Stepping out on Faith

Do you know how hard it is to step out on faith when it involves money?  I can tell you that it is hard!  I kept hearing God tell me to write, write and write some more but I haven't listened very well.  You know there are bills to pay, clothes and food to be bought.  I kept telling Him that I need the money coming in from my job.  He kept telling me that I will take care of you!  I didn't listen very well and than several things happened that lead me to the decision that I would leave my job(though will do phone calls from home).  I guess I am so hard headed that sometimes I have to be hit over the head to step out on Faith.

I do know that God will provide and guide me as I write.  Please pray that I will leave the worry behind and that I will crank those books out every week or two.  I finally have the house fairly organized though I do have a junk room.  I think I will go through it a little at a time until it is gone.  That seems to be what I do with the junk in my soul.  I get rid of it a little bit at a time.  If my soul junk had been gone it might not have been so hard to step out on faith.

Matthew 17:20New Living Translation (NLT)

20 “You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.[a]”

 Matthew 6:30New Living Translation (NLT)

30 And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?

Another Get Rid of Your Junk Post

I was in church yesterday morning and I noticed something about my Bible.  I was turning to the scripture that our pastor was going to read from and I was having a hard time getting there because of all the junk crammed into my Bible.  I had old bulletins, some dating years back, old pictures of my children, drawings, several book marks, old notes, two pencils and a pen.  I have gotten so used to the junk in my Bible that I didn't even notice that it was there.  Until yesterday when it kept trying to spill out.

I know that the the pastor preached a wonderful sermon from James 4 but I don't remember what it was.  I was too busy looking at the junk in my Bible.  A thought came to me when I realized that I wasn't even listening.  My thought was that my Bible was like my life.  I have been working on removing the junk from my life but  many times I don't because I am so used to the junk. The junk seems normal.  Sometimes there is so much junk in my heart that I don't  hear God talking to me just like I wasn't listening to God's word yesterday because I was occupied with the junk in my Bible.

I need to clean out my Bible, just as I need to keep the junk out of my heart.  I want this new year to be the best junk free year ever! I need to be strong and leave the junk behind.  I need to leave it at the throne of my King!  What about you?  Is there junk in your life?

Happy New Year's to You!  Hoping that 2013 will be junk free!!

1 Corinthians 16:13-14

New International Version (NIV)

¹³ Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. ¹⁴ Do everything in love.