Faith

What is faith? It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see. So, you see, it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that there is a God and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. Hebrews 11:1, 6 (NLT)

What things are possible for you today through faith? All things are possible, because your faith is in the God who knows no impossibilities.

When the things that you are experiencing don’t make sense, faith says, “God knows what He is doing.”
When your resources don’t match your need, faith says, “God is my provider.”

When you are fearful to take the next step, faith says, “God will not fail me.”

When you’re not sure what to do next, faith says, “God will guide me.”

When you are in a situation that seems impossible, faith says, “Nothing is too hard for the Lord.”

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[Sharmaine]

Greetings Roy,

God led me to you this morning and I just had to write you to you when he has done an amazing thing as this! In some ways this is relevant to your post and in other ways, my heart just leaps at God confirming his power and his wisdom in my life.

For the past three years on my home office desk and at my nightstand table is a plaque given to me by my mother that says "God not only knows where he is taking you, but he also knows how to get you there." ~Roy Lessin. She gave that to me in 2005 when I turned 50 and embarked upon creating a more meaningful life to encourage and inspire others. It has been there so long that I see the lighthouse and repeat it to myself silently.

Through the divine hand of God I found you this morning, seemingly quite innoccently...following my thoughts which seemed to be random. I checked an email from "leap of faith" a young woman that befriended me through the internet as a result of her reading one of my articles (God Knows Exactly Where You Are that was published on Heartwarmers.com as Your Turn...this is a whole other story). But I checked her email this morning and I thought about the book God has written between us this year by the same name (leap of faith) and how I should really put it all together in preparation for the opportunity to share it because it would come soon and to be ready. I also thought of extracting out 365 days worth of inspiration from our correspondence to make it into a calendar similar to the one I picked up in a local drugstore this week, that I was drawn to (by Dayspring).

I am a woman of faith, of great faith, but this year when I really buckled down to following the voice of God, I was tested at every turn, so much that I thought perhaps I had missed it. For 12 years I've managed my finances, been a generous giver, an encourager and was really settling in to a much deeper and custom relationship with God. But midway through the year, I cried out to God and asked him to show me that I was indeed following HIM and not my own agenda. Finances were dwindling, I was camped at my computer writing day and night, the pounds were adding on, I'd become a recluse...I didn't understand how this could be.

In July a series of "answers came back to me" and the most compelling was the email from leap of faith pouring out her whole heart to me. She told me the words on my website were as though God was personally speaking to her in the midst of her situation. It was a though God had sent me a younger version of myself to mentor and encourage...she was merely stranded in her mind, not in her life, as was I. In writing to each other, I poured into her spirit and she drew out of me my God given gifts. I held a mirror of possibility and perspective to her life and she wrote me back giving me a larger mirror of my own life. It was so sweet and precious and I am grateful for this beautiful gift of 2008. I had my answer...I was on the right track. But what about the income?

This is the beautiful thing about finding you this morning...we're almost at the end of the year and just this week, God gave me a miracle on my home and the rate was reduced to 3.86%. I had been standing in faith, yet heavy in my heart about my home and my credit rating. God cut through all of that and fixed it. I was thinking about how I've always measured myself through the yardstick of money, but this year my income decreased by 60% and my worth was trying to dwindle right along with it. However I became more valuable within my heart and my soul and my inner worth grew. Now God is getting the highest and best use from my life. I don't know the "how" but the miracle of my home and then finding you today has confirmed that it's all handled!

God used me to help a young woman make inner restitution to herself. My books are written and ready...my opportunity will come. Going to the Dayspring website finding you reminded me of something I've known all along: God not only knows where he is taking me, but HE knows how to get me there.

Thank you for writing this profound quote. Finding you today is God's way of winking at me and reminding me, he's got it all planned out...I just need to keep walking towards him.
Blessings and all good things,
Sharmaine