My run this morning started off strong. I was feeling good, running strong against the wind, even did a few sprints. I just knew that I was going to improve my time. Then, all of a sudden, a little over half way through, I just had this strong urge to stop running and just walk. At first, I thought it was just my body wanting to quit so I pressed on - praying for the Lord's strength to continue. But the urge got stronger so disappointed in myself, I stopped running and started walking.
Then I got the urge to switch my Pandora station from Lecrae radio to Praise and Worship radio - so I did. That's when I realized that it was the Spirit of God slowing me down because He wanted to minister to my spirit. His presence just flowed over me. I almost fell to my knees on the side of the road and wept. I just continued my slow stroll home enjoying His peace.
How many times in our busyness and rush have we ignored the Spirit's leading to slow down and spend time with Him? Do we allow the "loudness" of this world to drown out that still small voice and miss precious moments with our Father?
My prayer is that His voice will become louder in my life and the voices of this world will become quieter.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Sunday, May 23, 2010
On The Move
This is quite an uncomfortable place to be in the natural. The Lord is moving us again (the 6th time in the past 8 yrs.). The house we're in now, we've actually been in the longest - 2 1/2 years. Long enough to get to know a lot of people, know all the best places and accumulate a lot of junk.
We've known for a while that the Lord would be moving us soon but we weren't expecting everything to go from just kind of sailing along to pretty much having the boat capsize on us. All within a few days' time I was unemployed, we put the notice in with our Landlord that we were moving, Chris is being transferred with his job and suddenly our days are spent purging, packing and selling off whatever we can. This all happened in less than a month.
So now we're down to the last week before we move out. That's not the problem. The problem (if it can even be called that) is that we don't really know where we're going. I say it really can't be called a problem because we know that the Lord is moving us. The glory cloud is on the move and we just need to follow it in faith.
I said in the beginning of the blog that in the natural this is an uncomfortable place to be. We have a peace in our spirits about the timing of the move. We absolutely know that this is the Lord's will in our lives right now. However, we don't have a peace yet as to where the Lord is moving us. There are actually a couple of different options that we know of right now, but we just haven't gotten a confirmation about any of them yet.
Talk about taking a step - a leap of faith. We know and believe that our God is faithful and He has not called us to this place to let us die. We know that as we walk in the spirit and obey His leading, He will direct our path. As we keep our eyes on Him and not on the circumstance, we will soon see everything unfold before our eyes.
It's such a scary yet exciting time. Lord willing, I will blog along the way and testify of the wondrous things the Lord is doing in our lives.
We've known for a while that the Lord would be moving us soon but we weren't expecting everything to go from just kind of sailing along to pretty much having the boat capsize on us. All within a few days' time I was unemployed, we put the notice in with our Landlord that we were moving, Chris is being transferred with his job and suddenly our days are spent purging, packing and selling off whatever we can. This all happened in less than a month.
So now we're down to the last week before we move out. That's not the problem. The problem (if it can even be called that) is that we don't really know where we're going. I say it really can't be called a problem because we know that the Lord is moving us. The glory cloud is on the move and we just need to follow it in faith.
I said in the beginning of the blog that in the natural this is an uncomfortable place to be. We have a peace in our spirits about the timing of the move. We absolutely know that this is the Lord's will in our lives right now. However, we don't have a peace yet as to where the Lord is moving us. There are actually a couple of different options that we know of right now, but we just haven't gotten a confirmation about any of them yet.
Talk about taking a step - a leap of faith. We know and believe that our God is faithful and He has not called us to this place to let us die. We know that as we walk in the spirit and obey His leading, He will direct our path. As we keep our eyes on Him and not on the circumstance, we will soon see everything unfold before our eyes.
It's such a scary yet exciting time. Lord willing, I will blog along the way and testify of the wondrous things the Lord is doing in our lives.
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