Move Over!

I have never thought of myself as an adventurous person!  I am very predictable.  I get up at the same time every day, whether I work or not.  I eat the same thing for breakfast every day; a bagel or oatmeal-YES I know I am also very exciting!  Oh and coffee!  The high test kind no decaf for me!  When I walk I go the same place, when I listen to music I rarely put it on shuffle.  I often get a song on my mind and it’s on repeat for 2 miles!  I watch the same movies on TB, I even find myself reading the same book of the Bible!  If I find a verse I really like, I stay in that chapter until I wear it out then I venture out into the rest of that book until I exhaust it.  I do get a little crazy with my beverages now and then.  It’s usually a diet coke but on occasion I mix it up with a diet Mountain Dew!

But when it comes to my faith, I am steadfast for sure, that doesn’t change.  But I have in the last year learned to not control it.  I have become adventurous!  And I did it when I wasn’t looking.  I have to analyze everything to death.  Why-when-where-when-when-when!  I am trying to do that thing everyone says, “Let Go and Let God”.  But I am here to tell ya it is not as easy as it sounds.  That’s where my adventure comes in.  I have just let “stuff” I am praying about go!  I ask questions and He never leaves me without an answer!  So I finally caught on!  OK, ask and ye shall receive, right?!  It’s that easy!  He has answered every question and not with that, “Oh yeah I think I got it” or a warm and fuzzy feeling!  I have been given scripture by Jesus Christ to answer all my questions.  And I have come to rely on that.  I am tired of answering my own questions when His answers are so much more!  He promises and He delivers!

I had to step out on that unwavering faith though.  And it was scary; like I would have imagined Peter when walking on the water.  But I stayed on that water.  I didn’t look back!  And what He is telling me is so much more than I could’ve ever imagined!  God is just so good!

1 Corinthians 2:9

King James Version (KJV)

⁹ But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him

He wants us to have everything, like it is Christmas every day.  But we stand in our own way.  It is beyond me why we do it!  This week I have literally moved over so that He can stand right beside me and He whispers in my ear, “Now is the time” and I have to say, it is an amazing feeling.  To trust someone so deeply that you can walk hand in hand, heart to heart!  Knowing they always have your best interest at heart.  You never have to worry about what someone is going to say about you because if God is working His plan, He has everything ahead of you worked out already.  Just makes things less messy.  No clean up, no cover up!  If we could all just get in the center of His will and do what He says life would be a Utopia!

When you really want to do the Lords will-what He has planned for your life-He will move Heaven and earth to show you the way!  No matter what He does- for example a relationship- He will take that relationship to heights you can never imagine if you stay I His will!  Let Him be the guide, not you.  He will use you to do great and marvelous things for His kingdom.  All we have to do is get out of the way and let Him lead!  Let Him whisper in our ears and then obey Him when He says, “OK its time, this is what we’re gonna do!”

“I just want to be more like Jesus to lose my selfish desires and to be found in Him”     Unknown

Matthew 21:21

King James Version (KJV)

²¹ Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done

I am faithful to my God!  I do what He asks of me, even though I don’t understand sometimes why.  He always reveals to me the why-in His time!  Relationships always have puzzled me and I am beginning to understand why.  It is because we are in the way.  We want what we want.  We pray for what we want.  Even though we don’t know what’s best for us and then when we don’t get it, we take it out on God.  It was never part of His plan in the first place, it was our plan.  I know what His will is for my life now; I have endured and stayed the course.  He has revealed to me what, and so now I just wait to receive the promises!

Hebrews 10:35-36

King James Version (KJV)

³⁵ Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.

³⁶ For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

For I am greatly blessed, highly favored, and deeply loved       Matthew 5:3

Isaiah 64:4

New King James Version (NKJV)

⁴ For since the beginning of the world
Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,
Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,
Who acts for the one who waits for Him.