BOLD.faith....
There are a lot of things that I love about being a Christ follower, but one of my favorites is when you are able to explicitly experience God's reigning truth that He speaks about in His word. So today's post is to encourage you all to know that God is real, living, and ready to reveal Himself to you.
So if you have been reading my previous posts, you know about my God-sized dream that I have been pursuing...well I guess I haven't been too explicit with what the dream is exactly, but let's just say it has to do with proclaiming God's truth to the nations...well maybe just a group of college students, but it still my nation. Anyway, having a God-sized dreams requires some God-sized faith.
For the past few months I have been struggling with this idea of BOLD faith. Faith that is so confident that the outcome will be right and positive, faith that was convinced that what you believe in 100% sure. Faith that is absolutely certain.A lot of those words kind of scare me since there is so much defined certainness in them. But truly my 'doubt' or 'fear' per say was what was holding me back from my BOLD faith. Doubt that God's truth wasn't really truth. Doubt that what I have told many students and mentees was not true. I doubted that God wasn't going to bless his children who followed him. I doubted his faithfulness and thought that He was going to abandon me in times of trouble. I thought that this God-sized dream that He has put in my heart was not in fact HIS dream for me. I doubted God's truth.
One morning I was reading a devotion and came across this verse:
'Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete' -John 16:24.
As I read it and I thought..well I have too asked for these things that I desire...I've been praying for a full time job for my husband for more than a year! I have been praying that I would be able to do full-time ministry for what seems like forever...or have I? Was I praying in the name of Jordyn or the name of JESUS? There is a difference-am I praying for me and my selfish plan or was I praying that God's plan for me would happen? So that day I decided to change my prayers...I decided to start praying in BOLDNESS that God's plan would happen, not mine. I struggled with this quite a bit since I didn't want to continue at my current job and I truly wanted to pursue my God-sized dream but I knew that I needed to pray in the name of Jesus. So I prayed for days, weeks, months in the name of Jesus Christ.
Through these weeks of BOLD prayer and faith, I was offered my dream job (it requires some hard work, but I got my God-sized dream) AND my husband was offered a full-time job at his company. The two things that, for the last year I had been praying for, but this time I was praying in the name of Jesus Christ and the scripture from John just became my reality. Even as I write this I am overwhelmed with humility, knowing that God's faithfulness and blessings do not require us to do all these dramatic and over the top things. Having BOLD faith doesn't require us to be the most popular person, the person who everyone loves...BOLD FAITH REQUIRES TRUST IN HIM, CHRIST'S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, and A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST! Those are the things that we need to focus on and strive for. I have never been more ON FIRE for our Savior and my love for him grows EVERYDAY!
But I had to take a step of faith...a step of BOLD faith. Matthew 21: 21-22:
'Jesus replied, Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go throw yourself into the sea' and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask in prayer'
Do you believe? Do you trust that God is who he says he is? Then have BOLD faith to ask for things in the name of Jesus...
Please remember...asking for things in the name of Jesus doesn't mean that you will become rich and famous and have these earthly things given unto you...praying in the name of Jesus means that HIS will be done, not yours and when you are walking hand in hand, heart in heart with Him, the things that you desire for your life will be the same God desires for you too.
I pray that you all have BOLD faith and experience the truth of God that is written in His word. I pray his truth becomes your reality.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Good. Better. BEST.
I want an awesome life. Not the type of life that is filled with worldly awesome things, but a life that is filled God-awesome things. I've been on a pretty interesting journey with God that last few months. One of my first blog posts here was about having God-sized dreams and how I was going to pursue mine...well guess what...my God-size dream is COMING TRUE! Ha. I laugh a little now even as I write about my new reality, but for so long I've been living a life that is filled with content. A life is that okay with 'good'. A life where something 'good' happens and I think I'm living in God's living power.
Well I'm here to remind us all that God came to give us LIFE and life to the FULLNESS! But what does a 'full life' look like? I mean I have lived a great life, a life filled with life-giving truth. But could there be more? Does the reality of God truly wanting to give us a truly full life really reign true in our life?
This brings me to the title of this post. Good. Better. BEST! I know that God wants good things for all of his children. And believe me, I can look back on my short 24 year long life and point out countless 'good' things. But my challenge is for myself and anyone who cares to read this...what if we wait for God's 'better' things...or even 'BEST' things? We could go through life choosing the first opportunity that God places in front us thinking that's all He's going to offer, but what if God has more for us and if we are willing to wait just a little longer, we would be able to experience the God-awesome things he has.
