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Chances Are Good

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Hebrews 12:1

God’s Discipline Proves His Love

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

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So we have had the pity party, put in our efforts to run the race, waited on God, proved ourselves worthy and we still feel like God is not using us to our full potential.  Yup, started to book my reservations yesterday for another pity party, table of one and was quick to hang up the phone when someone I love dearly showed me the other side of things.  I just thought yesterday, “what is the sense of going up for prayer at revival? Nothing seems to be changing.”  I began down that lonely road for a moment of what I had planned for my life and soon realized it was not a place I even wanted to visit.

What was going on?  God was not moving fast enough for me?  I want my books to be published.  I want to be speaking in churches, sharing my testimony and I feel like I am just stuck in mud so to speak and I am not leading anyone in the things of God.  I just felt like I was not doing anything for God and I saw no reason for receiving a touch from Him last night….how deceived can one become?  Satan had just sucked me into his game for a minute and my emotions just played right along.

Chances are good if I stay surrendered, God will do all that He has promised to do in my life.  I should continue to run the race set before me and my destiny will be right around the  corner.  I need to not let Satan and his brood play with my emotions.  I know who I am in Christ and I am a daughter of the King.  For God it is all the right timing.  I could use up three blogs alone describing all the things God has done for me in the last year.  God is moving in my life and I could say at a rather even pace.  Perhaps He is wanting me to enjoy where I am for the moment before He opens the floodgates of the next big thing in my life.

Chance are good if I remain faithful and true to the things of God, He will come through with His promises.  Chance are good if I keep running the race, God will give me victory.  Chances are good if I continue to press in and seek God, I will find Him. Chance are good this waiting period will not be in vain but prove to edify my life.

Just Push

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Psalm 118:13
I was pushed back and about to fall, but the LORD helped me.

Ezekiel 1:28
Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

Today as I was filling out an application to join a website concerning writing, I really began to wonder why I have not more actively pursued this passion which lies in my heart to write.  I have loved the art of rearranging words since I was in kindergarten.  I knew math was not my strong point after being the only kid in the class who did not receive a big Hershey bar for being able to say all of my numbers correctly from 1 to 100.  I despised my teacher for years because of my own failures and finally after repenting and asking God to forgive me I can remember some of the good times from those early days.

In high school I really found my love for writing as I wrote poem after poem and really enjoyed my writing classes.  I had a teacher who believed in my writing and gave me much needed encouragement as I struggled with who I wanted to become.  Well instead of focusing on my college career and getting any kind of degree in writing, I quit after the first semester because one of the teachers seemed to hate the way I wrote.  Why on earth did I give up so easily?  How often in our lives do we not push for the things we want but instead walk away from our destiny only to discover ourselves not where we want to be 20 years later?  So here I am, working in a restaurant for the past 25 years and going nowhere in my passion for writing because I let a stumbling block 20 years ago stop my voyage.  Now don’t misread me, I love my job and I have had so many opportunities to bless others here that I have no regrets, I just wish I would have been doing something with my writing at the same time.

I have decided today there is no better time than right now to change this aspect of my life.  As I go through the process of adding all the little extras into my book like table of contents and dedications, I want this to be a beginning of something new for me.  I will soar as though on eagles wings just like God says I will in the Bible.  He keeps His promises to us and all we have to do is believe.  It really is that simple.  He set before us this great race and it is up to us to decide whether we will run it or not.  Taking this race to the next level is my goal.  Yes it is one filled with hurddles, but once you have mastered the art of jumping with God, nothing is impossible.

Do you have a dream?  Do you know what your hearts’ passion is?  Are you just accepting where you are in life even though there is the fire burning within you to accomplish things much greater than this?  Is it time for you to run?  To push forward?  To gain control of your destiny?  I myself am ready to run this race full force.  I got what it takes and this fire, well it just will not decrease!  I want to be a lighthouse for someone else.  I want God to use my writing to change the world and to reach those who are in need.  I want to display my life for the world to see so that there is evidence of a better life, one full of blessings and wishes granted.  It is never too late to start running your race.  Ready. Set. Go!

Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,

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