Sharing the Journey

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I’m sitting here with my computer wondering if I should be writing up a blog post or just a quick message to my friend. But I believe that she and I are not the only ones that need this word of encouragement. Many of us are experiencing the same thing but secretly believe we’re the only one. So, while we sit and fight private battles, the enemy is in a corner watching and laughing as we beat ourselves up, and God is bidding, “Give it to me.” Anyone who has been a Christian for more than a day or so has most likely heard Proverbs 3:5-6, which reads in the New King James Version (NKJV), “ 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.”   The New International Version (NIV) has the word “submit” in verse six where our previous version says acknowledge. I think the wording, of both versions, have left some of us confused. Let me explain why. When someone tells me to acknowledge anoth

I want to share today with the one who, like me, can see the end and has faith to get there, yet are seeing little to no movement towards the end they see. I KNOW God has a plan for me. It is a good and awesome plan. I’d even say it’s a mind-blowing plan. I KNOW this. There is no doubt in my mind that He is going to do some great things for and through me. I KNOW this because I know the God I serve. He is faithful even when I am not. (2 Timothy 2:13) “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19 NKJV) He has spoken great things concerning me personally, and I believe. My problem has been (but is no more) one similar to Abram and Sarai prior to the name change of Genesis 17. They believed God, but decided He needed some help and created Ishmael. I’ve been trying to help God and make things happen in my own strength when He has neither asked for nor ne