Step into your Calling and LOOK OUT!!!

Today was our last team meeting before next monday and heading down to the Dream Center to serve for a week. I relized that while im excited to go; as ive had this dream for 15 years, I couldnt express nothing today, because i have a stupid cold, and was really worn out.
When i was sleeping last night i woke up to a cartoon from the 70s on TBN, about paul and silas when they stepped into thier callings, they met up with opposistion on all fronts. It hit me today as i was getting ready to go to the meeting that I Must be doing something right if the devil is trying so hard, to get me worn down, and discouraged, and afraid that this cold will not leave in time. Now you can say 'you need to come against it and pray against it.' Well that is true, and i have, and i have been pleeding all the verses as i can thinking of over me. I am healed by the stripes of Jesus, I am victorious in Christ, ect ect...... It is what it is, sometimes you just get sick. Sometimes it hits when the enemy doesnt want you to press on. There used to be a time when i would give up, and say im done, I cant go on. But i have relized that I need to stand against the firery darts of the enemy and pick up the sshield of Faith and Say I dont care whats going on, I dont care if I am sick anylonger, You are not going to win this war IM Going to do what God has called me to do. Be warned now---- When you are about to step into your calling, or even do what God calls you to do, wether it be a missions trip, or simply saying a verse in church, to making amends with a long lost friend; The enemy is going to come in like a flood, But God will Put your feet on dry land, and help you cross over to the other side. so to repeat and steal a slogan from yestueryear, JUST DO IT!!! and LOOK OUT, because when you stepp out, you will meet up with your enemy. But God is bigger just keep that in mind.

When you step out into your Calling WATCH OUT

I am going with a group from my church to Los Angeles in less then 11 days. I have felt unprepared getting ready. Other things just keep coming up, distractions left and right, or this emergancy and that emergancy. The Team as a whole has been hit hard with different things as well. Up till Sunday most of us were way behind on our funds. But when God gives a dream, and when God calls you to do something, He is going to be faithful and just to complete that in all ways. However be warned now, When you start to head in the direction of your calling, you will be hit from all sides, at once it seems. The enemy will attack, he doesnt want you to walk in that calling; he doesnt want you to set the captives free. But be faithful to God and stand on His Word. and everything will fall into place. I have learned that this week. I am fighting a cold, last week i had the flu, the monies were not there on Sunday, on and on and on. But today i went to the church and found I only have a small amount to raise, And that God will complete what he started when he gave me the Dream to go to the Dream Center 10 years ago. Im reminded of the song right now called "He who began a good work in you" Its a simple but yet powerful song, I cant remember all the words at the moment, but the chorus is "He who began a good work in you, will be faithful to complete it, will faithful to complete it He who started the work will be faithful to complete in you."

God is Funny and Sometimes Sets Us Up!!

God is funny and sometimes He sets us up. He knows our end from our beginning, but its funny how sometimes things play out. This last weekend proved that one. I normally do not listen to Televangelists, (aka tv preachers) except a couple. But it seemed no matter who they were even big named ones, and ones I did not know at all they all had the same exact message: YOU ARE NOT A SLAVE NO LONGER TO YOUR PAST, OR THE WORDS OF FAILURE SPOKEN OVER YOU IN YOUR PAST. THE SHACKLES ARE LOOSED AND THEY ARE HOLDING YOU NO MORE. ..... So then i wake up this morning and the different preachers are saying the same thing........... i go to church, and Pastor has a word of knowledge that someone needed to hear the same thing. and know that God is going to use everything in the past for his good. and that that person needed to know no matter what you are beautiful and going to be used by God. Then he went on to preach about David and Goliath how Goliath tormented Isreal for so long they became slaves to the words that he spoke over them, and how he tried to do the same with david, But David knew who he was in Christ. Pastor related the movie clip from The Karate Kid, where Danielson is at Mr Miagi's house painting the house, waxing the car, and sanding the floor. He feels he is just a slave, he certainly learning any karate. OR so he thought. after the frustration of not learning he gets after Mr Miagi, and Mr Miagi in turn gets frustrated at Danielson, and puts him through what he had been learning. Danielson was then free and not a slave no longer, because he learned what he thought was his shakels were now his power and weapons, when needed to be used. For us The past can bind us, it has me at times, especially lately, ive felt there was no way i can get over certain past sins ive committed, and im worthless and not going to be used of God. But then with these reminders this weekend, i have learned that God is there, and can use anything to free us. and use my sin, my shortcomings, my failures, my pain for His Glory.