Now don't get me wrong, God will use every choice that we decide to make to his glory and his will, but I am trying something a little different in my life right now. I am really good at choosing the 'good' things that come along in my life, some of may be that I don't think I am good enough for anything more. But after pursuing my God-sized dream, and it coming true, it made me stop and think a little. What if these dreams aren't really that giant of things, but really just the amazing, great, best things that God has in store for me? What if I choose to just trust in the maker of this creation, the one who is more constant than anything here on earth, the one who CHOSE to die for me? What would happen if I waited for the best things God has for me? What if?
This journey that I chose a long time ago, the one that entails a sacrificial lifestyle, I knew was going to be hard, but who knew how rewarding it could be. I challenge you all to just wait one moment, let the good things pass and let God show you the GREAT, the BEST things he has for you. They may not be perfect and filled with rainbows and butterflies. Maybe it is a job that allows you to minister to other non-believers, maybe it's an opportunity to travel to a city with an unreached people group, maybe it's your God-sized dream, or maybe it is as simple as experiencing God's love through this human race...I don't know what the best thing is for you...but GOD DOES! and if we chose to believe that He is the God that He says He is and TRUST his goodness, we will be able to experience his GREATNESS!!
Pray for me...this journey isn't easy, but I know God has GREAT things and his BEST in store for me! I will pray for you. God is GREAT! Amen?
Well I'm here to remind us all that God came to give us LIFE and life to the FULLNESS! But what does a 'full life' look like? I mean I have lived a great life, a life filled with life-giving truth. But could there be more? Does the reality of God truly wanting to give us a truly full life really reign true in our life?
This brings me to the title of this post. Good. Better. BEST! I know that God wants good things for all of his children. And believe me, I can look back on my short 24 year long life and point out countless 'good' things. But my challenge is for myself and anyone who cares to read this...what if we wait for God's 'better' things...or even 'BEST' things? We could go through life choosing the first opportunity that God places in front us thinking that's all He's going to offer, but what if God has more for us and if we are willing to wait just a little longer, we would be able to experience the God-awesome things he has.
Now don't get me wrong, God will use every choice that we decide to make to his glory and his will, but I am trying something a little different in my life right now. I am really good at choosing the 'good' things that come along in my life, some of may be that I don't think I am good enough for anything more. But after pursuing my God-sized dream, and it coming true, it made me stop and think a little. What if these dreams aren't really that giant of things, but really just the amazing, great, best things that God has in store for me? What if I choose to just trust in the maker of this creation, the one who is more constant than anything here on earth, the one who CHOSE to die for me? What would happen if I waited for the best things God has for me? What if?
This journey that I chose a long time ago, the one that entails a sacrificial lifestyle, I knew was going to be hard, but who knew how rewarding it could be. I challenge you all to just wait one moment, let the good things pass and let God show you the GREAT, the BEST things he has for you. They may not be perfect and filled with rainbows and butterflies. Maybe it is a job that allows you to minister to other non-believers, maybe it's an opportunity to travel to a city with an unreached people group, maybe it's your God-sized dream, or maybe it is as simple as experiencing God's love through this human race...I don't know what the best thing is for you...but GOD DOES! and if we chose to believe that He is the God that He says He is and TRUST his goodness, we will be able to experience his GREATNESS!!
Pray for me...this journey isn't easy, but I know God has GREAT things and his BEST in store for me! I will pray for you. God is GREAT! Amen?
Monday, July 8, 2013
'Tis the Season
So here I am, awake at midnight on a work night, unable to turn off my mind. So I guess it means that I should blog.
Well I cant stop thinking about Ecclesiastes 3 and God's truth on seasons. Now there are all different kinds of seasons in life, I mean at Christmas we say 'Tis the Season' since it wouldn't be acceptable to have a Christmas tree up in your house in the middle of June...although some people do (to each their own), but there are certain times for certain things. Now this is exactly what God is saying in Ecclesiastes 3--There is a time to laugh, there is a time to cry, there is a time for hate there is a time for love, there is a time to tear down, there is a time to rebuild--there is a time for everything.
