I find my self wanting to give the "Welcome back to Bloggerland" speech but i think i just want to get straight down to business and pick up were i left off. i think however i left off in easters so i have a lot of ground to cover. i think there is one phrase i could used to some up the past month and that is God has been doing a whole lot. He's been doing so much in my life, so much in life's around me and in a lot of stuff i'm seeing.
The other week one of Bob Coy's messages was about Gods divine plans for peoples lives. This was a message that needed to be heard because I'm still currently at college in South Florida learning and growing to become a better worship leader, musician, and so many other things that have came out of nowhere but are forming me into a vision caster, a team builder, a planner, and much more. All this is leading me to Gods divine plan for my life, ever single experience, every single struggle and trial, even geography God is using is growing me into what He has planned. I am finding though that the closer and closer i get to Gods plan i feel faith being tested like never before. There's been many decisions in my life that i have made with faith but they didn't seem to have such a uncertain outcome as i'm feeling these days. These past months i've felt my faith tested like never before, and its opened up a whole different perspective of how faithless we can be. I will be the first to admit that in my past i have not trusted completely in God, i was not completely faithful, there's was usually my flesh in each of my decisions manipulating and working things out to benefit me. Now i am completely confident in admitting that and now i've realized and acknowledged how faithless i was God has worked my own planned right back into His, and He even is using each old selfish instance as wisdom. Thats what is amazing, that God blesses every situation. Don't get me wrong here, i wasn't a heathen and completely doing everything the complete opposite of what God wanted me to do but more times than not i would weigh the matters out on an earthly scale and then decide and in those times i lost the power of God and His provision for my life. Im at a point now, still being tested and tried daily, but my decisions are not my own, they come from a much higher council. I see Gods will for my life, i see what He's done in my past and what He is laying out for my future. The trick is however he only gives me a little bit to see, so that i can be encouraged but i also believe its a test to see if i will try to take life back into my own hands but i'm thankful i have realized that my hands hold no power or strength alone. I know that my strength is in Christ alone and that it all comes from faith. i don't know for certain where my foot will land upon my next step but i do know God is leading it and He will tell me when we get there.
*I would encourage anyone who has read this to take a look at your faith in your life. think about what you really give to God and what you cant seem to let go of (because lack of faith).
*Then think about when times were good due to a good decision and think if you were being faithful to God.
*I challenge you to weigh your faith in God, versus the faith in yourself and the world. if you are outweighed by yourself i would encourage to change the statistic and consider the plan that God had in store for you when you submit to his will for you.
Submitting is not an easy thing for us, weve been rebelling our whole lifes. We are to proud to bend our stiff necks and humble ourselves before one another. But thats exactly what we need to do. That is being faithful to God, and that is what will bring you peace.
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