Do you ever wonder if God is listening

Wow!  Another really exciting thing happened this morning after I had talked to my friend on the phone.  Before she called I was right in the middle of reading "My Utmost For His Highest" for the day, March 28.

What we had discussed was how it seems as though God is really stretching our faith walk and desiring that "WE" let go of  handling situations and trust Him to be our "all in all and that no matter how overwhelming any situation is to us, He is our source, not us.  We can depend on Him to get us through any circumstance.  We just need to trust Him.  We seem to be going through situations that are beyond our capacity to handle and take care of ourselves.  We commented that it's like Jesus is saying to us like He did Peter, "Come" don't be fearful when you see the storm and giant waves, stay focused on Him (Jesus) and truly we, like Peter (as a man), walked on the water.  He wants our faith to get to that level. Like no matter how big or overwhelming any situation is, we can keep our eyes on the Lord, not the circumstances, and be like Peter.  The Lord wants us to walk in a level of faith equivalent to that and beyond I believe.  Come on!  Let's get out of the boat and walk to our Savior.

Now, this is the most awesome part!  After my friend and I had prayed that God would continue to put us in situations so we could stretch our faith to "walk on water", we thanked Him for every  overwhelming situation we had been through and were going through up until today and then we hung up.  I went back to "My Utmost For His Highest" to finish my reading.  My eyes fell to these exact words.  "Faithfulness to Jesus means that I must step out even when and where I can't see anything (and the reference was Mt. 14:29)  Go read that and get your faith built up.  On top of that, I went to my computer to look up something and somehow got sidetracked and saw a "burn folder" on my desktop so I clicked on it to see what was in the folder.   It had 15-20 mp3 files so I just made a "wild guess" and  I clicked on the 8th one, just to see what in that particular folder.  Guess what?  It was a song about trusting God no matter what and that we would never be in any situation alone, He would be with us.  Coincidence!  Shoot no.  God was telling me that He listens to what we say and He loves us so much that He sets up things to confirm to us "we are on track"  and He agrees with what we talked about.  I don't know about you but I am getting blown away by seeing God almost bending over backwards to let us know how special we are to Him and how much He loves us.  What an amazing God we have.  His love is beyond any measurable amount I've ever know.  Thank you Lord.