Last Sunday we had an amazing morning of worship at church. After the second service God sent a friend of mine as a messenger. He walked up to me and said I don't know why I am telling you this but God told me to tell you to speak up. I didn't really know what to say to that. How would those words end up playing themselves out? I truly felt those words were God lead so I have been looking for when they would apply. Sunday evening I got the chance to talk with one of my squadmates Becca Price. I think started there with both of us speaking into each other's lives. Today I was sitting at Starbucks and had some of my bracelets sitting on the table and girl walked by and noticed them on the table. I am not the greatest salesman so normally I would not have spoken up. Then what my friend said to popped into my head. So I started talking to her and telling her why I was selling the bracelets. She didn't have money on her so she went to her car to get some. She bought 5. That was a blessing but that was only the start. She sat down and we talked for a few minutes. That was when she spoke into my life. She told it was great what I was doing and that we are giving everything we need when we are saved and we access all the comes with that by getting into God's word. I admittely have not been reading the bible as much as I need to. After she got up I got my bible out and turned to Ephesians 4 that is part of a bible study I am in with some squadmates. It truly confirmed everything that she had said. And I was able to take in the scripture in a way that I have not been able to in a while. Since she was already gone I did not get the chance to thank her for speaking into my life. While we were talking she told me where she worked, which is near Starbucks. Under normal circumstances I would not have gone over there but I decided to be bold since I knew it was God lead. When I got there I did not see her. So I went back out to my car and and got a piece of paper and wrote to her thanking her for being God's messenger to me today. That even though she only said such a few short words that had truly spoken into my life. I went back inside and told someone working there how she had spoken into my life and would she please give it to her. Anyone that knows me that this is not something I would normally do. I normally would just think how would someone take something like that, but like I said in God had used a friend to tell me to speak up. Know one knows what will come from this. I know what came from it for me. I learned to be bold and speak up. The bigger thing I learned was that once you speak up it is even more important to see back wait and listen. When you do that you allow somoene else to Speak Up and pour into your life. Praise God for that.
