Whatever the situation or position you might find yourself in where God is putting, pulling you to go deeper, be brave and let him stretch you is of course not something we want to be doing, but it is for our good. Although at the time the description of feeling good is not how you would describe it! I am in stretching mode and in a situation that you might think I like, but in the beginning that is not how I see or feel it. With God’s help and my trust and believing God, He will get me through and I will be so much Wiser, Stronger and Confident from it.

I really don’t talk much about it, it did take place 30 years ago and I can say I have moved on from that. Today however I will reflect and just speak off the cuff about how it happen and the many steps I had to take to be where I am today. To God all the glory!

In the middle, I seem to spend a lot of time in this place. A place I personally would like to rush right on through, but God has other plans. In this place of the middle, it seems that is were all the action of growing, dying takes place. I must use this time wisely, so this week I talk about giving God Glory in my middle instead of the many things that are very easy to do, but are not beneficial or pleasing for my walk with God. I turn my attention and talk about the how and why of what I do to past the time and get through the Middle.

We all have moments we have a choice, fear or trust. Are we hanging on to fear thinking we are stepping out into trust? Are we stuck because we don’t want to make the wrong choice? We know the word says we do not have the spirit of fear, but power, love and sound judgement…so we must cling to trust in God to get us through even when we feel we have no strength to do so.

Good days, Bad days- run to God. Definitely run as fast as you can when you are having a bad day, week, month, year. Don’t stay there. We were never to stay there in the valley, it was always for us to go through. Run to Him, Hold on to Him as we receive His strength in our weakness. We will have times we feel the weight is more than we can stand and we ask why, we need to just go to Him to get through instead asking the why or even worse doing nothing but give up. We are more than conquerors. Run to God so He can remind you through the Word of God who you are and who’s you are…this too shall pass.

Do you feel like you are in a rut or maybe you don’t even notice you are in a rut that in this season God is calling you out of. Is faith or trust what you have been leaning on or coasting and going through the motions in your walk with him. Even if you have no idea if you are either of those, I believe this word in this podcast will inspire you to seek God and see where you are at and how it is time to strep out, walk, then swim in what he has for you. He will carry you and be with you, you must trust and make the step to the place he has just for you. Today episode is a bit different, but I believe he is speaking to each of our hearts exactly where we are at and how we can dive in deeper with him.

In our walk with Jesus Christ we can have high moments and raw moments, moments we just don’t understand at all. In this journey not only finding and trying to the best of our abilities to use our gifts , we come to a place of needing / wanting the Real, wanting to stand out for Jesus and the Kingdom of God. Not to stand out for the many to be seen,but for God. Getting to a place we are ready to let go of anything to be all that he has place in us that God is daily trying to get us to pull out of ourselves- the real real of who we are in Christ Jesus.

As you pursue your gifts, seek God to perfect your gifts, have you wondered or focused on who your gifts are for. God equips us not just to equip us. He gives to us so freely and abundantly so we in turn will take it to His children who desperately need exactly what we have to give. We indeed are His hands and feet, His voice, but we must be willing and obedient to follow through. To learn, grow and be a willing vessel for the Kingdom of God all because of Love! Following in the footsteps of our Lord and Savor Jesus Christ as he did the same for all of us on the cross- All Because of His Love For Us.

Waiting on purpose….waiting upon the Lord. It is definitely something we all have moments we struggle with this. Trying to understand why so much time goes by, even sometimes feeling forgotten or overlooked, but we know God’s timing is perfect. It is the perfecting within us that he is wanting to work and why is that so hard for us, I will be speaking on how we can better use this time even though it isn’t the easier of things to do, it still is absolutely what we need so let embrace this together and become all we can be for the Kingdom of God!

Being brave, stepping out all for the Love of Jesus. The word tells us “it is better to obey than to sacrifice.” The funny thing is much of what our Father asks us to do he would never ask if he had not already given us everything to complete it. I explain my journey discovering my gifts and how I know he wants me to step out to use them and that includes hitting the record button to start this podcast journey, but it isn’t just about me, it is about you stepping out with what God has place in you to step out too.