Allowing God to do His thing

September 27, 2008 at 6:34 (His Voice)

 

 

God has been speaking so clearly into my life the last 2 weeks, it has been amazing. I have always been the type of person that never really knew if God was talking to me, or if it was just me, talking inside my head! (I tend to do that often!:)) I wrote in an earlier post about my worship experience last sunday morning and hearing God over the loud rockin’ music! I won’t go into full detail about what I wrote but here is a recap. We sang this song titled God of This City, sung by Chris Tomlin. Beautiful song with a powerful message.

The chorus:

Greater things have yet to come

Greater things are still to come

Greater things are still to be done

 

God was saying to me, “Don’t be discouraged because I have greater things for you. I have greater things planned for you, its coming, be patient!” Wow! I thought. I knew that was God speaking into my life. I wept as we sang the song and know I sing it all the time reminding myself that “Greater things have yet to come!”

 

Now that I know and believe this in my heart, that God has this thing coming, I have to trust Him. What a hard thing to do. As I was praying this week about what it is that I desire, God spoke softly saying, “I have this, if you say you trust Me, and that I am in control, then let Me be in control! If you say you trust Me, then you have stop trying to take matters into your own hands, and let Me do My thing. I have it all planned out for when it is going to happen. Trust me Hannah. There are times that I need you to be My hands, but this one  thing, I’ve got it. You don’t have to worry about it. Let your “hands” rest.

 

What a challenge this has been for me over the past week. I have been so tempted to go to my calendar and count the days. But I have been able to stay strong and be obedient to what God has asked of me. I know I will be “rewarded” in the end.

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Glorious One!

September 21, 2008 at 6:34 (His Voice, Simple Living)

I was touched this morning at church in a way that I haven’t felt in a long time. The Holy Spirit just took hold of me and wrapped me in His arms. His presence this morning was so sweet and calming to me. I was encouraged today as we sang during worship. I lifted my voice up to Him and opened my arms to let Him in, saying, ”God, I give it all to you!”

 

We sang an awesome song called Glorious One, by Steve Fee. The chorus says:

“Glorious One, Glorious One! Light of the world, You out shine the sun, King of all Kings, eternity sings. Glorious One!”

My heart was heavy this morning. I was sad. I felt alone. I thought, “Why God? Why not now? What are you waiting for because I am ready?”

The band was playing and Jared was singing the verses and when we got to the chorus I just cried out, “Glorious One, Glorious One…” the words barely came out of my mouth as the tears ran down my face. At that moment all the darkness, hurt, pain, and sadness, was lifted from me. Even in times of sadness, God is still my Light, and He out shines every bit of darkness I walk into. My God is greater than anything and everything I feel and think. He is the Glorious One! The song goes on the say,” There is no one more beautiful. There is no one more wonderful!” Isn’t that so true? When things aren’t going as we planned and life starts to get ugly, I look to my God and in the midst of the “ugliness” I can see Beauty.

 

We started a new series today titled God of this City, and our pastor’s message today was great, and I will talk more about that another time. There is a song with that same title by Chris Tomlin, which we also sang this morning. The tears just flowed as I continued to worship to this song. The words hit me in two ways, one was for the church and the other was for me personally. God is doing great things in our city, but greater things are coming!

Part of the Chorus:

“Greater things have yet to come, Greater things are still to be in this city”

One Verse:

You’re the Lord of Creation
The Creator of all things
You’re the King above all Kings
You Are

You’re the strength in our weakness
You’re the love to the broken
You’re the joy in the sadness
You Are

For the church: It was so moving to be singing about our city and how God has all these great things planned

For me personnaly: I know he is the Lord of creation and will create ALL things. When I am weak, He is my strength. When I am broken, He is there to love. When I am sad, He is my joy. It is so easy for me to say something like, “Its all in God’s timing and His perfect plan for life.” But sometimes it is hard for me to really believe that in my heart. He has already “created” what I desire and long for and in this time of waiting when I sometimes feel, weak, broken, and sad, I can remember what I sang about today. God was telling me this morning, “Hannah, Greater things have yet to come, and greater things are still to be done.  Don’t be weak, for greater things have yet to come. Don’t be broken, for greater things are still to come. Don’t be sad, for greater things are still to be done in you!”

Thank you God for speaking this into my life and for encouraging me to look ahead at the greater things that  are coming. While I wait for You to deliver, be my strength, be my love, and be my joy. I praise You for being the Light that I need, You are the Glorious One, the Glrorious One!

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