Feeling Fabulous Friday: New Vision & Counting the Cost

There has been significant revelation over the past week as to God's plan for our family, and I am trying to take it all in...to soak it all up and understand the changes that the Lord is prompting us to make. One thing is abundantly clear, He is forming us as His disciples and ministers of the Gospel and He is moving us out of comfortable misery into miserable comfort (so to speak). In other words, He keeps asking us to take chances, to risk, to give up comfort and security, and as we have been doing that, we have felt an inconceivable freedom and joy begin to wash over us.

I know now that great things are right around the corner.We are rounding the bend, and the way is being made clear. This is not merely positive thinking. God has been speaking to us quite clearly through Scriptures, songs, friends, and mentors. The pieces of the puzzle are beginning to come together.

Last week, I was inspired to write a poem. I wasn't really trying to write or create anything, but these words came to me in my time of worship and prayer on Tuesday. I see them now as a foreshadowing of the events of this past week. This is my commitment...my covenant with God:

The Way

By: Lauren King

When the way is dark

And the path is foggy still

No I will not turn aside

I will not forsake Thy will

When the road is rocky 

And the hill too steep to climb

I will resign myself to Your strength

And conquer in Your time

When the way is smooth and straight

And the horizon bright and clear

I will offer thanks for Your matchless grace

And Your presence ever near

No matter where the road may lead

Through mountain high or valley low

I will always praise Your glorious name

And follow where e'er You go 

I know this post as been rather vague, and I will share more details about the changes that are coming in our ministry, but I just wanted to acknowledge that after a long period of what seemed like God hiding His face from us, we are beginning to see His hand working in a mighty way in our life. We are also very aware that giving in to His will and His way for our life and ministry will not come without a price. So, as one of my new favorite worship songs says, we've "counted up the cost," and He is worth it!

The Cost

By: Rend Collective Experiment

God’s way is perfect.
    All the Lord’s promises prove true.
    He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.
For who is God except the Lord?
    Who but our God is a solid rock?
God arms me with strength,
    and he makes my way perfect.
He makes me as surefooted as a deer,
    enabling me to stand on mountain heights.
He trains my hands for battle;
    he strengthens my arm to draw a bronze bow.
You have given me your shield of victory.
    Your right hand supports me;
    your help has made me great.
You have made a wide path for my feet
    to keep them from slipping.


Psalm 18:30-36

And I will lead the blind

    in a way that they do not know,

in paths that they have not known

    I will guide them.

I will turn the darkness before them into light,

     the rough places into level ground.

These are the things I do,

    and I do not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:16