FAITH

Do you know what???

God is good! He is just so good!

He is faithful to restore my dreams. He is faithful to fill me up with hope. He is faithful to overfill me with joy.

He is the reason I sing.

He is the reason I rock out in my car.

He is the reason I whirl around recklessly in my room.

He is my joy and my salvation!

I am SO in love!

I can't get over how in love with Jesus I am! Like a blushing bride, I am eager to see His face, to hear His voice, to feel His touch. Oh, how my heart longs for Him when I feel distant....when I go on a trip away from Him. But He is always waiting right there when I come back and so often He chases me down and won't let me go away without kissing me one more time...which makes me change my mind and stay close by His side.

I just think He's so awesome! :D

I've been so challenged this week, challenged by circumstances, situations, emotions, etc., but I've been trying to count it all joy....and now, finally, I'm not just "counting it as joy", it IS JOY!!!!

I've been thinking lately about this whole "faith the size of a mustard seed" or "faith like a child" or "faith to move mountains" or "faith to walk on water" or that whole "you will do greater things than I".

Really?? Could I really move a mountain?? Can I really walk on water??? My faith is bigger than a mustard seed---I've seen God do miracles! I know what He's done for me!!! I see His hand in my life all the time. Bigger than a mustard seed. My faith is like a child's! I can't help but smile and even giggle in His presence. I am constantly in awe at what my big God can do. I have faith like a child.

So let's move some mountains! Think I'm kidding?? I most certainly am not!

Hmm....what are the mountains in my life that I want to move?......

Fear of the unknown. Anxiety. Finances.

Mountain of Fear--MOVE!

Mountain of Anxiety--MOVE!

Mountain of Finances--MOVE!

Crash into the sea all of you! Be gone forever!!!!!

Hmmmm....what are the seas that I need to walk over, unhindered by the waves around me?

The future. Stress.

Sea of the Future--I will not slip on your waves!

Sea of Stress--I shall not drown in you!!!

Be prepared to be walked over!

For my God shall supply ALL my needs according to HIS riches and glory through CHRIST JESUS.

This life holds so much more than meets the eye. It's time to claim it in Jesus' name. So many things will try to drag me down. It's time to call out the name of JESUS, to speak PEACE BE STILL in the midst of my storm, and to have the faith of child to KEEP MOVING FORWARD.

It doesn't matter what tomorrow brings. God is faithful.

It doesn't matter that plans fall through. God is faithful.

It doesn't matter that doors slam in my face. God is faithful.

It doesn't matter that doubts try to creep in. GOD IS FAITHFUL.

He is faithful to complete what He has started. Well, He started me 23 years ago and He is finished yet!!!!

God made me with a specific vision in mind. He has a purpose for my life. And I am SO OPEN to His leading. Wherever, whenever, whatever. I mean that with all my heart.

I don't need to be astonishing for the world. I don't need to be astonishing for myself. I don't need to be astonishing for God. But I think I will be astonished when I look back at what God has done with my life.

I have faith because God loves me. I have faith because God has been faithful to me. I have faith because everything within me rejoices when I even THINK about Him.

Faith like a child. Faith like a bride. Faith.

Lord, use your servant, so full of joy, eager to complete your will, loving to sit at your feet, longing for more of you, and faithful to the end.