Give It All To Him!

God is so amazing!!  I am so excited by all that He is doing in our lives and the lives of my loved ones!  Hallelujah! God is on the throne and fully present & in control!

One of the things that He is telling me to do during this time of extreme physical trial with my health is to GO OUTSIDE & WALK!  It was quite amazing to me how powerful that statement was, no ands ifs or buts about it.  So that's what I have been doing every day, even when I feel so weak and hungry and sick!  But once I get started, I get feeling better and during my time of walking, I feel so energized and connected with Him.  I've been walking about 40 - 60 minutes a day and loving it.  I was out today and brought my camera with me on a whim.  I passed by this chain link fence and felt compelled to take a picture of it.  Right as I was standing there composting the shot, God told me He was going to BUST off the chains that bind my health and set me free!  I got so excited that I let out a whoop of Praise Jesus right there all by myself!

I wanted to share this so that anyone reading this can be encouraged, that even in the midst of difficult circumstances...tough marriages, financial crisis, illness like I am walking through (and have been for 40 years), God IS THERE in the midst walking with us and encouraging us if we LET him.  So many times I have turned away from Him in anger and frustration because He is not healing me!  But I see now that I needed to get on board fully with Him, submit my WILL fully to His and be FULLY obedient to all that He's asking me to do in this walk.  Something I didn't do before...partly due to fear of what He was asking me to do and partly because I held back from my own lack of faith.  I have made the commitment to do whatever He asks of me in this process, like walking every day even when I don't feel up to it.  I know it sounds like a small thing, but when I feel so weak and sick, it's big to me!  He is blessing me in my obedience and I am feeling so much closer to Him and hearing His voice so clearly because mine has diminished into the background.  I pray that it will get fainter as I continue on with Him.

More of Him, much much LESS of me.  Praise Jesus!

Here is the picture I took today on my walk!