Waiting on God – Is it a Mystery or is it Reality?

Waiting on God – Is it a Mystery or is it Reality?

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the
Lord. Psalm 27:14
 
If, there is anything we don't like to do, it’s to wait. However there is something purifying about remaining strong in tough times and remaining faithful when you don’t see the answer to our prayer. I believe that God uses times of waiting to see if our search is really for him or merely for something new or easy. The reality is that God has waited on us to answer the knock on our hearts; He waits for us to arise from slumber and have a rendezvous with him through prayer. He waits for us to understand and realize that his love is real and everlasting; he waits on us to trust Him. He waits on us to stop complaining and to start confessing that Jesus is Lord. He waits on us to act more mature. Our prayer today should be a Help me as I wait for you to show me the way with my decisions, to act to relieve my need, and to reveal your presence in my loneliness.

I realize that waiting does not have to be a mystery. It is not some elusive experience that we just have to sit idly by just twiddling our thumbs. The bible says that faith without works is dead. We should be in an active stance while we wait. We should always ensue that our lamps are always ready with the oil of joy. To wait is to be in ready expectations because God never disappoints but always delivers right on time, He is never to early nor is He ever late. We can trust that He will manifest, so while you wait, work, watch and continue to pray. There is a blessing in the waiting. Trust and Believe.  Are you tired, weary and about to give up? Hold on just a little while longer and remember that God’s word is life.

Matthew 11:28 (Message)

"Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."

Trusting without a Trace: Don't Throw away your confidence?

Trusting without a Trace: Don't Throw away your confidence?: "Do you believe that God love’s You? Do you recognize his love on a daily and consistent basis? Sometimes it is hard to trust a God that yo..."

Don't Throw away your confidence?

Do you believe that God love’s You? Do you recognize his love on a daily and consistent basis?

Sometimes it is hard to trust a God that you cannot see. Sometimes we have a desire to feel a certain emotion before we believe that God has visited us. If we don’t shake and shiver we feel like we have not been touched by the Almighty. Trusting means even when we don’t feel, smell, touch, tasted or even heard we still believe. We often want to use our 5 natural senses to have an encounter with God and then we believe. There have been times when I have prayed and I say God speak to me, I wait and wait and wait and for some things I am still waiting for that audible voice. I have come to realize that the lover of my soul speaks to me is such a sweet loving whisper, at times if I am sensitive enough it feels like a warm embrace and a cool breeze brushing against my cheek and then I know beyond a shadow of a doubt He is near.

But there have been times that he seems silent and I have to wonder did he even hear me. I then have to be reminded that His ways are not my ways and his thoughts are not my thoughts, they are much higher, thankfully so because sometimes my mind does not function at its peak. But in those moments when doubt wants to step in, my lover says, “honey I am here, delay is not denial.” And then that peace that passes all understanding stays with me. You see I then have to deliberately remove my eyes off of time, space and the issues and fix my eyes on my source. I say deliberate because our actions towards trusting God should be a deliberate and intentional act.  It is an act that we have to train ourselves to experience every day. We have to train our selves to think positive, to trust in a God that can deliver, a God that cannot lie nor change His mind about us, because as a man thinketh so is he.

I feel like I am in Boot Camp, cause in this training there is pain, there is soreness and there is stretching, but there is growth and building. Stay encouraged my family and friends. The God, who said he would do it, will indeed do it. So do not throw away your confidence, don’t give up, your midnight is about to come and He will turn it all around for you.

Do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God,
you will receive what he has promised.
-- Hebrews 10:35-36

The Faith Factor

The Faith Factor

The bible says faith is the substance of things hope for the evidence of those (same) things not seen Hebrew 11:1 It also says without faith it is impossible to please God, because you first must believe that he (even) exists and then that He is a rewarder to them that diligently seek Him Hebrews 11:6

You could either embrace those words as reality coming from the living WORD or you could curl up into a ball of confusion and try by yourself to make things happen. There was a time in my live when Faith to me was quite spooky, when I say spooky I believed only that the real righteous, anointed, sanctified halo wearing Christians were the ones who received by believing.  I had the total opposite and I feared rather than trusted or had confidence in this God of my mother.

Yes that was just it, God was my mother’s God cause even though I went to church, functioned in ministry and talked a good game, this Jesus only really really really and truly became a reality when I became naked and unashamed, when I allowed him to take all of me. In order to trust the master I had to realize that He had the master plan for my life. I had to stop trying to figure it out and let Go and Let God (mind you there are still times I still don’t know what that means.

I have a very curious mind, a mind that operates quite logically and calculative, so you tell me something and then I have to ask the why, when, what for, how come and really questions. I need to figure it out and see it before I can believe it. However, referring to the scripture on what faith is you can understand why I had and sometimes still do struggle. I have to believe before I see. I am growing in Grace and Grace is teaching me that I can trust without seeing, trusting without even knowing. I can basically trust without any trace. That is a tall order but it involves daily, what am I saying? Who am I fooling? For me it involves second by second, situation by situation applying and surrendering of my will. So I say Not my Will Lord Thy Will be Done. Before you think I am all that and a bag of chips on the faith radar at the end of that sometimes (more times than I would like to admit) comes so when Daddy, when will my inheritance take the form of a husband (LOL).

Yes I said it; I know you all were thinking it though. Mind you I want date and specifics, but is that truly faith in the master plan. For I know the plans I have for you said the lord, plans to prosper you and to do you no harm, to give you hope and an expected end Jeremiah 29:11.

What do you expect from you Father my dear Bloggers??????

Because the more you trust the more you increase that faith muscle.

Over and Out – Grace and Peace until next time.



Daddy Issues

OK so I know I said that I had to approach God as Daddy which helps me to trust Him better. Welllllll what I didn’t tell you is that this was not always easy and there are still days that it is not. You see, I grew up without a father in the home because he died when I was a baby, and that has left me empty and looking for love in some of the wrong places.

Hence the reason I hooked up with a knuckle head – he knows who he is, the good thing about this blog is that I know that knuckle head (I really want to say something else here hmmmmmmm) is not reading this. Little did I know that the nameless knuckle head was stuck in being a kid syndrome and could not be daddy for me cause I was too grown and thus he needed someone younger to daddy, he visited the daycare often Lol.

Anyways getting back on track, I made many bad and irresponsible decisions because I did not have that man to guide me. So God stepped in and held me and comforted me. Originally, I would approach him as a father who would be absent if I was not good enough, but He did not and so when I didn’t know where to find Him, he found me.

This is a journey but it became more real to me when I came home one day and was able to say “wow daddy you son is fineeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” yep I was talking about one of his fine creations (men)………..zzzzzzzzzz, oh oh sorry I drifted of for a minute.

 I am back yeah where was I, yeah learning to trust God and knowing that He promised that he will never leave me nor forsake me is tough, but when I don’t know he is there, when I cannot feel his presence I just have to trust him at His word. So for all the daughters out there who feel Daddy less, He is the ultimate and His arms are big enough for all of us. I continue to journey and continue to uncover myself as a Daddy’s Little Girl.

Where you at Mighty Blogger, do you feel me on this one?

Peace out until next time.

Beginning at the Beginning - Trust what is it????

Webster's Dictionary describes trust as:

1. 
   
   Reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence. confident expectation of something; hope.
2. 
   
   confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust.
3. 
   
   A person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths" (Proverbs 3:5,6).
What say you mighty BLOGGER, What is trust to You?