Trust

I am in Texas searching for a job that will bring my family to Texas - where we feel God has directed us to go. I have experienced many closed doors. (This is not a pitty party in the least.) The latest came from a company that had already presented an offer and then retracted and chose to go another direction. I'm getting better at the emotions of it. Today I kept hearing the words "Trust!!" "Trust!!" "Trust!!" when I felt the twinges of emotion creep up - Something the devil knows how to do is pile it on - I heard the word "Trust!!"

When it is God's doing it does not mean that it will be easy. Somewhere along the lines I heard this spoken in our churches. "Where God gives vision - He also provides the resources". You know what? I believe that this is partly true - God absolutely does provide but not always in the "easy" or "express" way that we Americans like to have it. Walking by faith does not mean "ordering it up and having it delivered to us. Walking by faith is not saying all the correct things in a vision statement and then seeing it all magicly appear. Walking by faith is not seeing it all with your natural eyes. More often - when we are walking in faith - we will not understand because the Bible tells us that faith is believing that which we do not see.

Walking in faith is not easy but it is what God requires of the church - the Body of Christ - US. it is not easy - God is building something within that only He can do - maybe He is building tenacity within me - a stick to it attitude. The words God will Make a way from the old Don Moen chorus continually come to my mind these days.

God will make a way
Where there seems to be no way
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me

He will be my guide
Hold me closely to His side
With love and strength for each new day
He will make a way, He will make a way

By a roadway in the wilderness, He'll lead me
And rivers in the desert will I see
Heaven and Earth will fade but His Word will still remain
And He will do something new today

Are you in a wilderness? Have you exhausted all of your human efforts to make it happen? Are you in a place where you do not understand your circumstances? If you are a child of God - get this inside you deep - HIS EYES ARE ON YOU and HE HAS A PLAN FOR YOU! This is the place of faith. This is where Anna and I and my kids are. This is where many of you are. This is the place of the miraculous - where God recieves the Glory - for "Great things HE has done" not of human hands.
He may even do it TODAY!

Peace
Mike
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