This morning, i received the "Purpose Driven Life" devotional as i do every morning and it was as though God was listening to all of those conversations yesterday and sensed my "logical" uneasiness and spoke directly to me once again!! Here was today's devotional - i hope all who read it can take from it hope and faith to step out in their own lives and own ways to do something that has been rattling around in their hearts! :)
Risks in Faith: Where God Guides, God Provides
by Rick Warren
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19 (NIV)
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If God tells you to do something, he will give you the energy, talent, resources – whatever you need – to do it. Where God guides, he provides.
In 1979, I was finishing seminary in
But my wife, Kay, and I decided to take a risk and launch out in faith. We loaded a U-Haul truck and moved with our four-month-old daughter to the
We arrived during rush hour in January, 1980. I grew up in a town of fewer than 500 people, so when I saw the jam-packed freeway, I thought God had chosen the wrong guy.
But where God guides, God provides. We stopped at a real estate office and I met Don Dale. I said, “My name is Rick Warren and I'm here to start a new church. I need a place to live and I don’t have any money.”
Within two hours, Don found us a condo with the first month rent-free. Don also became the first member of
God began bringing others to join us in planting a church. And in April of 1980, 205 people streamed up the ramp at
Kay and I believed in the dream and the vision that God gave us for the
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