I've been exhausted over the last couple of months...and I don't think I just realized how exhausted until this week when I've had a chance to rest. I wish I could tell you the to-do list was completed this week, but rest won. My soul is full though and my heart is happy. If you don't know you can be exhausted in more ways than physical, well that's a blog for another day. I've had writer's block during this exhausted time...more so than I realized. This morning though God in His perfect way started writing a blog.
I was WIDE awake in the early morning hours and tried to watch a movie to sleep. God brought the woman with the issue of blood to mind. I was like okay God where is this going.....but I decided to just listen. Then He took me back to a time in service last Sunday and used it to engrain a truth on my heart. The woman with the issue of blood knew who Jesus was and that's why she pressed through that day to get to Him. Y'all don't read that and just let it go in one ear and out the other. She didn't just know about Jesus, but she knew Him otherwise, would she have taken the risk to press through the crowd that day and get to Jesus. I'm not so sure but she knew Him and she knew that if He had done it for others, He could do it for her.....she just had to get to Him. Sometimes we want so desperately for someone else to press through for us and clear the way, but sometimes God's going come on child...press into until you get that touch. Yeah, it's deep.....I've had the week off and been able to finally listen. When we experience that press....that push in prayer that leads us to that place where we hear Him call us Daughter. That's not found in any denomination or bylaws of a church....but in a relationship with the One who knows all of your mess and still loves your beautiful self!
It's sometimes not a huge thing that overwhelms us over time, but the little foxes that can spoil the vine. This woman had dealt with her mess for a time, but she knew what she had to do and she wasn't going to let anything distract her. The end result.....she not only got her healing, but He called her Daugther. (Don't miss that part....). God knows where you are at right now sweet reader.....and He's saying don't let the distractions keep you from me. It's not about what anyone else says, how they do things, or even what will keep them happy...press through daughter.
I could keep writing, but I'll end this here.....Do you, not the you that pleases everyone, but the you that pleases Him. What He's called you to and the steps He's ordered for you may not always make sense to everyone else.....but that's okay. I think sometimes we expect people to know our story based on the chapter they joined in without giving them the chapters they missed.....and that's a blog for another day.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Sunday, November 4, 2018
Sunday thoughts...
What's God put on the inside of you that you are still waiting to see come to pass? What dreams has God promised that He's saying don't give up on? God's timing and our timing are not always in sync.....but when He shows up.
I know it's the first post in over a month, but October was a blur. Don't get me wrong I had a lot of fun and made some amazing memories, but I feel like I barely stopped to take a breath. Y'all that will wear you out in ways you didn't know you could be worn. God is faithful....and somewhere in the midnight hours this past week, He's whispered in.
Sometimes we see the fire starting to lose its flame. We do what we can in our place to move the wood around, to add some fuel to it, but our best intentions only last for a moment. However, when God's wind blows through.....there is a roar that comes back that is a flame that says keep moving, I've got you.
So many times we try to complicate what Jesus died to uncomplicate. Live love in front of this world and they will see Him. They aren't looking for a perfect person to preach truth to them, but they are longing to see a forgiven person demonstrate grace. The truth will come in time. God didn't heal the wounded places for you to keep those places covered. Real and authentic is what this world is longing to see.....The rocks are getting restless when we stay silent. The rocks are getting antsy when they see us not catch on to what God is doing. God's not looking for another program to work through, He's looking for a people to shine through.
There was a devotional I read through this past week based off the song Known by Tauren Wells. If you have the app and haven't read this one, I highly encourage it. It was amazing and so on time, I can't even begin to speak it. It was the pop to the insecurity bubble that had begun to form again and the reminder that this blog needed some time from me even if it was just a short post.
Tonight I'm thankful for a fire fueled by not me. I'm thankful for grace and mercy that are filled up every morning when the day seems to deplete my share. I'm thankful for a loving push to get back focused on what He said. I don't know where you are at this evening, but God does. Praying He whispers what your heart needs and if it's a push that you lovingly get back going. I've learned more times than I should have had to over the last few years, God won't move your feet for you....but He will get you to a point where you will move your on and then the rest is His to put into place.
I know it's the first post in over a month, but October was a blur. Don't get me wrong I had a lot of fun and made some amazing memories, but I feel like I barely stopped to take a breath. Y'all that will wear you out in ways you didn't know you could be worn. God is faithful....and somewhere in the midnight hours this past week, He's whispered in.
Sometimes we see the fire starting to lose its flame. We do what we can in our place to move the wood around, to add some fuel to it, but our best intentions only last for a moment. However, when God's wind blows through.....there is a roar that comes back that is a flame that says keep moving, I've got you.
So many times we try to complicate what Jesus died to uncomplicate. Live love in front of this world and they will see Him. They aren't looking for a perfect person to preach truth to them, but they are longing to see a forgiven person demonstrate grace. The truth will come in time. God didn't heal the wounded places for you to keep those places covered. Real and authentic is what this world is longing to see.....The rocks are getting restless when we stay silent. The rocks are getting antsy when they see us not catch on to what God is doing. God's not looking for another program to work through, He's looking for a people to shine through.
There was a devotional I read through this past week based off the song Known by Tauren Wells. If you have the app and haven't read this one, I highly encourage it. It was amazing and so on time, I can't even begin to speak it. It was the pop to the insecurity bubble that had begun to form again and the reminder that this blog needed some time from me even if it was just a short post.
Tonight I'm thankful for a fire fueled by not me. I'm thankful for grace and mercy that are filled up every morning when the day seems to deplete my share. I'm thankful for a loving push to get back focused on what He said. I don't know where you are at this evening, but God does. Praying He whispers what your heart needs and if it's a push that you lovingly get back going. I've learned more times than I should have had to over the last few years, God won't move your feet for you....but He will get you to a point where you will move your on and then the rest is His to put into place.
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