Lesson 101-Trusting without Borders...

Ok. So I am doing this 40 days of Promise challenge and thinking-HA....been checking off the scriptures on the list and thinking...not bad-this is doable! I'm wearing my bracelet and bee-bopping around the house in time to the sunshine thinking...hey!...this trust thing isn't as hard as I thought it would be. (Did you hear the clinking of the buttons popping off my shirt?! and...YEAH. God. took. care. of. that. this. week....again.)

Life. happens. and. rugs. get. pulled.out. and. bodies. fall. down... and that bracelet got some serious mileage going back and forth between each wrist as I desperately clung to scripture after scripture while God spoke assurance and grace into my situation.

I sat there 

with my spiral bound note cards

chock full of scriptures on them

...sobbing. 

w.e.e.p.i.n.g. 

Desperately wishing I could make decisions for others that could change them...desperately needing to trust God is in control. Been there? 

trust. without. borders.

trust. without. borders.

trust. without .borders.

So I heard God singing over me

...Honey...you need to 

pray. without. borders....

and so as I trust my prayers are heard...

I learn to trust The One that Answers.

So-lesson 101 in trusting without borders...

LEARNING HOW TO PRAY WITHOUT BORDERS...

As long as my trust in God is contained and controllable in my own little world- my faith is empty and powerless.

My praying 

looked more like a

 Christmas list to Santa 

than a petition to

the Creator of the Universe 

who holds

 ALL things in His hands.

wishing.

wanting.

waiting.

Instead of 

praying.

resting.

trusting.

Intercession is hard work and it isn't childrens play. Praying is the most powerful tool we have at our disposal. 

Anguishing over loved ones

over results of poor choices

over diagnosis

over broken lives & broken hearts

over dying marriages

over dying children

over distorted views

over sin in the house of God.

Praying.

Worship.

When I pray in faith-trusting that He is able to do far above what I can even imagine...I can rest.

FOR HE IS...

Lion of Judah who defends me!
The Prince of Peace who comforts the downcast!
The Great Physician who heals my wounds!
The Mighty Warrior who goes before me into battle!
The Wonderful in whom I can delight!
The Counselor who guides me!
The Creator who constantly renews me!
The Husbandman that Redeems me!
The Lamb who was slain for me!
The Son of God who is my brother and friend!
The Faithful and True!
The God that cannot lie!
The Lover of my soul!


And if He is who I am calling on...how can I not trust Him? Praise God, that He has done all these things for me. Friend, I pray that you hear God singing over you today--because He has done these things for you.

So-today-I choose to keep the bracelet on my wrist--without moving it to the other wrist...because today--I choose to pray to the one 

WHO WAS

WHO IS

AND IS TO COME 

Trusting Without Borders

I've been thinking about what God is wanting from for me in 2015. 

then I read this blog post this morning...

TRUST WITHOUT BORDERS...

and I realized that (once again) ...it isn't about me... OH-imagine that?!

"It isn't that we have a TRUTH problem; it's that we have a TRUST problem. We don't really TRUST what we know to be TRUE." ~Arabah Joy

SO WHAT'S THE PROBLEM, HERE?! 

anxiety that chokes...

fear that smothers...

pasts that don't let go...

and futures that look bleak.

depression that hangs on...

failure that keeps us down...

uncertainty that weights us down...

unhealthy life choices.

grief that overwhelms.

pain that stabs.

guilt that covers.

shame that hides us...

patterns of sin

truth.trust.

i can fill my head with all the truth...
i can stuff scriptures in my brain all day...
read all self-help articles...
chat with others about issues...
but it really boils down to one thing.

DO. I. TRUST. GOD. AT. HIS. WORD.

Do I really know it to be true in my life?

That God DOES really have things under control...

That my future is secure...

That He loves me enough that He won't let me go...

That my eternal security doesn't depend on my performance--but on Christ alone.

DO. I. TRUST. IT.

DOES. MY. LIFE. REFLECT. IT.

So-I dug out a bracelet that my kids made for me a LONG time ago...

and I'm taking the 40 day challenge. 

For the next 40 days I am going to learn how to TRUST WITHOUT BORDERS... And I am trusting that I will loose myself and find that Jesus will always be enough.

Feel free to click 

Arabah Joy's 40 promises 

read the post

print off the scripture list

and see what God is doing!