"When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul." 
NET Bible  Jer 29:13 
Pray Today: 
 
1.   Pray daily for God to plant a seed of               vision for your life.   

 

2.  Pray daily for the Holy Spirit to give you the      sensitivity to see a need you can fill THAT       day.    
 
3.  Pray daily for the bravery to act on it. 

 

 

Brave.  We watch movies about it.  Sing songs about it. But are we?

 

Recently, I really believed that God was preparing me to have to be brave.  Life-alteringly, no looking back brave.  Everything I read (Hello, Brave Girl Boots began during this season!!!), songs I heard, my Bible study topics, daily scriptures I was emailed each morning, it all pointed to me needing to get prepared to be really brave.  How I wish I could tell you that I was completely and utterly, 'come at me Satan', brave.  But I wasn't.  I had moments that I would cry out to God.  I begged.  I wept the only words that would come out, "Please God, don't make me have to be this brave.  Please."  But when the tears stopped, when I stopped, I took a breath and I felt it.  The confidence that if He did, in His divine providence, decide to have me walk through this door, I could.  I could be brave.  But only because He that lives in me would make me brave.  And the peace that washed over me was almost intoxicating.  Knowing that I would not be alone was enough.  Knowing that He had been through that door before, it was enough.  Knowing He would not leave me or forsake me.  It was enough.  He would put my Brave Girl Boots on me himself and walk through the valley with me.  Would I have had support from family and friends? Absolutely.  Undoubtedly.  But knowing that my Savior would walk with me, hold me, never leave me, it was enough.

And maybe that's all He needed to teach me.  This time.  In His amazing grace, He closed the door.  Locked it.  And I wept.  Uttered "thank you, thank you, thank you" until I couldn't anymore.  And I think it was enough.  In this moment, it was enough for my Lord to know that I would've depended on Him as my source of hope, source of grace, source of peace.  I already do, but there is nothing like standing in that doorway, with shaking hands and feet trying to pull on those Brave Girl Boots, knowing that He would put those boots on with his nail torn hands himself.  It was more than enough.

I pray that wherever God has you right now, in a valley, on a mountaintop, waiting in the hallway or with knocking knees in a doorway, you will discover that He is enough. And that truth will not just make you brave...it will set you free. 

 

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 
(Ephesians 6:10 ESV) 

 

 
Melissa Mulvaney: Lives in Canton, Michigan and attends Harvest Bible Church in Westland, Michigan.  Three Passions: Loving my family well,  becoming a more organized mom and giving hope, love and a big smile to those in need in Jesus' name. 
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