Our Future is being framed

What if God wants to? That thing that is major bind, the issue that seems to be crumbling, that thing that you’ve been waiting for, not knowing how not knowing when. What if God is moving already?

We were all amazed on Friday night when our lead Pastor Adam unveiled VIVE’s next year’s vision for our Church. Everything has bee building up to this. Five churches in one year, cherished cities across the US and another in Italy. We expected something this big and mighty and wild, a vision. That’s how we roll at VIVE. That’s how audacious Pastor Adam and Pastor Kiera like like to dream, like to set the pace.
Is’n’t amazing when you are a part of a community that doesn’t just hope big but moves big what it can activate? Nepthy and I are starting to really believe for some things. Some big things. We move as if, As if God is already moving. As if He is moving.

And now we’re being called into it. As Nephty and I step into this vision become carriers of this vision, its like a gear shift for Nephty and I. We begin to ask for bigger things, We don’t ask the same way.

You have not because you haven’t asked. James 4:2.
God wants us to ask. He wants us to ask. He loves it when we ask.

As Pastor Adam said,

Vision has nothing to do with our ability to see.
Our future is being framed
by what we speak.

So this week I’m speaking, I’m not going to keep entertaining and massaging old thoughts, defeated thoughts. relying on what I’ve seen the lack of options how unlikely or future tripping based on the gap I’ve been in. If I rely on sight, than the situation is bleak. God doesn’t speak with limitations in mind. I need to rely on what God has spoken to me. Isn’t that so much like God?

Because the Kingdom is hidden.
He wants us to seek, to lean in.
He wants me to rely on what He has spoken rather than what I see.

I need to stop speaking lack and obstacles.
So I begin to ask, we begin to ask. Nephty and I are vocalizing big things,

What if our future is shaped by the level of our ask? - Pastor Adam

We are framing are future and we are asking. We are taking our asks higher.

We are asking for a home a new Job for me,
and for coming out of debt next year. coming out of our big old debt and student loan debt.
We are asking for him to really activate our ministry, our call together.

As we ask, God builds out our faith. God wants us to go from Faith to faith and from Glory to Glory…

And I love asking because it takes the lid off what looks possible. In my own imagination and my own reasoning I don’t have the way I don’t see the way. In fact a way that actually looks elevated and right doesn’t seem even possible.

But God’s favorite intersection is the impossible. God’s favorite place to move and to show up is in the impossible. When we speak we don’t have to know how, we don't have to know the order. But it puts back on God what he has spoken to us. But God knows how to unstack things. He knows how to bring the better version forward.

God we may not see it but you do, God we may not have it but you do. You have what we need.
You are preparing us. You are helping us stand. We may not see it.

It could be better than you think

Even Nephty, He is my substance of faith manifested. How he came into my world when I was In my most pathetic place. I was in the wait, for a long time. I had thought I had so many almosts with guys and very messy relationships. God kept telling me that my man was coming, and I had people speak words over me.

I was in a year with the most disappointments I’ve ever had with having hope for a husband and being let down, being left. So many times of “back to square one—”. but that year I started to write things down. I asked God what he saw, what he wanted. I sought God and things were named, little things that would be precious. Character attributes I never imagined I could really have in someone. There were many “Wouldn’t that be amazing?” with just this little bit of faith. I had my girls, my fierce believing friends rally around me. Remind me. But I kept asking, asking God in the disappointment. Telling God in the static season, telling him what he had told me. Stirring up my faith.

And right when I was at my most empty, This man who I knew who I worked with who I kept talking to and confiding to and even venting to, This man appeared who was already there. Who was waiting and seeking me and always in the background, in my corner. He started to step up. He started to be my covering. I realized it was Him, it was a man who already felt like my partner, like my companion. And I realized we worked, and he was the one I could be myself with. He was my lighthouse and I was his lighthouse. And I fell in love with Nephty.

I see it now. We can’t rely on sight. We have to rely on what God spoke. And when we speak it something activates it.

All i’m saying, Is God really hears you. And you don’t have to be in the perfect place or strong or even believing all the way. but if you can believe a little and if you can keep telling God what he has told you. If you can go back to what he said, you never know how he will move things around. How he will cut things off that are actually taking you back to the way to what you really want.

You never know what may be hidden near you. For me now I have to pinch myself sometimes, because Nephty is everything I barely thought was possible and more. He is sold and for me and we know how to rally together.

Now God is activating us together to bigger things. He’s helping us frame dreams that were once dead or inconceivable that are coming back. He is taking us from glory to glory and from faith to faith.