FEAR WILL CRIPPLE - HOPE WILL SET YOU FREE

     This is a time I must be perfectly honest.  The last week I haven't been able to write one word.  This morning I woke up with the thought, "Fear will cripple me but hope will set me free."  This is a fact my friend.  If we are filled with fear we are usually frozen in our tracks; unable to move forward. 

     Looking back at some of my recent writing and photo's that I posted and realized that the Lord has been preparing me for this adventure in my life without me being aware of the preparation.  I thought I was writing things for my readers to be encouraged and drink from.  Even the book I recently published was for myself.  I had already lived much of it but there was somethings that I hadn't lived.  In order for me to truly tell you how to move forward when it feels impossible, I needed to experience the depth of it, for myself.

    Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:11)
    
     These two verses are the verses on my heart today.  Just as I learned to ride a bike when I was young and so afraid of getting hurt, I will learn to ride this wave of events.  My choice is not to be crippled but to be set free, so therefore I must choose hope. 

     A person is unable to have faith if they don't have hope.  Look at Hebrews 11: 1 and you will see that the two are weaved together and walking hand in hand. The three of us shall walk closely together.  Faith in one hand and hope in the other. 

     With this being said, I must let my readers know that Steve has resigned his position in the church and we are relocating.  We covet your prayers and ask each of you to pray the Lord shows us what is next.  The next few weeks will be filled with packing, moving, and all the events of a new life, in a new place.  If I don't write on my blog often, it's not because I have forgotten to or don't want to, it's because of our busy schedule. 

     The greatest ministry we had was at Northside Baptist Church and I will be praying that they keep up the faith, keep on suppling The Living Water to the children and youth of Kermit.  I will miss this ministry with all my heart and am positive I will have to come back and help with VBS if I am not working a regualar job.  God isn't through here, he has only just begun.  He placed us here and used us to start something that he wants to finish.