God ALWAYS shows up!

You know the moment...you are standing there with this look on your face that is a mix between awe and when is Ashton Kutcher going to show up because surely I am being punked.  I have had many of those moments in my life and today was no different. Today God gave me a big ol' I told you so.  He has been yelling in my ear that I only had to do my part...which by the way should be really easy...and just.be.faithful and know that I have a sovereign God who is continually capable of WAY more than I can ask or imagine.  There is NO OTHER explanation for today....well really any day of the 37 years I have lived so far.  
     
A couple of months ago when Melissa and I started talking about doing this podcast we laughed at the audacity of it all.  Who wants to listen to us...besides us and the unfortunate people who don't have a choice because we cook their dinners and wipe their noses...okay well I don't cook the dinner, but you get my point.  We laughed and laughed until we looked at each other one day and said you know what let's do this.  Let's be audacious for God...let's believe Ephesians 3:20 with all of our hearts and know that He is capable of so much more than we could ever give Him credit for.  (Insert the point where I tell you that there was still a mountain of doubt and insecurity in my heart and mind.)  Fortunately God had been laying the groundwork to give us the confidence, not in ourselves, but in Him that He could do this!   And better yet He would use these two unlikely vessels to accomplish what He needed.  Today God showed up BIG and as of 24 hours on the SoundCloud platform we have had 127 people listen to these two small town Jesus loving girls talk and talk and talk and talk for upwards of 53 minutes all about our people, what rocks our world, and how God rocks our hearts.  Y'all have liked and encouraged us through social media.  You have emailed us and left reviews, and we will never be able to thank you enough.  God used you for the encouragement that He knew we needed to stay on this path He has set before us.  

Tonight in my war room...that's a whole other blog in itself...I thanked God for everything He had done and showed me today.  I asked Him to give me scripture to read and pray over to continue to light this path.  And this is what He gave me:

Joshua 6:2
Joshua didn't bring those Jericho walls down...God did!
*My Jericho walls are my anxiety, my fear, and the chance of failure...any mindset or attitude that keeps me out of my promised land.

2 Corinthians 10:3-4
The weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down any strongholds over us.

Esther 4:14
You were called for such a time as this!

Our God is ALWAYS bigger and He ALWAYS shows up.  The way He shows up might not always look like what we had in mind, but His plan is Divine.  We have to have faith and believe in Him for what He is...the creator of our world...the passionate lover of His children...and a God so full of wonder and grace that He loves and uses even an unworthy sinner like me.  There is nothing more powerful than that!