Well this is easier said than done. I think so many times we want to think that there is only times of joy, laughter, building up, living, etc for our journey with Christ, but what type of journey would it be if everything went as planned. I mean how many movies go exactly perfect to plan...well i mean besides the fact that everything is scripted. But I mean even the bad stuff if scripted there. Our lives are filled with ups and downs, good and bad. So why does it always surprise us when we enter into a season of crying, or tearing down. I mean aren't those the moments that shape us the most?
So here I sit at my computer realizing the season that I am in. I would compare it to, if you live in Minnesota, about January 28th when the winter storms just keep on coming and you never think winter is going to end and you are tired of all your sweaters and just want to go outside and enjoy the joyous sun. Well we all know that come May, most years, that the sun eventually comes out and the grass gets green and you find yourself just happy about life whenever the sun is shining. The thing is every year at the end of January, beginning of February, we doubt that summer will never come. Well if the past nth amount of years tell us anything, it is that the seasons are consistent. We know that after winter comes spring, then summer, than fall and again winter. It's a cycle and every season has it purpose and meaning.
So my challenge to myself and to anyone who may read this is that the seasons in our life are consistent too. We will have beautiful days that are filled with laughter and joy, but there will be times when you are in the dead of winter and not sure you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The thing to remember though is that God is constant, He is faithful and He cares more deeply for us than we can ever think or imagine. Therefore as we sit in those 'downs' of life, the seasons that we don't appreciate or like, remember that even GOD is in the midst of those. Maybe he brought you to this time and place so that you will be reminded of his glory. To be reminded that everything that happens in our lives is to be brought back to him. So when we have those crummy days we go to God and say. 'God, please help me. I cannot do this on my own. I need you in my life. I love you!' And then on those glorious days, we say, 'God, you are good and mighty. Thank you for these amazing blessings you pour out to me! For you are a loving God!'
Again, this is easier said than done, but as I, you probably need a reminder, so read Ecclesiastes 3 and remember there is a time for everything, and in the midst of everything there is God and he will ALWAYS be by your side leading you in His direction, even if you feel like you are ready or not.
to Him be the glory.
Well I cant stop thinking about Ecclesiastes 3 and God's truth on seasons. Now there are all different kinds of seasons in life, I mean at Christmas we say 'Tis the Season' since it wouldn't be acceptable to have a Christmas tree up in your house in the middle of June...although some people do (to each their own), but there are certain times for certain things. Now this is exactly what God is saying in Ecclesiastes 3--There is a time to laugh, there is a time to cry, there is a time for hate there is a time for love, there is a time to tear down, there is a time to rebuild--there is a time for everything.
Well this is easier said than done. I think so many times we want to think that there is only times of joy, laughter, building up, living, etc for our journey with Christ, but what type of journey would it be if everything went as planned. I mean how many movies go exactly perfect to plan...well i mean besides the fact that everything is scripted. But I mean even the bad stuff if scripted there. Our lives are filled with ups and downs, good and bad. So why does it always surprise us when we enter into a season of crying, or tearing down. I mean aren't those the moments that shape us the most?
So here I sit at my computer realizing the season that I am in. I would compare it to, if you live in Minnesota, about January 28th when the winter storms just keep on coming and you never think winter is going to end and you are tired of all your sweaters and just want to go outside and enjoy the joyous sun. Well we all know that come May, most years, that the sun eventually comes out and the grass gets green and you find yourself just happy about life whenever the sun is shining. The thing is every year at the end of January, beginning of February, we doubt that summer will never come. Well if the past nth amount of years tell us anything, it is that the seasons are consistent. We know that after winter comes spring, then summer, than fall and again winter. It's a cycle and every season has it purpose and meaning.
So my challenge to myself and to anyone who may read this is that the seasons in our life are consistent too. We will have beautiful days that are filled with laughter and joy, but there will be times when you are in the dead of winter and not sure you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The thing to remember though is that God is constant, He is faithful and He cares more deeply for us than we can ever think or imagine. Therefore as we sit in those 'downs' of life, the seasons that we don't appreciate or like, remember that even GOD is in the midst of those. Maybe he brought you to this time and place so that you will be reminded of his glory. To be reminded that everything that happens in our lives is to be brought back to him. So when we have those crummy days we go to God and say. 'God, please help me. I cannot do this on my own. I need you in my life. I love you!' And then on those glorious days, we say, 'God, you are good and mighty. Thank you for these amazing blessings you pour out to me! For you are a loving God!'
