A listening ear

The other day I was under a bit of stress and confusion about a few things. It was really interesting at how God totally took the situation and redirected my focus back on Him. I am so excited to see how God speaks, when I am willing to turn my ear to Him. I love that God desires my attention and He will do WHATEVER it takes to get to my heart. I love that God loves me that much that He desires my undivided attention. So when I decided to listen He spoke VERY clearly. I was supposed to go and visit my sister and her family, but plans got changed and so in that very moment I had a choice to make. I could get really upset, which really had no warrant, or I could choose joy and realize that God had something else for me to do that night. I made myself available to God and He made things incredible. I love that God has His way every time. I was sitting there trying to figure out what I needed to read and God spoke again. He asked me to read Habakkuk and since I have not ever read that book all the way through, I was obedient. It was amazing. I suggest that if you haven't read it then you need to read it, but I am not here to talk about that book today. I just want you to see what God is doing in me to prepare me for the journey I am taking. Both spiritually and physically God is training my ear for His voice alone. This has happened before but in a different way and I am so excited to see how this is going to play out. I just want to remind you to make yourself available to God. I want you to remember, like I need to remember, that God is just waiting for me to make myself available. I want to remember that He will do amazing things in me, through me, and for me. BUT I have to be attentive, available, and obedient. Trust me, the listening ear that I have now hasn't always been there. It takes time and more importantly effort on my part and the willingness to be wrong. I choose to make myself available and I choose to be attentive. I hope that you choose to listen too, your life will be changed forever.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Perseverance vs. Endurance

Image
Endurance is something I normally associate with sports, but really in the bible endurance is something that is to wait out the storm to wait it out and know that things will change. Waiting for things to change but just sitting back and riding out the storm. I have endured a lot of things but what does that really show about my character? Nothing except that I know how to wait things out sometimes. That I can sit back and ride the wave, or have a bit of patience for things to change. Although endurance is good in sports and beneficial when you need to wait on something, it isn't what defines character. It isn't what makes good stories. Who wants to sit and listen to someone tell you a story about them sitting and waiting for things to change, who wants to tell a story like that? I sure don't. When I tell a story I want it to be a good story but Epic stories like the Titanic come from something other than endurance. If those people on the boat would have done nothing but en
Read more

Warring further still...

Image
Knowing that this season in my life is where it should be is probably easier to accept, than for me to accept the truths of what God Himself has spoken to me about the future. I will tell you that what I am walking through is difficult and hard, but what God has spoken to me is even harder. Not because it will be painful, although I am sure it will be at times, but because of the reality and gravity of what it is. I am in a season of prepping, I believe, in my life for the next season of living out what I know God has said. He has given me direction in many areas of my life and yet I am in this waiting game. Tonight I was reminded that as Jesus had the cross before Him, those hours in the garden right before were necessary. He needed to go and seek the face of His Father. He needed to go further still. (Matt. 26:38-39) He wrestled with the dread for the task He was about to undertake. I know that God isn't asking us to take on all the sins of the world for all the ages ever to be,
Read more

1 Thes. 5:16-18

Image
"Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." 1 Thes. 5:16-18 NIV How simple are these three verses and yet we think that there is so much more we need to do, for us to be in God's will. We take them in and let them out so easily. As if God CAN'T want something so simple, He is a BIG God and so He MUST want something BIG. This is a lie. We run around in circles trying to figure out the will of God and yet we can't seem to find it because we are looking in the WRONG direction. We hear God, We MOVE, and then leave God in the dust because He made a turn and we didn't hear him because we didn't STOP and ask. God doesn't change, His plans for us don't change, YET we seem to think that He is the one that changes when we head in the wrong direction. We blame Him for ditching us and not telling us when to move, when REALLY it is us who didn't stop and ask for a new direction.
Read more