Ready....Set....G....

Ready....Set....G....

     You are all set. You know the plan in your head, and you have everything ready to go, but the moment it is time to go, something stops you. Suddenly that well thought out plan doesn't seem so well thought out. Your not sure the details are right, you're not sure that everything will work out. You sit down and question all the decisions you made that led you to this door. This door that suddenly you can't open. 

     I know this feeling. I know it all to well and I can tell you that, this kind of thinking will get you no where fast. Fear. This is what stops you and fear is not of God, it is from satan. I had things ready, I was set to go and the kids were even on board with this move and suddenly I couldn't do it. What had seemed like a sure thing, a good thing and the best thing, suddenly seemed like the worst thing. I couldn't do it. All these doubts started creeping in. What if I can't do it? What if I fail? What if...what if...what if... The moment I started to doubt, everything fell apart. I didn't know and I wasn't sure. I didn't trust God to provide. 

     Romans 8:28 says, "and we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them." God is our provider and we need to trust in Him and know that He is for us not against us. He wants us to succeed and to prosper. Not to fail, Satan wants us to fail. As a certain preacher I know says in his testimony (it is amazing and everyone should hear it), "Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy". This is satan's plan for us not God's. 

    The other night during a weekly movie night with this certain preacher, we were watching the Giver and I made a comment about how the person's view was a little pessimistic and this certain

preacher looked at me and asked how often I was optimistic. This certain preacher knows me pretty well. Honestly I am more optimistic than I let on, and this was my reply. We need to be inwardly and outwardly optimistic, but we also need to know when God is telling us to go and when he is telling us to sit still.

    Psalms 37:5 says, "commit everything you do to the Lord and He will help you." Amen! The biggest thing we need and it only needs to come in the smallest form; a mustard seed, is faith. Jesus said in Matthew 17:20, "You don't have enough faith. I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move. Nothing would be impossible." Do you have mustard seed faith? I know this something I struggle with daily. I know in my head, God can move mountains, and He will provide and He can provide, I need to cement it in my heart too. 

     My prayer for today is for God to help me with my faith. I don't need proof He exists, I know He does. I see Him every time I look at my children. In the rain that falls and in the sun that shines. I see Him in the smile of the homeless lady I give a Starbucks coffee and Santa cookie too every year. (I only ever see her at Christmas time). I seem Him in a certain preacher when he smiles. I know in my mind and my heart that God exists, now I need to know in my heart that He will provide the way and the means, even if I can't see them. 

Ready....Set....Go!

     There may be a lot of unknowns, but I know that with God I can do this. I can make this move and everything, even a certain preacher, will fall into place in God's time. I may not know what the future holds for me, I may not see the exact ways it will all fall into place, but my Faith in Him will make it happen. God will make it all work out for His glory.  So I say to you, GO! Don't hesitate like I did. I am not hesitating this time! We are going and God will provide for us! This I know in my heart and in my mind.

Until the next Scribble.....