Welcome to Stepping Stones
This is a blog entry from my first personal blog - Stepping Stones. The message I felt was worth migrating over to The Fenner Points.
Welcome to 2012. I have declared this year to be the best one yet for me spiritually. As I lay praying this morning, the Lord spoke to me the words, Stepping Stones, and impressed upon me to begin this blog. I have never blogged before and have been a slacker in writing things down that the Lord has spoken to me over the years and as a result I have quickly forgotten some important things I know He wanted me to record.
In obedience to the sweet voice that spoke the words to me this morning, Spiritual Stepping Stones has been birthed. I will attempt to share what the Lord is speaking to me. First let me explain, Stepping Stones. I made some declarations in the spirit for myself and my family for 2012 and already was under extreme attack by the enemy. You see, I have made a lot of declaration in the spirit and been determined to do a lot of things in the past but I always seemed to let the enemy push me back when he would bring these attacks. It wasn’t purposeful but somehow the attack and the problem became the focus and the determination I once had would loose its fire to the pursuit of overcoming the attack.
This morning as I was praying and under great attack, my first thought was to call a dear friend and ask her to pray for me. After all she has prayed me through a lot of things before and that is what our Christian friends are for. But, I felt the Lord say to me, “just step over it.”
What? Just step over it? I wanted to ask if He was kidding me.
I then envisioned a river much like the one I grew up as a river rat on, The mighty Dan of Stokes County. I could see stones in the river and I could see the fierce rushing of water that would knock me down if I was trying to wade in the water. Its like you are walking along peacefully, wading in the water and all the sudden you come to this big ole rock and you are aren’t sure what to do. You know the enemy placed the rock in your way and if you try to go around it there are smaller slippery rocks and other dangers like swifter water that may cause you to fall. You stand there frozen for a minute and the Lord is saying, “use the stumbling block as a stepping stone”. Just step right on up on that big ole rock and walk right over! You see, the enemy is still working for God whether he likes it or not. He placed the stone there but if we will be obedient and step out in faith, we can step right on top of what the enemy placed as a stumbling block and use it as a stepping stone.
I began to use the stumbling block as my stepping stone and became more determined than the minutes before to press on toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God on my life.
