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Good Afternoon Church Family, God is able and faithful! We serve a mighty God who is so faithful to His Word and truly leads and guides us in every decision if we are willing to let Him lead and guide! I feel like there have been things all week long that keep turning for my good as I let Him lead! He has the answers for our hardest mountains and even the smallest decisions in our day AND everything in between! Steve, myself and Layne were able to put up our new remote controlled screen this morning!! It is the coolest thing!! But putting it up had a few challenging moments. Decisions needed to be made and ideas of how to get them done and every time God provided an answer. He gave us whitty ideas of how to reach certain heights and ways to make the unit blend in better with the surroundings and how to keep all the cords hidden! Even down to needing wisdom on how to get the screen to stay up and be structurally sound... God provided the ideas and equipment to get it done! Layne and I had gone through all the different screws and accessories and knew what we had exactly. He and I were talking about having to come back because we needed one more plastic wall anchor, when Steve held up a baggie of extra screws and anchors and asked why we couldn't use those! God provided more than enough!!! It was amazing! God is so faithful to lead and guide us in everything if we will let Him.
Earlier in the week, Steve had accidently Gorilla glued his fingers together (yes, it really does cement them together if you didn't know that). Our first response was kids looking up on Google how to get it undone. So we tried the hot soapy water recommendation. I remembered that nail polish remover also is good for undoing the effects of glue so we tried that. The first two were working ok but when I started praying in the Spirit I literally heard my mom's voice in my head, "Lemon oil takes away any adherent from a surface." I ran and got my lemon essential oil and we poured it all over the areas with glue and finally he was able to pull them apart! We have our ideas of how things should be done but a "God idea" can help even more!
This past week I was also talking with a businessman who had been going through a rough spot in his business. He has an incredibly gifted mind for business but I have seen that mindset making it hard to trust God because his ability can get in the way. I had a chance to share with him what I saw and encouraged him to ask the Lord what to do in the situation he was in and then trust the Lord for the answers. When the answers came, I encouraged him to use the business gifts to take his business to the next level. Guess what!! He acted on what he felt the Lord was telling him to do and trusted the Lord for the answer. It not only came but he was able to use his wisdom and gifting in business to help not only his situation but also the situation for a friend with business issues! It was better than he could have imagined when he let God lead and guide him.
God tells us that He knows the plans He has for us... plans! There are plans for our lives and God has given us natural and supernatural abilities to get those plans done but He is the source of those plans. If you were building a house, you would need to talk to the person who has the plans, right? You can't just hear that there are plans or even look at the plans once or twice and be able to build based on that. No, throughout the building process you need to refer to the plans and the designer of the plans to get it right. King David understood this. He was an amazing warrior who knew he could lead his army to win battles. He had already won in the past but we see over and over again that he went to the Lord FIRST to find out what His plans were. He not only asked but then he used those plans. The result was he won the battles! The plan for the battles often had specific requirements or ways that were not the same as they were in the past. David could have probably still won the battles but when he did them God's way, he often won without casualties on his side and it was done swiftly. David understood the importance of letting God lead and guide him. He knew God was faithful and that He knew the best plan. God has plans for our lives and we could accomplish them on our own but why? Why would we do it on our own when the Designer of the plans wants to lead us through the process? I am so grateful for God's faithfulness not just to have plans for us but that He is willing to walk us through each step of the way to accomplish those plans with victory! So whether the plans you are working on in your life are a small project like putting up a new screen or a large project like a business proposition that could affect the lives of many people under you, God wants to be right there helping you through it to be victorious! The key, be willing to let him lead and guide you and trust Him in the process. God has big plans for us Church Family and we can see those plans come to pass the hard way or the light and easy way. I say we choose light and easy and let God show us the best way for those plans to happen. Have a blessed rest of your week, Church Family!! Blessings, Pastors Sheli and Steve
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