James Edward

The Book of You James Edward

This is your story of your interactions with God. I'm encouraging you to write down your daily hum drum dealings with God so that you can begin to see the pattern of how He helps and as such become confident that He will help you in the big things also. I have discovered that it is oftentimes easier to see God by looking backwards. And also we see Him in the small things easier as well, but don't despise small things because writing down little things over the course of a year you'll see at the end of the year you'll have a whole books worth of little things that add up to an whole lot. You'll see how He brought you through terrible layoff in February and how He brought you the new and better job in March. You'll see the pattern of how every time a bill was due He somehow brought you through. It may have not be the same way every time, but the case is you always made it and in the end you won't be able to deny the pattern and then you'll call out to God with expectancy and say well since He brought me through this _____________ and that ____________ and this terrible time then I'm sure He'll also bring me through _____________ (fill in the blank) as well. The pattern is the answer and that is how David was able to say: Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 1 Samuel 17:36" See David didn't just put down the PlayStation and then run up on Goliath. David had been out in the field with God going through day to day things like finding water for his sheep and caring for them when they were sick. Then he took on a lion and a bear and so by the time he came to Goliath he had total confidence that God would deliver Goliath to him also. David had history or "his story" with God. All the Bible's writers had their story with God and it's important that we have ours as well.