Does that statement mean anything to you? Have you ever had that moment where whatever it is is just plain freakin hard. Everything in you wants to scream and yell. You just feel like this is so stupid. Why me?

Why do we always make things so hard? Ya know, I’m going through something right now myself and it’s like, “AHHHhhhhhhhhhh this is soooo hard God, why is this so hard?” You know you have to do something, say something or go somewhere… but you just FIGHT like there is no tomorrow with it and you say,”God I just need direction” or “God I don’t know what to do, where to go, how to live”… Ya know I kinda wonder if that is the “resounding gong” that the Bible talks about.

I heard something today that really nailed home… TD Jakes was saying how the Israelites had been in captivity for 400 years and now they were leaving and they came to the Red Sea…. They could hear the POUNDING HOOF BEATS of Pharoh’s army coming after them. They had no where to go, and all of a sudden they started to cry out against Moses and say things like, “We should never have left” or “Let’s go back”….

Do you feel like that sometimes… You step out and everything starts to get a little “risky” and “unsafe” and all of a sudden you start running back… DON’T LISTEN TO THE “HOOFBEATS OF YOUR PAST” It doesn’t matter what you have done, where you have been, what happened… Let it go… If you were hurt, stabbed, laughed at, scorned, alone, and on and on the list goes… Leave it behind… STRETCH OUT YOUR ARM (just as Moses did) and WALK ONTO THE DRY LAND. We MUST have a good hand eye co-ordination… Between our dreams and visions and what we are doing to attain them and the paths we take to get there… Moses lifted up his arms towards the Promised Land and set his eyes in the same direction and TRUSTED THE LORD to take them through…

I don’t know what you are going through right now, but raise your hands, lift up your eyes onto the hills from where your help comes from. Keep fixed on that dream/vision. It won’t be easy. But one day at a time God will continue to guide you and lead you towards what he has set before you.

I would REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY encourage you all to download or get ahold of T.D. Jakes messages, ” Matter of Time”, “2 Decision”, “Living with the Threat of Failure” !!!!!!!!!!

ABSOLUTELY POWERFUL AND I TRULY BELIEVE IT WILL COMPLETELY ALTER SOME OF YOUR LIVES IF NOT ALL IF YOU ALLOW IT… But hey, don’t take my word for it… BE A CHICKEN; DON’T LISTEN !!!!!! lol

Blessings,

Shaun & Tara

p.s. just a thought… not a sermon…