By Faith

I had a moment of realization and unleashing today that I'd love to share with you.  We relocated to Maryland and because the move happened so quickly, we didn't attempt to sell our former home.  Rather we chose to rent it out.  Because of that decision and a couple of well meaning mentions from my mother, I've had the fear that we would return to that house to reside in one day.  I don't want to.  I have a lot of wonderful memories in that home; it's where we brought our babies home, it was my husband and I's first home together...but if I have a choice, I don't want to return there to live.  Only God knows the joy I have found since living there. 

I had the privilege of seeing Benny Hinn in person back in 2004.  He taught on the power of the blood of Jesus and it was a message I will never forget.  Just that impactful an evening.  The majority of his teaching came from Hebrews 11.  The Faith chapter of Hebrews, and it is my run to chapter when I feel myself trying to take over for God.  Yeppers.  I do that.  I think I've shared before that I have a boisterous sense of humor when it comes to my relationship with God.  I have got some fabulous inside jokes with Him that only He will ever 'get'.  It's dreamy. :) So today I'm reading about the faith of Abraham and Moses.  And how they overcame earthly obstacles because of their faith in our heavenly Father.  Then I read this little ditty: 'All these people were still living by faith when they died.  They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance.  And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.  People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own.  If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.  Instead, they were longing for a better country-a heavenly one.  Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.'  So two things happened.  The first thing I realized was that God was letting me know that trouble my heart feels right now isn't justified.  It's fleshy.  And secondly, He reminded me that I got rid of my moving boxes.  I remember feeling so clean about that action.  So if I could write my own Faith scripture it would say something like this: And by Faith, Lettie, knowing God had brought her to the land He prepared for her, recycled her cardboard boxes.

God is the original Rock star.  He is the Alpha and Omega and I couldn't be more thankful that He alone can soothe this (at times) restless heart.