Wednesday, January 11, 2006
I originally started this entry last night but blast it all!! I didn’t have a CD to save the entry to so I could easily post it to this site today! AND I don’t have internet service at home so you can surely imagine my dilemma!!! Okay enough of that and on to the reason I am writing today.
Every year my church has a corporate fast; we all take 7 days together to seek the Lord. We turn off our televisions put down our novels and our newspapers withhold at least one meal a day and look to God for direction in the New Year. I always look forward to the fast, God always shows Himself so strong in the time we set aside and consecrate to Him. In the 3years I have been participating God has always shown me what I need from Him.
I was thinking about personal testimonies on the way to work today, it is interesting to me how one person’s story can touch many people in various ways. Our minds may want to tell us that we can only minister to those who are like us but God can take one story and out of that speak a hundred different truths to those that are listening. Last night the pastor was talking about his resistance to God’s call on his life, he said a lot of things about it but in the end made a point that struck me, he said that not everyone will want to resist the call on their life; many people truly want to do the thing that God has called them to and because of that wanting end up believing it is not truly His will because the want to do it so much. (I hope that makes sense) I guess in a nutshell he was saying that some of us will never fulfill the call of God on our lives because we think the dream He has given us it too good to be true so we assume it wasn’t His idea in the first place. That my dear people is a lie! God places those dreams inside of us for a reason and they are always going to be so amazing and so good that we won’t be able to believe it possible but with God ALL things are possible if we will only believe! That realization is so freeing to me, I have often felt the dream inside my heart was prideful and wrong. I have fought with that feeling many times over the years yet the dream remains unchanged and the desire does not wane. It is always so affirming to hear a pastor say something that lets us know our desires are not wrong when they are centered on the Lord. It is good to know that my dream is not my own but the call of God.
So I guess in closing I will say follow that dream that has been steeping inside you for so long, because if it honors God and blesses people then it is your destiny!
Every year my church has a corporate fast; we all take 7 days together to seek the Lord. We turn off our televisions put down our novels and our newspapers withhold at least one meal a day and look to God for direction in the New Year. I always look forward to the fast, God always shows Himself so strong in the time we set aside and consecrate to Him. In the 3years I have been participating God has always shown me what I need from Him.
I was thinking about personal testimonies on the way to work today, it is interesting to me how one person’s story can touch many people in various ways. Our minds may want to tell us that we can only minister to those who are like us but God can take one story and out of that speak a hundred different truths to those that are listening. Last night the pastor was talking about his resistance to God’s call on his life, he said a lot of things about it but in the end made a point that struck me, he said that not everyone will want to resist the call on their life; many people truly want to do the thing that God has called them to and because of that wanting end up believing it is not truly His will because the want to do it so much. (I hope that makes sense) I guess in a nutshell he was saying that some of us will never fulfill the call of God on our lives because we think the dream He has given us it too good to be true so we assume it wasn’t His idea in the first place. That my dear people is a lie! God places those dreams inside of us for a reason and they are always going to be so amazing and so good that we won’t be able to believe it possible but with God ALL things are possible if we will only believe! That realization is so freeing to me, I have often felt the dream inside my heart was prideful and wrong. I have fought with that feeling many times over the years yet the dream remains unchanged and the desire does not wane. It is always so affirming to hear a pastor say something that lets us know our desires are not wrong when they are centered on the Lord. It is good to know that my dream is not my own but the call of God.
So I guess in closing I will say follow that dream that has been steeping inside you for so long, because if it honors God and blesses people then it is your destiny!
