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Its been awhile since I posted on this blog....God has been laying something heavy and strong on my heart for the last few weeks...I want to share it with you.....
Faith....what is it?????
God has shown me what true faith is. We can say all day long that we have faith that our car will start, that our water will come on when we turn on the faucet, that we will surely have bills come in the mail....but...is that faith? Or is it just life, because we know those things happen every day.
I might have eluded to this in a previous post...but, its part of what is on my heart..so bare with me... God has had to break me, to show me what I really need. Its not a new car, its not a brand new fancy house, its not the newest and most expensive clothes...its HIM.
I know this is for someone out there, I feel it in my heart...so please, if this is something God is dealing with you about, this could be for you.
We go thru life, saying, we "need" this job...we "need" this much money to live, we "need" this person or that person in our lives...but, do we really? WE think we do, but sometimes God shows us just what we really need. I was one of those people...He showed me a few years ago, and He has shown me most recently!
I "needed" the money that was being brought into the salon, in order for it to stay open. There was NO way I could run it if any of the girls left me. I endured lots of heartache and frustration, because this is what I believed! God showed me that HE was ALL I needed...I didn't need money from anyone else, I just needed to rely on Him...from that point on, I had faith that HE was going to take care of things...actually, He already had, I just had to believe it....for 3 years, He did just that, I relied totally on Him....every bill was paid, every need was taken care of, and in the mean time, I was able to share Jesus with many other ladies that came thru the salon. That was my mission field....I can see now why I was there, and why He didn't want me to close the salon at that time..
I have grown in faith over those years since then....recently, I slacked off just a bit....I had been doing some work, (almost exclusively) for someone else, it was good, but then became sparadic, and there was some frustration involved, and not alot of money, but what I did have helped alot. I kept saying, once again, I need that money, I have to endure everything to keep it going...then, right after I verbalized that, HE was right there again, showing me that I need NO ONE or NOTHING but Him...just rely on Him...for ALL things..... I released that feeling of need of others, and He has supplied all of them since then. He wants to do it, but until we let Him, He is just waiting on us!
We NEED to be serving the Lord, we NEED to be telling others of Him and giving them the opportunity to know Him too. Its our responsibility...its what He expects of us.
If you are in a situation similar...let go. Just let go of what or who you THINK you need....let God be ALL that you need!
If we say we have faith, but we continue to "need" other people or things to make it, then we have no faith. We do not need that person in our life just because they have what we think we need to survive...its not true. Can you imagine just what God will do if we let go of that, and truly trust Him for everything, just let let that go!!!!! We are missing so many blessings because we fail to believe totally.
God laid this on my heart....please be in prayer and realize that faith means believing...even tho we haven't seen.....God bless us all......
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