This morning I (Janet) had a wee appointment for my finger 👍 I hurt it last August and I’ve finally got it out of the splint and hopefully well on the way to being healed up 🙌🥳 And at the minute Neil is in a meeting about potentially taking on the head coach role at our son’s football team. While we don’t necessarily feel we have a word from the Lord about him stepping into this, I guess it feels like we might have a ‘leading’ from God about it if that makes sense?

At different times throughout our life together, Neil & I have felt like God’s hands are on our backs and as we walk, He gently guides and directs the way we’re walking – and this kind of feels like one of those times ❤️ Neil coaching the boys in the team has been such a joy to him over the last 18 months, and we think for him to take on the head coach role might make sense of both who he is, and of what God is calling us to in The One Hundred Years Project too 😃 We’re taking little steps to see if the Lord is definitely on it 😃👍

When I got home from my appointment and Neil was out, I felt like the Lord was inviting me to spend a little time reading over some old prophetic words that we’ve received over the years. I had worship music playing as I was reading and I really had a wonderful time in God’s presence ❤️🙌 It was amazing to me as I read, to realise how many times over the years (not just recently when we began to ask specifically about what we’re doing now!) that God has spoken the same sorts of things over us 😃 It’s very exciting!!

Side note…haha, Neil’s just come home from his meeting and he has said YES to taking on the head coach role 🥳😃 Tee hee – the ‘little’ steps just turned into a jump 🥳🎉

Back to my time with Jesus this morning 😃 As I was reading through the words, I had been thinking about finances, and I suddenly felt a real sense of the Holy Spirit’s presence 🙌 I felt emboldened, and equally a bit of a weight of needing to repent of the ways we have been praying about money recently. I realised that in trying to be humble and not entitled in the ways we’re praying, we’ve actually fallen into praying with timidity! We haven’t been approaching God with bold confidence, but with a lack of understanding about who He is, and us being His children! I get that this can go either way pretty easily, and we don’t want to cross over into being entitled or demanding of God – ever!! BUT – we also don’t want to stay in timidity and miss out on knowing who He is more and more!

So I got on my knees and repented of the fear and timidity that has been leading our prayers when it comes to finances! I repented of not expecting to see the abundance of God in financial ways in our lives – both for us as a family, and for our mission that God’s called us to! And then I prayed my boldest prayer – I began to pray for money that the Lord has already released for us, but that we haven’t taken hold of yet! I reached out my hands and ‘took hold’ of all the resources of Heaven that have been put aside for us and that are ours because God has decided they are for us!

It was a really cool time in God’s presence – humbling, emboldening, and fun ❤️