You can do anything,

I don't know about you.
But sometimes, when we young, we got told we can do anything.
Do you remember that?
Sometimes we can be sour pusses, sometimes we can just close up shop, and say show's over.
If something is hard to face or struggle with, when we have people that understand, we can draw closer to God.
If we hang around the wrong crowd, or say the wrong things, we can turn people off very quickly.
Sometimes in life, we go through as if God is a chef and has a special board, and we order from him. when it comes, we look at him as if to say this isn't what I ordered.
It might not be what we ordered, it might be the complete opposite, we need to trust him.
Now this isn't to beat you up, or slap on ''all you need is love or God.''
Sometimes we are too quick to write off someone who has a special talent.
If it's not picked up quickly that desire dies.
We can't afford to do anymore waiting, what ever you're doing today, perhaps you're waiting, for that 2nd wind, or that new vision to come, perhaps you're feeling like you need to go into the mission field, just to be noticed by God.
We might not be the most popular person, but we might be if, we encourage the weak, looking out for those people who are cast, or don't have hope.
God didn't just come to save us, he came to set us free, from anything we've been carrying around.
If you're wondering, if God is enough, are you wondering what is out there for you?
Scared of the unknown?
it says in his word, '' you will trample over the snake and the lion.''
We need to pray for protection, we need him every hour.
With God you can do anything.
Chloe

15 minutes of inconvenience

Hi there.
Well after yesterdays post,
I went out and had a walk around the garden, i always do that, when I feel a bit blue.
Sometimes life has it's highs and lows, and sometimes you can take on too much.
I felt a bit like that yesterday.
 I am a person that finds it hard to leave things, I have to process it, and I have to do better.
It doesn't help that I'm in a new job, and I have to give myself a chance.
And that comes with trusting yourself you can do the job, no matter what others think of you.
I recently came across, something in my own life, that I have to leave behind.
And that fixing. people.
Not really fixing people, but I have to let them make their own way in the world.
It's not because I have 2 successful brothers, one in business banking looking after 600 clients.
And one in broadcasting and journalism,
And here I am, all wondering what on earth is going on in myself.
I don't like the unknown, I like having a plan, I need to set appointments, and I need to be early for them, I like goals.
So why am I typing this? on a wet dunedin day with wet hair?
Simply because i need to be real with myself.
I need to say as Dad, says ''Put your big grandma undies on and face it.''
I need to face a few things, because i am nearly 30, I am saving up for a new volkswagen beetle. ( yes it did win the ladies car of the year.) I don't have a boyfriend.
I'm perfecly happy with my lot in life.
There's a war between guilt and grace, but Grace wins everytime.
 When you're in that broken space, when things just don't go your way.
When you feel like you're falling short.
Give God 15 minutes of inconvenience and see what he does.
He will come through for you.
So perhaps you need to  just take hold of the promises of God.
Don't just keep poking in the dark, wishing that you were like others.
Because you don't know how many people you're blessing.
They might just be thinking the same about you.
And work is work, people aren't asking you to be superstars, they're not wanting you to be mary Poppins.
If you're struggling with just life.
Put on some big girls undies, and be bold, be with people that don't see your way.
It doesn't mean to be a door mat, it doens't mean that you've got a weakness.
If you see a problem you have to be bold and point it out.
So you can do anything, because God has equiped you to do his work.
you don't have to stay there, but just for the time, until something else comes up.
See it as a stepping stone, to something that you really want to do.
God always, works to your best ability.
And he was the one to put that desire in your heart, and when it's there, it won't go away.
The thing is, not hold onto the wrong things and muse over them, learn to let go, don't take everything to heart, yes it can be easy, just to throw in the towel, sometimes people expect that.
But encourage your heart to beat again, encourage yourself to pick up that skill and do it, because God hasn't given that skill to any other person.
If you want to go overseas and work in orphanages, go and do it, you don't need a badge or quailifaction, to do his will.
The more you life for him the more you see that he has a plan, and that plan, might seem a bit flakey at the moment, it might seem that it's a mountain without a summit.
But God is there the key is to keep climbing, dispite the uncomfortableness.

Chloe

struggling to find peace?

