This week the Lord has been speaking to me a lot about faith! I don’t have the time to get into all of the things that He is showing me or teaching me, but there is one thought that I want to share for whoever or whatever.

Faith is about trusting God. Faith is about wanting more than anything – the thing that God wants for and from you.  Faith is trusting in God’s will and wisdom above and beyond your own!  We mess up faith when we start putting our stuff into it, so be careful!

Many times this week, I have read how God performed extraordinary miracles in ordinary people’s lives. He healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, raised the dead and even allowed a hard headed disciple to walk on water.  In each situation the miracle of God was performed in response to His people’s faith.  When God’s people have faith – God’s power moves in and through their lives.

We must wait on God, but when He speaks, we must be ready to move and we must move. Our moving in response to His speaking is a key that unlocks the miraculous! So there are two things that are important here:  1.)  Make sure that you are listening for and to God.  Don’t do anything until you are sure that you have heard His voice and received His direction.  Once you have heard His voice and received His direction:  2.)  Move!  Start stepping in whatever direction He is leading!  Our movement puts feet to our faith and gets the whole process headed in the right direction!

If you were outside having a party with your friends and you knew that a bad storm was about to come up – what would you do? Would you continue to party and pretend that the storm was not coming or would you get everything up and everybody to safety?  The answer to the question should be obvious.  Most of us would answer the question by saying that we would get everything up and everybody to safety, but I am not sure that this is always the truth.

You see my friends – there is a storm coming! We can hear the thunder and see the lightning and we know that we have a decision to make.  Will we continue to live our lives outside of God’s will, pretending that everything is alright or will we start to get things in order by making sure that we are really right with God.

I see people everyday that live life according to their terms, all the while playing the pretend game of acting like they care about what God wants. If we really care about what God wants, then it will change the way that we are living our lives!  Almost everyday of my life – God reveals something that I need to deal with.  When I deal with the things that He is pointing out, I am blessed and fulfilled, but when I fail to deal with the things that He is pointing out, I am frustrated and disappointed.

I believe that it is God’s desire for us to experience happiness. I believe that often times a storm will blow into our lives to try and encourage us to do the right thing.  If you find yourself in the midst of a storm, don’t miss your opportunity to get everything up and everybody to safety!  Storms don’t have to be a bad.  Storms can actually be good, if you will allow them to influence your life in the right way!  What storm is blowing into your life and what are you going to learn from it?

Just sitting here listening to the crickets and thinking about what a crazy busy day that this has been. I started out early at the hospital visiting a lady with heart problems.  She is okay and is going to have her problems treated with medicine.  I then spent some time talking/counseling several different people, all with a different set of problems or what I like to call challenges.  I sometimes wonder if any of the talking does any good?  I know and trust in my heart that it does and so I will stay with it!  From there I moved into taking care of office stuff – some study, writing and a little administration.  It really is amazing all that has to get done every week – just to make the usual stuff happen.

Most of my days are like this – busy moving from one thing to the next with very little time in between the events to stop and really process all that is going on. This is one of the reasons that my time with God in the early morning is so important!  And this is also one of the reasons why now a days I find myself trying to have an evening time with God before I head to bed!

I know that most of you that read this post are very busy with your own lives and challenges. And I just wanted to take a moment to remind you and encourage you to have a morning and evening time with God!  This time, more than anything else that I can think of, helps to make sure that your life stays in alignment with God and His will for your life!

If you are interested, then maybe in the days ahead, I will share a little information about how I spend my time with God during these times. Until then – if you have not already done so, carve some time out of your schedule to invest some time with God at the beginning and end of your day – you will be very glad that you did!