One Step At A Time

You know the feeling after you have reached 1/3rd of the way through your run. Your at the point where you have just started to make it past the "Running isn't so bad, I could do this in my sleep,"  part and have moved into actual effort on your part to continue.

As you are trying to breathe steadily you think, "The end seems so far away, feels like I will never reach it." Overall feeling like you should just throw in the towel.....(I could be completely alone here HaHa) 

Though this is the reality of how one (cough cough ME) might feel while facing a challenge this is not a positive mind set to have. Though the finish line might be distant, it is important to remember there always is one. God is sovereign and he has the ultimate plan. 

Sure he may not put you were you want to be, in your bed or on your couch marathoning Netflix (Lets be real, cause that's what we want!) He will lead you to finish where you need to be. Which makes the work and effort all the more better!

Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." 

These words have been so imperative to me as I have started my Support Journey! Just over the past few weeks there has been time of doubt, frustration and dismay with myself as I have been seeking out the Ministry Partners the lord has for me. But scriptures like Jeremiah 29:11, Proverbs 16:9, Romans 8:28, and Proverbs 3:5-6 that have been encouraging me through it. 

It is important that we cast our eyes up to the hill and pull our hope from the Lord. Acknowledging areas and words of discouragement  in our lives and lifting them up in prayer to our Lord.Only in Him and the community of believers he as given us will we find the encouragement to push forward. 

In reality with God in the forefront, though those first few minutes of a run may be tough, the finish line is closer than it was a moment before!