Hi there,
How's it all going?
Are you finding it hard to stay in the fight?
Are you wondering if anything is going to change?
Have you slipped again?
My friend, if you are in that space and you're clutching to things that you can't give up.
And you just don't want to get up in the morning.
My friend, I feel for you, because you're probably fighting to find peace.
I'm not hear to say that everything is going to work out for the best.
I'm not going to put my spin on it, i'm not going to always check up on how you're getting on.
Because more often than not it doesn't help.
It can make maters worse, it can acutaly make you feel worse.
God doesn't expect us to, have it all together.
It's not about surrendering to him and doing his will, when everything around us might turn to custard, he understands.
When people pul the punches, and say things about us that are wrong, or your missing that good time, and now you're having not such a good time, or your missing the life you've once had.
God is there.
Other people, might want to get on your nerves, they might want to see you break, they might break your will.
My Dad always said if you're having a hard time think about someone who is going through a hard time. I really didn't want to hear that once. but it does help.
I think about all those people who have dissabilties, on the inside, not on the outside, and I wonder how they are getting on, I think about my friends who are different, and everyone thinking about them, they are normal people.
We can't always be perfect, we can't strive to fix the gaps in our own lives.
In my life I look back on the the times I've struggled to find peace, and it hasn't been that easy.
 There haven't been posts in my life, where I've seen God in person, but in the steady plod of daily life.
And if you're walking through the most hardest time of your life. perhaps you've discovered that you've got some test results, back from the doctor, perhaps you might get better, perhaps it's not the brightest outlook, perhaps you've been judged by your work, or how you might look.
Perhaps you haven't said the brightest of things but you've got, spirit, and you've got the will to fight and to find peace.
My friend if you're wondering if you're alone in the the world, and you're wondering why people judge you. They don't know the cost it has on your life, to get to where you are.
Don't look over your shoulder, wondering how you're getting on in their score books.
Just keep at the task at hand.
If God calls you to get the vunnerable off the streets, or go into the mission field, you know you can do it because you're God's calls you to act.
You can sing when you're winning, because you're on the winning team.
Chloe

Don't count the cost

Hi there.
How's things?
I've been away for 2 weeks, so I've been a bit amiss with things.
I've had a great time away, I've had a good break, and caught up with my family, which I haven't seen for the last 6 years so it was a nice time of catching up.
It was nice seeing my Nana in her 90th year, so it was nice just have time with her.
And driving her around in her 1986 Honda accord, it had character.
I had some really nice chats, and it encouraged me in the Lord.
I've come back with a good renewed mind, and spirit.
I did have one problem, in Wellington, because my Taxi got lost from the air port, to my friends flat.
 I kept watching his money monitor in the taxi, and being half Scottish I was thinking of the cost.
Then God came to me in that Taxi, with something, very crucial.
He asked me what my cost was to follow him.
Was I buying the blessings, and putting the amount of what I think he was worth  in the offering bag?
I was.
And I have to say, that sometimes, we go through life, when we don't have much money, then boom, we have a good job, and we have worked for it, when he asks of ourselves, we back away.
Why?
Because of the cost.
And it's so easy, isn't to bless others who are good to us, or who like us?
But how about the other side?
What happens if we find it hard to be kind to people who we can't ''fix''
God hasn't put us on earth to Fix people, or to wave a magic wand over them and make them all better, to turn a blind eye, to talk them up so that they feel better, that they can take on the world.
If we are doing this, we are tricking and lying to ourselves.
We lie every 10 minutes, hard to believe at times isn't?
And we lie out of fear, because we want to be rescued, by us or other people.
And it's so easy to lie.
Sometimes we need to see the truth for what it is, sometimes we need to get it out so that we can see clearly.
But it takes time to see it, it's not going to happen over night, we can be dictated by a feeling, because that person wants to control us, or to give us gold stars, just because we earn them.
We don't earn anything from  God, that's what is so amazing, about Grace.
Conflict, no one really wants it or enjoys it.
You know exactly, what's happened if you walk into a room where someone has argued.
It's not a room filled with joy.
God is there when it hurts, when quite frankly you've been so hurt in your life you don't even know if you can stand let alone walk, or enjoy things you've once enjoyed.
God isn't a one Hit wonder, he's not  a fleeting vapor.
When he talks to you, don't think about the cost,  do it because he knows that the cost is worth it.
When you cry out to God, with all you have, you get the most amazing clarity.
You're not controlled by a certain feeling, or oppression.
You're not under that law.
When you give out of God, you give unto him, he sees what you have done.
Those with the money should put it to where it should get used, other people abuse that, the people with the money has the power or the hindrance  of blessing.
God doesn't like corruption, he doesn't like it when people hold money back for their own uses.
Ananias and Sapphira's, is a good example of that.
So if you're an organization that says to people that every cent goes to that mission make sure that it does.
Because you are robbing people, and deceiving them and yourselves.
Don't hold things back that hinder God.
Do what is right, in God's sight, stick to your principles, stick in there, don't just drown in the storm, rise above it.
There's people out there to help you if you're feeling that oppressive nature, or holding funds back from people who need them.
They have faith in you, and miss-trust is worse than  death,  don't betray goodness.
Thank God for every good thing because it is good in his sight.
If you want to grow in Christ, don't count the cost.
love people when it seems like it's impossible.
Don't just sit in the pews, thinking about what God's plan is for your life.
Don't settle for 2nd best, be the 1st be the best.
That's all I have for you today.
Chloe