Journeying in Circles

Have you ever had a moment in your life where you feel like, "I've been here before."?  Some people call it Dejavu (spell check please).  It's when you feel like this exact moment has happened already.  I have had that moment so much in my life, and sometimes it was because of my brain momentarily shutting off and then on again, this is the scientific explanation, and sometimes it was real.  There are so many times when I started to do what I felt God was telling me and then I got distracted with doubts or shiny "fruit" and turned aside.  In those times, God has been so gracious to me.  He let me wander around until I found my way back to the place where I first turned aside.  That has been me in this blog "ministry?" this year.  I started off saying, "I'm going to keep writing, and I am going to develop what God gave me a vision for."  I was so excited to start doing walks of faith and engaging with the people around me.  I was so determined to pray and tell people my firsthand experience of God's love.  Then I started to worry about time, money, my vision.  I got away from what God showed me, and I've been circling ever since.  I am just like the people of Israel who chose to wander in the dessert for 40 years instead of going into the promised land when they first arrived.  I am tired of merely surviving and I want to get on with the business of being who God created me to be and doing what God kept me here to do.  If that is you as well, let's pray together for the next 40 days that God would give us Joshua like courage and Godly wisdom to journey the course that God told us to go.  This is my prayer for the next 40 days.  I don't know what God will do, but I know that he loves me, and he has wonderful plans for me.  I know that the joy of the Lord adds no sorrow with it.  I know that if I ask anything in Jesus' name that he hears me and he will do it, if I am sincere and in the right spirit.  Let us pray!! God's people were not meant to wander aimlessly, but to walk circumspectly.

scriptures to reference:
Joshua 1
Ephesians 5

Joshua 1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.
Ephesians 5:14-17
 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

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