Blown Fear

This pass weekend I attended a Women's Conference at Solid Rock Christian Center International in Huntsville, AL (Great thanks to Apostle Phyllis and her leaders) but while I was there a speaker shared her testimony. It was truly powerful but in her wrapping up she passed out balloons. She explain that the balloon represents your faith. At the time that she gave us balloons that were not inflated. She gave us instructions to blow up the balloon until it burst. If you know any thing about a balloon busting on  while you are blowing it, it can hurt if it burst in your face. So as the speaker continued to encourage us I started to blow up my balloon. As I looked around I saw people's balloons getting bigger and bigger. My sister who was standing next to me, had a huge balloon. I looked at her balloon and then I looked at mine, thinking to myself, we must not have the same balloon because mines is not getting that big, but as I looked at others blow their balloons, theirs look similar to my sisters than mine. (Side bar: isn't like us to look at others faith and compare it to ours, and give the excuse that they must not have the same thing that we do?)... Continue... SO as I looked at my balloon holding it while hearing the bursting of balloons around I started to think.... Daddy I can't do this... If this balloon burst in my face it's going to hurt or I am swallow the rubber or something is going to be uncomfortable. I was in a place of trepidation, holding my faith in my hand. My balloon was smaller than my sisters and others around me. I stood there saying Daddy it's going to hurt, Daddy it's going to hurt. While saying this the speaker said to the audience, if you burst your balloon you will blow your fear and  expand your faith. As I heard that I begin to say Daddy I trust you... I stretch the balloon and blew. The balloon begin to grow, I stretch it some more and it grew bigger. As I stood there blowing my fears away, I turn my head away from everyone else and continue to blow with all my might as the speaker continue to encourage us to keep blowing. Then I hear the Holy Spirit say if your trust Daddy and burst this balloon your fears will be blown away and your faith will be expanded. With one last breath and a made up mind to trust Daddy I blew with all my might. The balloon burst into pieces leaving me nothing but the part  of the balloon I put my mouth on.  As I saw the evidence of my faith expand, the sound of my fears being destroyed, and the victory in my mouth...( You will catch that later). I realized that I had taken the first step towards healing.

Prayer: Daddy thank you for teaching me how to blow my fear away with my faith. Daddy I understand that being in a place of trusting you in a world that is filled with all kinds of issues is hard, but the process of faith is in you. Daddy thank you for letting us  know that you will expand our faith if we just let go of our cautiousness and be reminded of your promises. In JESUS Name. AMEN!