Fire Hose Faith

Elijah was a man of great faith and that would not be something someone would say about me. Right now we as a family we are praying about taking some major steps/leaps of faith.

This week I have thought about Elijah and the alter. He poured water on an alter and then prayed for God's fire to fall on it. That story has been so challenging to me lately. I feel like we have the call to wait for God to set our "alter" on fire and someone has taken a fire hose and is dowsing it with tons of water. As it continues to be flooded I stand with by my backup matches. (matches because I don't want to look like a fool)

As I struggle to see God in these circumstances, I wonder how Elijah felt as he filled the buckets with water. I can imagine that Elijah may not have been sure that pouring all this water and waiting for fire from heaven was such a good idea but kept moving forward in faith.

I am sure that this was not the first time he put his "faith" in God. God so often starts by showing us His power through small things (we just need to keep our eyes and hearts open) then as things He asks us to seem to get bigger He reminds us of the past victories.

Now I am not saying I ready to put away my matches and to be honest I don't think God is offended by me holding them either. He is big enough to handle my lack of faith, I just need to continue to be following the steps He wants me to take. And yes I am continuing to pray that someone turns of the fire hose, enough is enough already, right?

Today I am waiting for God to send down fire on my very wet alter.

***did I mention I hate waiting LOL Remembering God is in control!!

New Bible reading thoughts

I know I need to work on my titles but hopefully the content is better :)

This week I made a strange discovery I like reading books. But when it comes to the NIV Bible I am looking ahead and wondering when I can be done, why the numbers! The Living Bible reads like a book and doesn't have the numbers to stop my flow. I have always been a little skeptical of the Living Bible, yet because of the ease of reading I am going to give it a try.

I think the most amazing part of this whole thing is I was reading last week and in the first paragraph I found something that really spoke to me ("God takes care of the details") and I wanted to keep reading. So crazy my deal was read till you find something you can mediate on all week and boom it right there. Normally I would have stopped and thanked God for the quickness by His grace, finding inspiration that fast, yeah!

I am excited about what God has in this "new" book for me, that phrase has been life changing! And this week I missed my set time to read and I am excited about getting into it on another day instead. No guilt, No worry about following a formula, and no going back!

God takes care of the details - letting that phrase penetrate into every part of your life (work, family, finances, house cleaning, everything!!)