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Adventures with God.

Honestly, I felt like I had to document this.  Lately God has been speaking to me.  He has been speaking about wanting to do great things through me.  But what He has told is that He cannot do that if I don't learn to stop trying to figure out how I'm going to get things done.  I am a person who likes to know "how" I'm going to do something "before" I do it.  I am a natural strategist.  God wants to do things through me that are bigger than me and bigger than my ability to strategize.  It's not that God doesn't want us to use our abilities to plan and strategize.  He most certainly does.  He just doesn't want those abilities to get in the way of trusting Him and taking big steps of faith. He wants us to get excited when He brings things in our path that we cannot do in our own strength.  He wants us to be happy when He brings something in our path where we cannot even conceive of how it's going to get done.  

Again, I say "make your plans".  But realize that "your plans" are not all you have.  Realize that "your plans" are not going to be enough. Plans have to be made from a posture of faith.  Let God bring you something big, take a leap of faith and see what God will do.  I don't know what He will do.  But I think it would be fun to find out. 

God has let me know that He wants to take me on adventures but in order for Him to do that, I have to get comfortable with not having things figured out in advance.  I have to be able to say "yes"  not having a clue as to how it's all going to play out.  

Even in the midst of God telling me all this, He continues to confirm my gifts and strengths.  He tells me of my gifts and my strengths and the wonderful way He has made me.  He has made me to succeed in all that He puts my hand to.  Check this out, God will show you great things about yourself that you had no idea you could do.  Give Him a chance to do that.  Pray for it even.

The way I am applying what God is showing me is by not worrying about tomorrow and how I'm going to get things done.  At the same time I put forth my best effort in the present.  I do my best today and don't worry about tomorrow.  Worrying about tomorrow will keep you from putting forth you best effort in today.  Get on an adventure with God.

Here are some scriptures to back this up:

Matthew 6:25-24-““Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

James 4:13-143 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow [h]we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” ...

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