Let God do the Work!

In all the blog postings that have been on our blog there is one thing that we have forgotten to mention about dreams, goals, and God's plan. We have mentioned that it takes waiting, it takes patience. But we have forgotten to mention the one most important component to all of it! It is trusting in God. See we can wait and be patient all we want but if we don't trust in God that we take things into our own hands, in the past years my husband and I have done that. We prayed and prayed and we read the bible seeking after Gods clear voice and direction and to some extent we trusted in God, however because we did not totally trust Him we tried to manipulate where God was going to take us and when; obviously after doing that twice it flopped and to this day we feel like God did that to 1. protect us but 2. to teach us to trust Him more. It is the hardest part about seeking after Gods plan (in my personal opinion)

So how do you get to that point where you fully hand it over to Him?
1.FAITH - You see trusting is a hard action to do anyway, especially when it was broken before by someone else, but trusting in an unseen God? that can be quite the challenge! But we believe in this unique and grand God because of our faith in Him and that helps us to trust Him a lot more!
2.STEP BACK- when we decide not to try to control our own lives, we STEP BACK, and let God do the work, he literally does start doing the work!

In this past two months we have really seen God starting to prepare the soil for us to do what we are called to do! and we haven't done a thing except Trust, Watch and Learn! its incredible how God opens up doors before you and starts doing things without US trying to intervene! But doesn't that make sense anyway? we make things too complicated for God to do things His perfect way. That is really the secret! God can do things we never imagined, can pull strings we could have never reached, because ...HE IS GOD! and He is GOOD! and He is FAITHFUL! don't forget that when you get frustrated that you are not where you thought you would be, or when you think that your not really in the direction that you were suppose to be.

Remember your dreams and visions were placed for a reason, and although we may want to be there and get there NOW, God has his own agenda set and ready for you, let Him guide you and show you instead.

Be Blessed!

Doors

Have you ever had decisions to make? -Silly question right? Well when I ask this I don’t mean pizza or Chinese tonight, Coke or Pepsi? The miniscule little decisions that in an instant we can answer. When I ask have you ever had decisions to make?, I mean the decisions that grab and tug your heart so hard it almost makes you dizzy not knowing what to decide on.

Most of the time we can say well “I just have no clue what God wants me to do!” and there we are waiting for his “audible” voice or a “special” sign and we wait, wait, and wait for Gods answer and then ignore that there was even a decision to be made until it comes up again. But let’s expand our knowledge a bit. I am a strong believer that God opens many doors for us to sometimes just choose. When we are aligned with God’s word and we are obedient to WHATEVER He has for us then I believe strongly that He gives us that freedom of deciding because either way we will always be in the path that He arranged for us. You see, so many times when someone is not following Gods will and is not being obedient to Gods direction we can quickly say “well she/he is getting out of Gods will” I strongly believe that we cannot “get out” of God’s will. Now hold your horses, don’t get too riled up! I stay on my stance because nothing comes by surprise to God, so someone necessarily not doing what God wants them to do at that moment doesn’t mean that they “got out” of God’s will, it just means they are going take longer getting there.

This is all to say that Phil and I are in HUGE need of your prayers, once again God has opened MANY opportunities and we need his direction in the matter. We have asked God to help us decide by April 1^st, yes, this is kind of short notice, but it has been in the process of prayer since early January.

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Comment down below and let me know what you think about Decisions & God’s Will.

Focus February

What a great month into this new year! I think in the month of January, God really started to unsettle our hearts about life and being complacent; As a individual and as a couple, our calling is not to stay stagnate and unfruitful! so we just felt that there was a real turning in our hearts that God is ready to open up a lot of doors for growth in our lives.

So coming into the month of February, we are putting our FOCUS on Gods will. We need a lot of direction and guidance about some opportunities that have appeared into our lives and we want to follow the will of God no matter what. Sometimes, when all the doors are closed and all you want to do is follow God's will you can become overwhelmed with not having an answer, and when those times come the wisest thing to do is to put a focus on God. One cherished friend of ours once said "when God says no, you know it! it is loud and clear that it is a N-O. But when God says yes sometimes it takes a huge leap of faith to know that it really is a Y-E-S." and in this time of focus you need faith! a word that evidently has been important in the month of January! so its all puzzling together its now just a time of waiting for a proper confirmation.

We need your help!

the most important need for this month:

PRAY! we need you to be our backup support by coming alongside with us and praying! that God will make clear of what it is suppose to do! Most importantly, that he would shut doors that need to be shut immediately and open doors and give us faith to go through them!

In this month of Focus, Faith and Waiting we will be praying and fasting once a week for God to give us clarity

there will be more details to come when we know God wants us to do!

-The A-team

New Years Resolution & Distractions

How many times do we look at January 1st and try to make a list compiled of resolutions of things we need to fix or better about ourselves and our life?

and how many times do we realize that we just write the list but fail to actually complete it. cause it seems to far out of reach?

I believe that there is one resolution should be the most important resolution.

not too difficult and not too easy that it can just happen...

New Year's Resolution #1

DO NOT give up on your dreams!

Phil & I have this huge dream of being part of something big and new. something foreign and something revolutionary for the church.

The dream we have takes alot of money, alot of support, and alot of time and effort. Honestly, it feels like it will take years for it to happen; and it just may take years to happen. But we are not giving up. Constantly, we remind ourselves of "the dream" and "the goal" Sometimes it seems a little overwhelming, but I look back and remind myself that I never came up with this dream on my own, God is the one who placed that dream and if he is the one who planted that dream in my heart, He will be the one to see it through.

The problem is that usually when we make up our resolutions, we get too caught up on the distractions

Distraction#1

There is just no enough time

Distraction#2

I just don't know if I can do it

Distraction#3

It just wont ever happen, so why try?

So my number one resolution is to never give up, even when it seems impossible, or even when I am so tired of it not happening. Most importantly to not focus on the distractions.