Today, the sermon lesson was during a walk, with me and God.  Oh, and my dog.  I talk to my dog, Loki, all the time on our walks.  But sometimes, like today, I was reflecting and talking to God.  Praying and reflecting.  Loki was just my loyal side kick.

You see, I am one that believes sermons can be taught anywhere, at any time and sometimes by the oddest circumstances. Sometimes lessons are taught with just you and God working things out, being convicted or taught by the Holy Spirit, sometimes through people that you wouldn’t even think would be used to teach you, sometimes children, or moments that are powerful, like an “ah-ha” moment that changes your perspective that you didn’t even know you needed changing, or in church, the traditional way.  Possibilities of lessons in our life that we can learn from are plenty! 

Perhaps the main ingredients needed are open hearts, a willingness to learn, seeing different perspectives, and humility to know we will only reach perfection when we go home to heaven and be in His full presence.

So, in my sermon lesson today, God and I were having a conversation about expectations.

Expectation meaning in the dictionary is explained as …….

ex·pec·ta·tion

[ˌekspekˈtāSH(ə)n]

NOUN

1. a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future:

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Here I am.  20 years later.  At a place that, years back, was full of anger, confusion, sadness, anxiety and more when my child was sick and future was uncertain.

Here I am.  With a different perspective that I ever thought possible especially going through that dark place, walking through that darkness step by step, and merely surviving that season.

Here I am. Now full of hope and knowing even more that God that sustains, holds, and knows more than I could ever imagine.

Here I am.  20 years later.

A prayer of those going through a dark season.

Hi!  It's Kelly Savage and Welcome to all things HIM podcast!   

Where we take a few minutes to explore scriptures whispers, and prayers .   

**Taking the scripture as our final authority. 

**Leaning our ears to the whispers of the Holy Spirit and

**Communicating our hearts to God and being still to hear His heart through prayer. 

Let's not wait until we are within the 4 walls of the church.  Let's open our hearts for transformation that God desires in our lives. 

Let a movement begin.  A movement that is needed in our world today, more than ever.   

It starts with us and our hearts and will start naturally pour out to others, not in judgement, but in love and with His heart. 

All Things HIM is about getting real and staying real with our faith walk and building a community that encourages everyone in their Christian walk, no matter where they are.  

You ready?  I hope you join in and the movement becomes as personal to you as it is to me.   

Thank you for joining me and my hope and prayer is that your relationship with God strengthens each day and the podcast has the ability to touch your life wherever you may need it at this present time. 

~Kelly Savage

Hi!  It's Kelly Savage and Welcome to all things HIM podcast!   

Where we take a few minutes to explore scriptures whispers, and prayers. 

All Things HIM is about getting real, being real and staying real with our faith walk and building a community that encourages everyone in their Christian walk, no matter where they are. 

Todays episode is "But why God"…....... 

Do you ever get the Feeling that God is  withholding something from you?  As a whole or something in particular? 

Have you Been praying and not getting what you feel you should? Or what you think you need?  Perhaps it is the timing that you are questioning and it is taking a lot longer than you feel necessary. 

Maybe, you just want something that bad you are holding onto the faith that it will be delivered soon?  But soon doesn't seem to come? 

Thought twister. 

Could it be God protecting you?   Have you ever given that a thought?   

Here's Another thought twister. 

Maybe that through the time you are waiting for it, your heart is being made ready or being tweaked and the very thing you are looking for so desperately doesn't seem to feel the same or you realize you don't need it.   

OR Do you just want to stomp your foot and say "but why"? Or the ole 'why me?" 

So, we are going to explore that for just a moment but I do want to present the best suggestion there is........you explore it WITH GOD, asking Him questions, looking for answers and leaning on Him to give you the answers.   

But here is a little insight of what I know and have experienced myself. 

Be prepared to wait, be still, and start with surrendering what your thoughts are on the subject to the one who Knows everything about what you are looking for and every nook and cranny along the way.....

Hi!  It's Kelly Savage and Welcome to all things HIM podcast!   

Where we take a few minutes each day to explore scriptures whispers, and prayers. 

All Things HIM is about getting real, being real and staying real with our faith walk and building a community that encourages everyone in their Christian walk, no matter where they are. 

Thank you for joining.  

Today, I want to pray.  But not before I tell you about the whisper I got.

This podcast is about the scriptures that are truth and help guide us, whispers that we hear from the Holy Spirit and prayers that we give with a surrendering heart to the one who loves us like no other. 

The last few weeks have been rough for me.  Not only with the medical condition that I have had to endure for almost a year now, but getting quite sick right before my vacation that kicked my butt for a bit which I am not quite used to something affecting me enough to make me lie down for days. 

But enough about me.  I say the last few weeks were rough, due to 6 or more people that I know very personally that have been very sick, hospitalizations, and it seemed like most I knew are going through some pretty trying times. 

The whisper I got was "pray".  For anyone who knows me, I believe in the power of prayer. Always have throughout my life and the passion of prayer has never died. God hearing our prayers and working through them is one element I live by along with faith, hope and love. 

So when the whisper to pray came, that was no big shock.  The shocker was that I realized I haven't been releasing it to God or surrendering things like I have going on and people I know.  Apparently, I thought somewhere along the way that I am in control or should be and should do this alone. 

We do have choices.  All the time we have choices.  But even surrendering our choices let along our struggles and prayer requests are what our Heavenly Father wants us to do.  Not so He can be controlling.  Ultimately, God always gives us the choice to do things or not do things, even when he speaks to us in our hearts and through His word.   

Still, in the end, we have the choice to obey, surrender, turn away, or shut him out or leave Him in. 

So, after asking for forgiveness for thinking I should just handle everything and shut Him out, and then hesitating again (come on, have you ever done that with Him?).  Remember, this whole podcast is about getting real and staying real with our Christian walk.  

So, after I recognized that I needed to ask for forgiveness and received that forgiveness, I still hesitated!  And then some more.  Why?  I really don't know!   

But when I leaned in and chose HIM, things changed.  

Prayer changes things.  Come and listen to realness in my life and a prayer for all of you.

What will you choose today?