Hmm...

When do we pray to God the most? When do we talk to God more? Through troubled times or times of happiness?
To my eyes, I see that we're selfish human beings. We start praying and asking God this and that. We start praying when we have a test the next day, when you're leading worship the next day, or something that's important and you know you've been slacking your work and you can't do it without a miracle.
Once it's over, once we got what we got. Once we succeed or failed in whatever we had, we forget God. We forget about Him. We forget our walks, we forget our praises to Him, and we just live our lives because we don't "need" Him. Everything's 'perfect'. 


Pastor Jason taught yesterday about how we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. All the time, 24/7. We need to 'break camp' and move. We need to stop stopping where we are at, and move on. Go forth. We need to become stronger Spiritually. Not stopping. Not going back.


"Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates."
                                                          ~ Deuteronomy 1:7

It helped me realized, I've been having a limit. I grow and grow, seeing the miracles and things that God wants me too see. Giving me verses that opens my eyes and tells me on what I need to do. I have this point, where, after I lead worship, after weeks of constant devotions, I feel like I'm good where I'm at. I start losing focus. I start forgetting why I need to keep going. And I just feel like that where I am at is fine. That I can just relax.

"Break Camp"

I guess God wants me to go forward. To push myself. He wants me to see and learn more.

This has always been in the back of my head. I mean, brothers and sisters, we all seen miracles performed by God, our God. We've seen the works and wonders God provided. We say we believe He's true. That's there is a God out there. Why then, do we doubt Him? Why do we not believe that God is doing something right now, this very second? Changing our lives, having our lives planned out before we were even born?

I mean, the disciples,  they've seen miracles Physically!!!

They saw him feed the 5,000. Heal the sick, the blind, and the poor.

But when they saw Him walk on water, they were terrified. When they saw Him calm the sea, they were astonished. Surprised. In awe.

So how would you define believe? Faith? 

We say we have faith, but do we believe? When we pray, do we just pray and hope? Or do we pray and KNOW he'll do something.

Yeah, it's hard, it takes time. But what I figured out is.

The more I spend time with Him. The more I seek Him.
The more I love Him. The more He'll open my eyes.

It takes time to develop a strong foundation. You can't just do it in one night, though God can do that.

Patience.

Perspective.

Time.

Those 3 words are the words I found out are for everything.

Patience in reading His Word. Studying. Praying. 

Perspective in a sense of seeing everything differently. Seeing people with the eyes of compassion, instead of hate. The ability to see what others cannot.

Time. You can't go back, time is always running. You can't stop it. Managing your time, your schedule in order to do everything well.