Hey everybody! I hope you have all been enjoying your, way too hot, summer! I was thinking about what I wanted my next post to be about and I kept coming back to the same word, YES! How many times have you had a feeling God was telling you to do something that was WAY outside your normal activities? Id be willing to bet we have all had those moments....I'd also be willing to bet most of us have had those moments and said "I really don't want to do that right now" or "I can't do something like that". Funny thing is, God didn't ask you to go talk to that person in the store that you don't know, but only if that's okay with you. God doesn't ask you to do things that make you uncomfortable. I know, I know, you are very confused right now......you see, He doesn't ask you to be uncomfortable, He expects you to be uncomfortable. It's in those times of being uncomfortable when the biggest breakthroughs happen. Do you think it was a comfortable confessing your love for Jesus knowing that in those days you could be killed for doing so? I'd say that is a no, but they did! I saw a really cool article that the writer was thinking about comfort and the lyrics of an Andy Mineo song came to her mind....."So if you wanna live a comfortable life, make sure you never love nobody, be selfish, and never sacrifice" Wow! Think about that for a second. Are we getting to comfortable in our every day lives that we can't respond with a solid YES when God puts something on your heart? If the Christians of the world were more willing to give God their yes just think about how many more people would hear the Gospel. I hear people all the time say they want to hear God more.....believe me you hear God every day, the real question is do you listen?? I've made that comment on more than one occasion and it is usually met with the response, "well, how do I know it's really God". That leads me to my personal story for this post. Steph had been baptized, the boys had both been baptized, and I had been baptized years before. I watched the walk the three of them went on that lead them to baptism and to be honest I was a little sad. I knew in my heart that a lot of what they did to get to that point I had not done. I was baptized for the right reasons but I hadn't truly handed my whole life over to Him. I started to feel this heaviness on my heart saying that I needed to rededicate my life to Him through baptism. I had already started making the necessary changes in my life but that was a piece that I had not thought about before. I wrote it off as a jealousy thing from my own head. I thought I just wanted to be baptized in the same place as my family. Then, after hearing it for the 100th time, I went to Pastor Terry and told him what I was feeling....mostly (in my head) so that he could tell me I didn't need to be baptized again and that I was crazy for thinking so. His response is something I will never forget and something that I apply to a lot of situations in my life. "The devil isn't gonna tell you to be baptized, it must be from God". When God tells you something you have to act on it. You know the devil isn't going to tell you to do something that would even remotely bring praise to God, so what are you waiting for?!? That person God is telling you to go sit and talk with at work or school, they could be dealing with some really dark stuff, your willingness to be God's hands and feet may just save their life. What about that family member that is sick? What if God was going to use you to speak healing over them, but you didn't feel comfortable doing that? I don't know about you but I'm sick of "comfortable Christians", let's stop talking about what we need to do and how to do it and just get out and do it! Let's all get to that place where we expect God to put us in those uncomfortable situations because we know that out of those moments amazing things are about to happen. I encourage you to join me in giving God your YES no matter what! Check out the song below about just that.....and feel free to message me with anything that I can be praying for you about. Love you all!
