You can Run but, You Can't Hide!!

Many of us can probably say, we have been there, In one form or another.  Like, Moses we may have said, I can't speak; Like, Jeremiah who said, I am too young I can't speak but, How many of us are out Like, Jonah? Running. Uh, uh no not me, Lord!

READING: The Book of Jonah

Has God ever asked, you to do something, speak to someone, encourage someone and you felt like nah, that's just me? Asked, you to say something in Church? You say, They won't believe me,  I am scared to speak in front of people. I can't do that. Has anyone ever told you - you are called into the ministry/ have a calling on your life. Did you stop going to church altogether. You are not alone many of us have struggled with dis-obedience from  God's calling or simply telling us to speak to someone, give a certain offering, pray for someone or go somewhere.

I will say this… "YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!"

God does not take no for an answer, neither is there an excuse to justify our saying , no. Jonah by running from God stepped out of the will of God and out of fellowship with God, due to his disobedience. 

 I remember, the first time God told me to do something publicly, I was in my late 20's. I was shaking in my boots, "Oh, Lawd" and it was a big church not mega but big. I looked around at all those people and the first thing the devil said, in my ear was they are not going to believe you but he didn't have to say, anything I was just scared…So, I sat there. That thing, and I still remember word for word it stuck with me day after day, week after week; I could not rest, Uh I could not shake it, uh. I saw my  Pastor at the time outside watering the grass at the church and I told myself "okay, I'm going to do it." I walked, over to him and told him what the Lord, told me to say. He said, "I receive it!" I walked down the street so proud of myself , Happy, that I obeyed the Lord; I could have skipped home and at that very moment the Lord said, that is Not, how I told you to do it. My whole countenance fell and so did my head. That was the worse feeling to have disappointed God.

I Thank God, for his mercy and his Grace for he is a God of second chances. He truly knows your heart just do not use, misuse or abuse his Grace. Again, he knows your heart. The Lord grows and stretches us outside of our comfort zone. He is full aware of where we are when, we feel incapable, un-worthy, nervous, anxious, and scared to do those things he has called  us to do.

But, He knows the plans he has for us    . Regardless, of how we feel, we MUST be OBEDIENT! Feelings do not move God but, Faith does! Jonah, Ran from God he went through all that and still didn't get away from what God purposed for him. Running did not void him of doing what God said, to do. "What God has for you is for you!

 

YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!

 Acknowledge, your faults ask God, to forgive you for being dis-obedient. Get it right from here on and be OBEDIENT is better than Sacrifice. What you feel Incapable or Disabled to do… God, has already, Enabled You!