Again, this is easier said than done, but as I, you probably need a reminder, so read Ecclesiastes 3 and remember there is a time for everything, and in the midst of everything there is God and he will ALWAYS be by your side leading you in His direction, even if you feel like you are ready or not.
to Him be the glory.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
How Big are Your Dreams?
I got this book a week ago or so that is all about having God-sized dreams. It was very intriguing to me since I have felt like God has been pressing his 'God-sized' dream on my heart recently. I read the first couple of pages and the author kept on saying how we were made for God-sized dreams, and that we were worth pursuing them.
Now as I grew up I never felt like there was anything that I was exceptionally good at. I mean I got good grades, was musical, fairly athletic, but nothing that was-stop in your tracks, 'wow' type of good. Therefore when I saw my future I didn't ever dream big dreams-or think I was worth dreaming big dreams. Well the past month or so I think God has been trying to break that lie within me, because that is what it is- A LIE!!
So many times God presses dreams onto our hearts and we look at them as impossible and unreachable, but doesn't the Bible tell as that nothing is impossible with God and we are able to immeasurable great things in his name?! Then why do we think that when God shows us a glimpse of his plan for us that we so quickly doubt it will ever happen?
Well even though pursing my great God-sized dream still scares me and I still feel my insecurities creep up, I know that when God has his hand in what is going on in our lives-things tend to go his way. Therefore I have decided to jump in-ALL in and run the race that God has placed before me. I approach this great dream as a mere sinful human that, on my own-I am unable to accomplish anything, but with the big man upstairs guiding me-showing me where to go- I CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING!
So I ask you, How big are your dreams? Do you believe that you are worth accomplishing them? Has God pressed something so great on your heart that everyday you wake up thinking about it?
I then challenge you to chase those dreams. Know that God is every so present on the path that he has sent up for you. Let us believe that God is capable of all things and that he has chosen us-his grateful children-to use to accomplish his God-sized dreams!
Happy Dreaming!
Phil. 4:13; Eph 3:20; Matt 19:26
Now as I grew up I never felt like there was anything that I was exceptionally good at. I mean I got good grades, was musical, fairly athletic, but nothing that was-stop in your tracks, 'wow' type of good. Therefore when I saw my future I didn't ever dream big dreams-or think I was worth dreaming big dreams. Well the past month or so I think God has been trying to break that lie within me, because that is what it is- A LIE!!
So many times God presses dreams onto our hearts and we look at them as impossible and unreachable, but doesn't the Bible tell as that nothing is impossible with God and we are able to immeasurable great things in his name?! Then why do we think that when God shows us a glimpse of his plan for us that we so quickly doubt it will ever happen?
Well even though pursing my great God-sized dream still scares me and I still feel my insecurities creep up, I know that when God has his hand in what is going on in our lives-things tend to go his way. Therefore I have decided to jump in-ALL in and run the race that God has placed before me. I approach this great dream as a mere sinful human that, on my own-I am unable to accomplish anything, but with the big man upstairs guiding me-showing me where to go- I CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING!
So I ask you, How big are your dreams? Do you believe that you are worth accomplishing them? Has God pressed something so great on your heart that everyday you wake up thinking about it?
I then challenge you to chase those dreams. Know that God is every so present on the path that he has sent up for you. Let us believe that God is capable of all things and that he has chosen us-his grateful children-to use to accomplish his God-sized dreams!
Happy Dreaming!
Phil. 4:13; Eph 3:20; Matt 19:26
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Who am I?
I think blogs are interesting. I feel like the people who write them think that they are all that and have these amazing things they need to say. For me, I view this blog as a way to share what God has shown me over the years and the years to come. I am by no means an amazing writer, but I have learned that when we are open to God's will and teaching he will show us some profound things.
I guess this is my way of sharing these things with anyone who cares to listen. I don't believe that I am this extraordinary person, but I do believe God is and my prayer is that I will be able to share with others that we are able to see God in the most simplest of things in our everyday life.
Here begins my journey of sharing the greatest of Jesus with the world...or anyone who cares to read this. ha.
Welcome to the legacy of Jesus Christ through Jordyn Hill.
I guess this is my way of sharing these things with anyone who cares to listen. I don't believe that I am this extraordinary person, but I do believe God is and my prayer is that I will be able to share with others that we are able to see God in the most simplest of things in our everyday life.
Here begins my journey of sharing the greatest of Jesus with the world...or anyone who cares to read this. ha.
Welcome to the legacy of Jesus Christ through Jordyn Hill.
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