Godly Paths

I have been praying a lot.  When you know you are on a Godly path, that is when spiritual warfare is made know.  Its a battle everyday.  Whispers and actions to convince you, you are doing wrong.  What your heart tells you to do is- 'difficult and can't be done'.  People try to sideline you.  Anger stirs inside of you and doubt bubbles over.  Then God doesn't become our center and we let the enemy in.  Of course we don't see it at the time.  And your path, that was so clear, becomes a fork in the road.  Which way to go?  Will you chose the one God laid out for you, or one that looks a little better, a littler easier, a little more sparkley!?
A handful of women and I got together with passion and the Holy Spirit flowing through us.  We are the most odd mix of women.  Polar opposites in some cases.  God brought us together.  There is no doubt in my mind, it is Holy Spirit driven.  We have a few things in common, we have had wounds (some horrific and some just grazed the surface), God is the core in our life, and we are over flowing with this passion.  Passion to find women like us.  Ones that maybe you wouldn't think are Godly Women.  Ones that you know need to have the love of our Lord, Heal them.  It can be done.  Its easy....we have been there.  We have this stirring in us to find them and serve them.  We have a stirring in us to educate our fellow Christians.  We have this energy to make it known, The unloveable are SO loved.  We are all loved.  The hurt, the weary, the wounded, the hidden, the morally unjust.....they are my sisters.  They, too, were created in the image of God.  Man wasn't enough.  Man wasn't perfect in God's eyes...so He made Woman.  He put them in our path, and who are we to say they are not worthy of knowing HIS love.  It is HIS love afterall that is so wide spread, it is HIS world, HIS children.  
Although this blog today is brief.  I ask you, please pray for us.  Please call the armor around us with prayer.
  When you are out in the world today, when you are at the malls shopping, or in church waiting for service to begin.  Look around.  Take a good look at the people God put in your eyesight, in your path.  Look your sister in the eye.  Smile.  Say a prayer for them.  Ask forgiveness for judging them.  Making assumptions.  Especially out in public.  Don't cross the street to avoid their eyes.  Don't look away from them.  By just showering them with your brief second of time.  You showed them love.
They are just like me, and you.  Its your actions that cause change.

Stop and look around you.  Struggles are so public.  We as Christians want them kept private.  We don't want to know they have been hurt.  We want everything perfect.  Happy.  Go to church.  Get your praise on, tithe, and go home.  Happy.  I haven't been happy because I was falling for the words of the enemy, that my little own battle won't make a darn difference.  My little group of 4 won't change the world............  But my group of 4 has grown, to 12, to 20, to 34, ....the enemy got a little nervous and called out his own battle cry.  Causing doubt and insecurities to rise in our ministry.  He kind of likes to pinch and run.......brief pain but doesn't stick around for a confrontation.  Pinch and run.  Then I got so busy, 'ouching' from the pinch and I left God out of the battle, and let the enemy move in.  Still pinching and running because that is what he does.  He is a coward.

Refocus....

Our path is clearer now.  We have to refocus ourselves.  Keep on that Godly path.  It has been divinely birthed, and who are we to say, Its Not Possible?  He will provide our needs, make it known who we are and what we are to do.  He is doing just that.  We know we are on His Path....our hands of sisters who we will reach.

Keep it centered this Christmas.  Show some love by not turning away.  HE has put those people at that particular moment for a reason.  Testing what is inside us.