Believing God for the impossible begins with seeing the invisible – understanding what He wants to accomplish through YOU.
The Big Question:
So who are you?
What makes you tick?
What are your strengths and your weaknesses?
What advantages are there to understanding your personality type?
And how does knowing those things equip you to live better and serve better?
Who you are is made up of lots of factors… Personality. Your past. Your experiences. Your future to a degree.
There are things that you will do that are genetic or that we learn from our parents. Stubbornness is a McKay genetic trait we say in our family. My kids also sleep really well – til 8 or 9am if I didn’t wake them… like their cousins on my mums side of the family. I have my fathers toes. My kids eat dried weetbix, like I did. Who is the inventor and creator of DNA? God. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Even my toes.
Your past and the things you have experienced are used to shape who you are. Both good and bad are used by God to shape character and give you life experiences that you can use.
i believe God uses the good, the bad and the ugly to shape us and to give us the platform to connect with others. His promise is that ALL THINGS will work out for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. Every experience, good, bad and ugly, shapes us. But i believe that despite the pain we can choose to let those things shape us for good. We choose mercy over bitterness. We choose peace over pain. We choose love over hate. For a great analogy on this, read about Jasmine the dog…
Likewise there are unique passions and giftings and good things that happen in our lives to shape who we are. Those passions and dreams fuel vision. When i was a child i loved writing stories. i used to go up to our rumpus room and type out novels on my mums old typewriter. Yes, typewriter. Today i feel like live that dream of writing through our church magazine and this blog, and that writing is a way of communicating the good news of who God is and His Kingdom.
“Praise be to God who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.” 2 Corinthians 4:1
For myself I look back at the many times we moved due to my dad’s job and how that affected me and made me who I am today. I make friends fast – because as I kid I had to. I was also slightly unremoved and unaffected by peer pressure and peoples opinions of me, because in a year or so we’d move. That experience I had growing up became part of the tapestry of my life.
I want to add a disclaimer to that: sometimes in life really bad things happen – that you have no control over. We make mistakes also and we make wrong decisions. Our attitude to that is what allows that event or those events to have power in our lives. God is a forgiving God and He turns ALL things around for good according to His purpose. His purpose is to use us to show that He is mighty and forgiving and full of compassion. But if you hold onto your guilt or allow something to shatter you without finding peace and hope and strength and healing with Jesus then you are not allowing God to be God and you are adding things to your tapestry that perhaps shouldn’t be there… hear my heart here… God is mightier than any circumstance. He is the healer of every hurt. We are overcomers. Don’t hold onto sin and hurt. Forgive and grow. Be forgiven and grow.
“Whatever you’re facing in life, or whatever is coming in your future, God has already given you the faith for it. It may not look like it, and you may not feel like you have what it takes to overcome, but faith in God isn’t based on our circumstances or how we feel.
The enemy would like for you to believe that you don’t have a chance in life, that you’re too weak, too poor, too whatever. But God has a different view of you. God sees you through the eyes of love. He sees not what you can be, but what He has invested in you, not what you or others may see.
Seeing yourself the way God sees you leads to a life of overwhelming victory.
It takes faith. You can’t just hear that God loves you and sees you as His child, you have to believe it. It takes faith to move forward and overcome the challenges of life. And faith does you no good if you don’t know how to release it. You have to release your faith in order for it to work.” Joyce Meyer
today, have faith. have faith that God has called you and is at work in you and through you, that He has a plan and a purpose for your life and that He knows you inside out and upside down, and loves you. Really loves you.
see I AM CALLED #5 HERE, see I AM CALLED #4 HERE, see I AM CALLED #3 HERE, see I AM CALLED #2 HERE, see I AM CALLED #1 HERE
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