists and perhaps a little obsessive, it’s particularly challenging.  Kids interrupt and change the order of things.  They teach you what’s most important in life.  If you embrace it, you learn to let go of so many things that really don’t matter.  Beyond that, you have to learn to let go of them and trust that God will guide and protect them.  Whether that’s when you drop them off at school or when they enter the big world as their own person.  Releasing something precious to us into the care of another… that’s what trust is all about.  

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Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus, Casting Crowns

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Abby| Leave a comment

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The End of a Chapter

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Abby| 12 Comments

By Wendy Hitchen

Tomorrow marks the end of a chapter.  Tonight is the last night where I sit downstairs doing my own thing while my husband studies for his degree upstairs in the quietness of the spare room. Tomorrow morning he hands in his dissertation.  And this chapter in our life, the one titled ‘Bible College’, closes. We will celebrate together in various ways over the next couple of weeks, for this is something to celebrate. A real achievement.

As I look back over my life, I see that it is composed of several chapters. Some have been harder than others. However as I look back, I am reminded that the most challenging chapters have actually aided to deepen my walk with the precious Saviour, and change me from the inside out.

This last chapter, the Bible College chapter, the biggest chapter of our married lives, came as a complete surprise to me. Out of the blue one day in the autumn of 2007, my husband mentioned God was stirring his heart to study. I was not convinced. Not at all. Incredibly, my attitude totally changed. Over several  months it became clear that God was guiding my husband and I out of our steady, stable careers, and leading him into fulltime Bible study. When we visited the Bible College in question, my heart leapt. I knew that this next chapter was for us after all!

Three years still sounded like a long time. It meant leaving our jobs, renting out our house, moving to another town and another church, making new friends, and for my husband, studying again. It turned out that we ended up moving twice as the Bible College moved after a year! So we had another house to pack, another church to get to know and more friends to make.

The upshot? We have had a WONDERFUL three years. It has had its stresses at times, but largely it has been a joy from start to finish. My relationship with my husband is better than ever. We have learnt what it means to be there for each other in a new way. We have made some amazing friends. Already they have taught me so much as I see them work out their salvation in front of me. What an incredible blessing.  I have experienced a deeper walk with Jesus too, trusting Him in new ways and knowing His bountiful provision on all fronts. I have been reminded time and time again that He knows what is best for me. I can truly say….

“The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places” (Ps 16 v 6).

The chapter which I thought was a ‘no-go’ when it was first mentioned has become a truly defining chapter in my life. I am so grateful that God whispered into my heart and used various circumstances to enable me to see that this was the way forward. Not the way that I had planned, but the way that He had planned.  I am so glad for this ‘adventure’ (as my husband calls it), and I can look forward to the next chapter. Even though I am not entirely sure what it will look like, I know that the next chapter is guaranteed to be authored by the One who knows me best and has prepared the perfect life-story for me. So I look forward with anticipation.

 

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A Future and a Hope!

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Abby| 12 Comments

By Teri Wetzel

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11

Such wonderful words. So easy to receive and hold on to. I’ll bet many of you have grabbed hold of that scripture, at one time or another, as a word from God. Am I right? Don’t be afraid to admit it, I have!

It is a great promise.

Recently, I was reading through the book of Jeremiah and I saw it in context.

Wow.

It really changed the tenor of the verse for me.

In Jeremiah 28, a prophet, Hananiah, tells the exiled people of Jerusalem that their captivity in Babylon will end in two years. He tells them God has broken the yoke of oppression that He laid on their necks.

What a good word!

The road will be short (well, in our microwave culture, maybe two years doesn’t sound so brief, but they received it that way!). Hang on. This rough patch will be over very soon. Victory is nearly yours! Those are words to grab hold of when you are in a tough place.

Who wouldn’t want to receive that prophecy?! Who wouldn’t want to hear that the time of testing or trial is about to be over.

We all would, right?!

But God wasn’t so thrilled with it, actually.

He says through Jeremiah,

“Listen, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie”  (Jeremiah 28:15).

Ouch.

Trust in a lie? But it sounded so good… so hopeful… so like God.  Didn’t it!?

Apparently not every good sounding thing we hear is from God.

He tells the exiles through Jeremiah, “Hey, settle in folks. You are going to be here a long time. Build houses. Plant gardens. Get married and have babies. Find wives for your children and get you some grand-babies, too! Be a blessing, and you’ll be blessed. Don’t be deceived by your prophets, or their lies! Oh, and your captivity is not going to be TWO years, it will be SEVENTY!” (My loose paraphrase of Jeremiah 29:1-9.)

And then comes our oft-quoted verse,

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:11-13).

I don’t know about you, but I was struck by depth of the word — by the true, steadfast hope that is born in it. It’s not a happy-go-lucky sort of verse. It’s a “where the rubber meets the road” sort of verse.

God says, no, it’s not going to be easy. You are in this for the long haul. You are in a place you’d rather not be, but I will bless you. You will call out to me and I will hear you. You will find me in the midst of the challenge.

It may be hard to hear, but isn’t it actually so much better than believing the trial will be short and easily won…only to find yourself struggling through much longer than anticipated, wondering if God’s word is really true, or if you missed Him somehow?

Hearing from God is essential to maintain hope in the midst of challenging circumstances. But these chapters in Jeremiah highlight the importance of being certain the word we cling to is really from God— not just what our weary hearts want to hear.

Sometimes the prophet can be wrong (as in Jeremiah 28) … well-meaning, perhaps, but sadly, not sent by God.

