There are hundreds of little voices in my head telling me it's not going to work. Little devil voices telling me I can't.
Telling me I won't make it financially.
Telling me my parents won't completely understand.
Telling me I won't have a place to stay.
Telling me I won't have a car.
Telling me that I'm leaving too much behind.
Telling me I won't be able to find a job if I need one.
Telling me I'm not capable.
Telling me my parents would be more proud of me if I would've just gone to college.
Telling me that if I try to cross the ocean I'm being called to cross that I'm going to sink.
There are hundreds of little voices trying to hold me back.
A little over a month ago, God told me He wants me to go to Minnesota and work with a ministry there.
Before He revealed this to me, I was planning on moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma and attending Victory Bible College. I had come to terms with moving there. Most importantly, however, my parents had come to terms with it.
They were never thrilled with the idea that I was moving fourteen hours away, but like I said, they came to terms with it. They have always wanted me to go to college, but when it comes down to it, they always support me.
Anyways, as time has progressed through this last month, God showed me time and time again that Minnesota is exactly where He wants me. Just this last weekend, while I was up there visiting, He reassured me quite a few times.
Yet somehow, on my plane ride back home, I was half in tears trying to block out the hundreds of voices filling the inside my head.
The voices telling me I can't.
The voices telling me it's impossible.
The voices of the devil.
Tell me what kind of thoughts is the devil planting in your head?
Is he telling you to quit?
Is he telling you you're not worth it?
Is he telling you that you won't make it?
Is he telling you your parents don't love you?
Is he telling you that God's plan is too hard? Too much work?
I could go on and on about what he may or may not be telling you.
But the truth is that the closer you are to God and what He has for you, the harder the devil is going to try to keep you from it.
He's going to place thoughts in your head telling you you won't make it. He may even place thoughts in the heads of your loved ones causing them to worry and causing them to doubt.
He's going to fight.
He's going to fight because he's losing.
Sometimes there isn't an easy way to block out the things that satan is trying to tell you. The truth is that as long as you are seeking God's direction in your life, satan will be there trying to oppose you. Trying to turn you to him. Trying to make you give up.
What you have to remember is that one voice.
That one voice that told you to go in the first place.
The one voice that told you He will make a way when there is no way. The one voice who told you all things are possible with Him. The one voice who told you that you don't need to worry about what you will eat or what you will drink because life is more than those things. The one voice that told you that as long as you seek His kingdom first, that these things will be given to you.
That's the voice you want to hold on to.
God's voice.
Because His voice is the one that will lead you safely across the ocean of impossible.
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
And why do you worry about your clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is throw into the fire, will he not much more clothe you- you of little faith?
So do not worry saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
For the pagans run after all of these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
-Matthew 6:25-34
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