Love Brings the Impossible to Life in 2 Steps (Ep. 13)
God who is Love, Love who is God exists and is available to us all the time, personally and specifically to us. Keeping our hearts alive with Love therefore looks like 1) Believing the possibility and 2) feeding our hearts Love.
We, my husband and I, learned how “all things are possible with God,” recently when we stumbled upon a conference we both wanted to go to. All the limitations were loudly saying things like, ‘but we don’t have the money for the tickets let alone the travel and childcare,’ ‘we don’t know anyone who would watch our kids for that long.’ The reality of our bank account and our babysitter connections all seem to confirm this as fact. This is just how it is. The shift that started to turn impossible into reality happened when Jeff and I both prayed together and felt that God wanted us to both go to this conference. He gave us the ability to believe.
The thing about belief is that it’s not a once and done deal. We had to choose to believe over and over and over at every obstacle. Even on a seemingly ‘good’ day the doubts would creep in and we helped each other remember why we wanted to go, how God prompted the ‘yes’ for both of us to go, and we kept praying. We fed our belief.
I’ve talked before how we are finite containers of Love and our hearts were designed to run on Love alone. Like food that we eat and consume and need again, so is Love in our hearts. There are lots of ways you can feed your heart Love, stoking the belief. It brings to mind Matt. 4:4 when Jesus says, “man does not live on bread alone, but on a steady stream of words from God’s mouth.” I believe we were meant to receive God’s love straight from Him and then reinforce it for ourselves. We are meant to treat ourselves the way He treats us with every thought and action, sifting that Love through every feeling and decision. Our own words to ourselves, mirroring His words to us.
Spoiler alert :-) We went to the conference together with not just one but two babysitters willing to watch our children in an Airbnb just 10min from the conference site. Our impossible was possible feeding the belief that the Holy Spirit gave us, over and over and over with His Love. How many other places can I apply this to in my life? Or yours? I can’t wait to find out!