Other times we might hear a word from the Lord, and as we receive it, build our own interpretation around it. We decide just what God meant and hold on to that…but I’m afraid that we are often off a bit. Maybe it’s just me, but God’s ideas and plans frequently look quite different from those I create. So while I’m  busy looking for the fulfillment of “my word,” I might just look past what God really intended.

We need to be sure we are trusting the Lord, and not believing a lie.

The road we walk is rarely easy, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t good. With the stability of God’s Word as our foundation, our steps needn’t be shaky, and unsure. How important is it that we really KNOW the Word, the whole Word, and not just the pithy, palatable verses?

It is vital.

If you find yourself in a place you’d rather not be right now, or your road has been especially challenging lately, take heart. Soak yourself in the Word of God. He will speak words of “a future and a hope” that are true—maybe not easy, but always good.

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We Are A Masterpiece

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Abby| 2 Comments

By Karri Nachtigal

I really like those mosaic tables that are made of broken glass, plates or tiles and have always wanted to make one.  One of my more “crafty” friends told me that they were quite easy to make, so I thought I might give it a try.

My first step was to Google directions about making the table.  As I was reading the directions and looking at all the pictures of the beautiful tables, God started speaking to my heart about how He viewed my brokenness and what He can and will do with it.

Step 1:  Gather as many broken pieces of glass, plates or tiles that you can find.

“People come to me when they realize how broken they are.  Didn’t you come to Me like that?”

When I came to God I was broken and I probably looked like a piece of     something most people would throw away.  Not to God, he picked me up from the floor, like a fragile piece of broken of glass, but instead of throwing me in the garbage, He polished me up and thought “I  could do something with this piece!”

Psalm 34:18  “The Lord is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

Step 2:  On some of the pieces you will need to use a tile or glass cutter, so that you can make the piece to fit into your pattern.

“That spot in your heart Karri is a little rough.  Let me smooth it out.”

God has had to use the “tile cutters” (sometimes we call it pruning) on me few times.  He is an artisan, so He is able to take off the sharp edges and mold me into the shape He needs me to be.  When I struggled with insecurity about my ability to do a job, He picked up His glass cutters and reminded me that “I can do all things, through Christ Jesus, who strengthens me” and sniped off that insecurity.

John 15: 2 “…while every branch that does bear fruit He prunes.”

Step 3:  Place the tiles where you want them to go.

“Karri, this is where I want you to be.  I know you don’t want to be here, but wait and see what      I can do.  See how you fit.”

This is where God uses His vision.  He already knows what the finished product will look like. ( I do not.)  He has the design all planned out.  He is the one who places me where I should go.  If  I try to fit into another spot, it ruins the design and I “don’t fit” there.  I need to go where He is placing me.

Jeremiah 29:11  “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord.”

Step 4:  Fill in the spaces with grout and remove the excess grout with water.

“See how the grout keeps everything in place.  This is my unity of the spirit.”

I don’t like grout.  It is messy and takes a while to clean off, but it is one of the more important steps for having a nice mosaic table.  Sometimes that is what coming to unity in the body of Christ can look like.  It’s not always easy and in fact it is sometimes down right messy, but it something we need to have in order to be a strong “table”.  Unity helps keep us in place, it helps us work together to show the world God’s masterpiece.

Psalms 133:1 “How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity.”

Step 5:  Display the finished product

“In my hands, you are moulded into the most beautiful masterpiece.”

I make the mistake of focusing on my brokenness, instead of looking a the whole masterpiece that is being created.  When I am given a glimpse into what the masterpiece is starting to look like, I can do nothing but be  in awe of what I see.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 “He has made everything beautiful in its time.  He has also set eternity in the  hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”

And this I know to be true..

when we come to Him broken, He sees our beauty…

when we are rough around the edges, He smooths us out…

when we feel like we don’t fit, He puts us in the perfect spot…

when we feel disconnected, He unifies us with others…

and displays us for the world to see.

Lord, help me to see my brokenness not as a failure, but as a part of the masterpiece created by the  Master Artisan.

 

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Absent Inspiration

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Abby| 3 Comments

By Sarah Field

“Be instant in season, out of season.” 2 Timothy 4:2

Before writing this very piece for the blog I was looking around for inspiration. I woke up searching around through the internet, thought about playing some worship music in the background, and prayed asking for some sort of spur to motivate a well-written and perhaps even “spiritual piece” that can in return inspire others.  Then I came along this verse in 2 Timothy where God is calling us to be instant even out of season.  This means being prompted and prepared even in our dry moments. Always searching for an inspiration so that we may feel like doing what we are meant to do can be a dangerous way of doing things. In fact, most things will not get done.

When I am very evidently feeling God’s presence I feel as if I want to go out and give it my all and am even more aware of the work to do around me.  Although, to be honest, I am not often inspired when looking at the small picture and I find myself looking for a wave of some sort to make me realize a deeper truth to push me forward.  Inspiration from the Holy Spirit is a gift and to use inspiration as a “fetish” actually is making a god of our best moments.

I believe God brings us into dry spells and inopportune seasons in our lives so that we may truly know God’s truth of love even when we don’t feel it; so that we may mature into a place to be faithful even in the seasons of our lives where we hate we are or are longing for something more. I must confess I complain and blame my surroundings for my lack of faithfulness in my life. I blame the fact that I have no inspiration or encouragement or challenge, but what a challenge that actually is – to live the truth that has already been proven to us. I don’t need inspiration to love God.  I need to live as if I know the truth that God is always with me, not just a spiritual feeling.

Things in life will try to bring our emotions down.  We also may be having great seasons where everything is going right. However, no matter what our season, let us fight to live prepared and prompted to bring the Kingdom of God in every place we step into. For your GLORY LORD!!!

 

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