tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504937085133014529.post3482057618687794480..comments2014-10-10T15:30:14.078-07:00Comments on The Faith Dare: FAITHdare #6: RevisitedAbigailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08562044773061891423noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504937085133014529.post-3244803245440570472010-04-13T06:31:52.282-07:002010-04-13T06:31:52.282-07:00I loved that video!I loved that video!Chamaliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05535336687339715732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504937085133014529.post-20103253733339083742010-04-11T17:27:24.750-07:002010-04-11T17:27:24.750-07:00Monica, it's so encouraging to me to know that...Monica, it's so encouraging to me to know that God is moving in your life! I'm so thankful that we do not have to walk this journey alone, but that God uses the lives of others to encourage and inspire us to keep on running the race. I am always so challenged when you share Michael's faith in the midst of the trials he faces in his world. I know God is using and will use his life in a mighty way...and I love what you said at the end, "I only know that while my son is being faithful right now, he will be ready when God calls him for other things, further away, and WE WILL GLADLY SAY GO ON SON!" I pray that, if I am ever a parent, I will have the same prayer for my children! I am praying that God will continue to work in your life...and thank you so much for sharing what He is teaching you along the way!Abigailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08562044773061891423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1504937085133014529.post-69948496561248066842010-04-11T12:42:47.514-07:002010-04-11T12:42:47.514-07:00OH ABIGAIL! When I read your post I screamed so lo...OH ABIGAIL! When I read your post I screamed so loud that my kids came running into the living room asking what happened and Justin asked if everything was alright. It was a scream of joy! It is so amazing that our brains are starting to think alike, scary, but amazing. I am so glad that you wrote what you wrote. I was going to write the same thing. I had to talk to Justin about it, and he asked me, would your rather be right with people of faithful to God. If you can't tell Justin is great on making me see the right path.<br />Oh what a joy is to follow God day by day. To be faithful daily, moment by moment, not on the big things, but on the smaller ones. Mathew 25 has been one of the greatest convicting passages of scripture to me (among others), how could God trust me with the big things, if I can't even follow Him in the small things. How short I fall everyday of being obedient to His will. <br />Let me share what local radical faithfulness loos to me. Now please, this is not lifting or worshiping my son, this is how God has created a new creature in my son, and how He makes all things new. Radical faithfulness for me is what my son does every day. He goes to school, knowing that he is the only follower of Christ in his class, witness to his atheist friend Ted everyday, not only with words but with actions, and to all of his friends, has many talks with his teacher, gets punched at, tripped, spit at, gets his bible thrown at, all because he believes on the One true God, while teachers look the other way. Now I am not boasting on my son , I am lifting on the One that gives him the power to go through these trials everyday. Michael finds his strength in the One that saved him and glories in Him everyday. To me that is radical obedience, because he has been doing all of this through out the school year, relaying only in God and the power of prayer. Christ has shown me that Michael has touched more lives with the gospel in less than a year than I have in eight years of my Christian walk. God is faithful, in every way. He shows me how much he longs for me to be obedient everyday, for me to just say Yes Lord, when He calls. I don't want to be too busy when there is a need right next door, even if I think that is small, but it might be great in my neighbors eyes. Being available doesn't mean, for us to be available to fly around the world to save lives, which don't get me wrong, those lives need to saved also, but I know that in my neighborhood there also lives that need to be saved, saved by the blood of the lamb. <br />I do know that Jesus commanded us to go and feed the poor and tent to the widows and the orphans, but right next door to me there are those that are lost and are poor in spirit. Don't they also need food and drink, but living water and the bread of life? Ok I can go on forever about this, this is just what God has been teaching me this week. I only know that while my son is being faithful right now, he will be ready when God calls him for other things, further away, and we will gladly say GO ON SON!<br />MonicaJustinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03879100737071858200noreply@blogger.com