It has become apparent to me over the past week that God REALLY wants me to trust Him more in all I do. My husband and I are in the preparation process for a missions trip to Kenya in June. We have quite a bit of money still to raise, and I have often wondered where in the world this money is going to come from. God keeps on reminding me to trust Him and only Him. I have been reminded that the measure of faith I have, can have a bearing on how God answers my prayers....meaning the more I am surrendered to Him and the more of myself I am willing to give Him, the more He will give me.
I have also been reminded of the fact that if I am willing to step forward and say, "Here am I, send me!", that God will honor my willingness to be used by Him. In, Isaiah 6:8 the writer sees the Lord and God is asking him who would go and minister to the people and Isaiah says he will go. "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us? Then said I, Here am I; send me." (Amplified version) When your heart is willing and true God will use you. You do not have to be perfect, or sin free! He just wants you to take the opportunities He places in front of you to be used by Him. It is very simple, and yet somehow we complicate it. (I could go on, but this is a subject for another post, on another day.)
"Look at the proud; his soul is not straight or right within him, but the just and the righteous man shall live by his faith and in his faithfulness." Habakkuk 2:4 (Amplified version)