Lisa Cline's Blog, page 49
May 5, 2014
Heart Check
Trusting God to lead you sometimes means allowing Him to lead you into places that you don’t want to go but that are necessary for growth and preparation.
Yesterday I went through some hard things. No one was killed, or maimed, or hurt, but what did happen is that God allowed an area of my heart to be exposed that, if left to grow, would of taken my focus of serving and helping others in His name and put squarely on pleasing myself.
I realize now that even a pencil dot of me wants recognition for serving in His name, it will be a pencil dot too much.
This is not about me, it’s about, has always been about him. So I repent of my foolish pride, and I give all that I am, once again to God, knowing that God loves me, notices me, and that is enough.
I am not sure when that door to England will open.
Maybe it will be after some more heart checks concerning other matters.
I am trusting God that He would not lead me into anything, would not allow anything that would not be for my ultimate God.
If you are hurt or wounded make sure that you turn to God not away from Him. What you have experienced may have just been a horrible act done to you, or a mistake, or even of your own doing but God can use it to shape you and mold you…or maybe he just wants to hold and heal you.
Whatever the case…Keep turning to Him not only that he may work through you, but so you may to be loved and restored, because He loves you, You are important to Him!!!!
May 4, 2014
Why I am willing to sell everything and move to another country when statistics say that I will return homeless in less than six months…
The short answer Jesus!
The long one is too long to tell in a blog post (even for me) but I will sum it all up by telling the following true story.
A few years ago when I was in the middle of a fourteen day fast, I was going through a rough patch and was feeling kind of unloved. So I decided to take a walk and listen to worship music.
When I started my walk there was a light wind, nothing much, I could barely feel it.
When I was almost home I said something like “God I know that you love me but I really just need a hug, couldn’t you just give me a hug.”
Right then the wind came crashing upon me from every side. I spread my arms open wide and God just hit me from the front, back, side, top, and bottom with powerful gusts of wind.
That in itself is a beautiful thing.
But what is really awesome is the fact that at the EXACT moment the first gust hit me, I was listening to these exact lyrics were playing in my ears
His love’s like a hurricane
I am the tree
Oh How He Love Us
Oh How He Loves us
That is why I am willing to risk everything, risk my future and my children’s
Because God is not distant!!!
God hears our prayers!!!
God loves us passionately!!!!
Because I have asked God to redirect my steps and He hasn’t, because God keeps opening doors, because God loves me, I know that I can trust Him.
I can trust him with my future and my children’s future.
So can you!!!
Because He is no respecter of persons.
Believe Him to direct you steps, and then start stepping and you will be amazed at where you end up!!
I know I am!
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Anything is possible
Joy unspeakable
Faith unsinkable
Love unstoppable
Anything is possible
- Casting Crowns
Believers
We are called “believers” not doubters, so lets be radical and the next time God gives us that little nudge to do something, let’s do it, and “believe” that He will catch us if we hear Him wrong. - Lisa Cline
May 3, 2014
Why a tidy package is usually not what Christians get handed
I love when God moves in my life, when He wants to give me that hope for a better future.
I have to admit though, that while I love the thought of change, the messiness of it can freak me out.
I want God to hand me my future in a nice tidy package with a big bow …but that is not usually how it works.
Gods leading is more a matter of his putting something on my heart, and as I step out he confirms what he wills for me, with signs.
So ever since God first called me to England I have been getting signs from him to remind me that it is indeed His leading me, and that I am not loosing my mind.
A lot of the signs are simple and yet are clearly from God as there could not be that many “coincidences.”
Although I live just outside of Seattle, Wa…quite a distance from England… I have run across more things from England in the last few months than in my entire life.
I will not surely remember them all but will list a few here…
A customer thought he was paying with a penny…it was a pence. He had no idea where it came from, and I now own it.
English book, flags, plates, spoons, jigsaw puzzels, ets…have been everywhere I looked.
I run into someone from England about every 5th day.
I dream about England (I have been for a year before I knew was going). I also have dreams about England in which parts have come true in Real life.
Whenever I question God’s plan for me to move to England something “English Related happens”
The two last “Coincidences” were to do with Manchester (the city I am going to)
I was at work and my friend/boss was talking with me about England and she came across a luggage tag (the paper kind the airport gives out) and it was stamped (Manchester) on it.
And
Yesterday I was thinking (even though I knew) “Am I really going to Manchester?” as I stood behind a counter at work. I turned my head just then and noticed that a boy of around 12 had stopped directly in front of me, his back facing me, and his crisp white shirt with read lettering answered my question.
It had bright red letters and on the top half said Manchester.
When I turned my head in disbelief at the timing, and look in the opposite direction he walked again in my view and again turned his back to me….
So although I want everything tidy and in a nice package with a bright red bow, so that I don’t “have to” worry, the fact is…I not only don’t have to worry….I am not supposed to!!!
And if you are a Christian, neither are you… you are NOT flying blind!!!
God tells us through His word that…
“The LORD will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.” (Isaiah 58:11, NET)
When God is leading you and you are finding it hard to believe…Ask Him for a sign. He has promised that as He leads you H e will revive you when weak.
So while you may not always get the tidy package from Him that you want…you can be sure that you will get the bow, because while God plans for our live are rarely, if ever, tidy…the signs are often as noticeable as a brightly colored bow.
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May 2, 2014
Why is is not silly to give away a million dollars and live off 36,000
“[People say] that’s just silly to give [away a million dollars and live off 36,000]. People are just constantly…’don’t you go living by faith [because it’s not the responsible thing to do]’…
I am done with it!
I want to stand here and brag about my God who has come through for me since day one, from believing in Him like a little kid.
Going, man I can give every single thing away!!
I can take my family through the valley of the shadow of death, in October we are going to India, China, Thailand, and my God is going to be with me!
And we can give and do anything and I am tired of people telling me. ‘oh no! Now you’ve got to be responsible because you are older. Because you have four kids, you’ve got this, you’ve got that.’
No! I’ve got the same Shepard!!!
I have the same Shepard!!!!!
Francis Chan
April 30, 2014
Gods plans for us
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
- Jeremiah 29:11
