it's been an amazing week. 3 solid answers to prayers that i have been praying for years or months. my precious granddaughter getting baptised and to be in the water with her. it was so awesome.
the other 2 were significant to me but not nearly as amazing. if you know me you know i hate to speak in public. i choke, have anxiety, shake like crazy, etc. for months i have been praying for boldness. for months i have been praying for self-control. i told people i couldn't give a world vision presentation standing up in front of a bunch of people. i told my granddaughter i didn't have any self-control, i would buy the family pack of chocolate bars intending to eat 1 and put 3 away and always ended up eating all 4, the same day.
then last week someone gave me a book 'the tongue - a creative force' by charles cap. it's a good book. it talks about how we say we can't do something and because we've said we can't - we can't. so when i said i didn't have self-control i didn't. when i said i could get up in front of people and talk in public - i couldn't. but when i asked God to give me a spirit of power, love and self-control in Jesus' name, He did. there is a lot in the bible about the tongue. God spoke and it was. if you claim this power in Jesus' name you will have it.
2Tim1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
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