Challenged.

"May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart ♥ May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and the exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom, and peace. May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, and starvation, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done."

At church today the Holy Spirit hit me.

I have come to realize when I hear God best, it's when He hits me in the face with His truth and reveals His heart and His passions for my life. It's then time to take a step back and review my life, get back onto that path that He's set out before me and align myself once again with His vision and THEN move forward again.

I sometimes am challenged when I pray SO long and hard for something to happen, and it just doesn't. I start to question God, I go back and look over those truths that I knew to be true and ask why?

I was reminded today to adjust my focus. To put the focus not onto the things that God isn't doing, but to my own actions. Have I made the proactive step of living a Christ-like life? Have I taken a step outside my comfort zone to encourage these dreams? I was humbled when I realized I was just sitting back and waiting for God to do it all. I recognized that I was blind to see that it was me who was hindering these prayers.

Instead of being on the front lines of battle, I was hanging back and waiting for God to do all the work. I lost sight of the meaning of FRIENDSHIP: A TWO way relationship. I saw that a mighty, powerful, omnipotent God wanted me to fight alongside Him. I saw a God that could do it Himself but cared enough to not want me to sit back, He knew I'm ready, He knew I'd find the strength and knew that I believed I'm covered with His grace.

I was encouraged today to follow my dreams. To chase after what I know God has called me to do. Not to sit back and watch the world go on around me, but to be PART of the world as I lead the way. To make the world sit back and watch as I work for the Glory of His kingdom, as I battle on the front lines and as together as the body of Christ we spread our light throughout the nations.