I heard another really great devotional thought this morning....already had the opportunity to share it with two people today and I pray it touched them.  It's awesome when we are given bread in the morning and realize throughout the day that others need just what we received....break that bread, right? :)  So, it was about Joshua and Jericho and how the army had to march around the city 6 times with no sign of success before GOD BROKE THE WALL DOWN after the 7th time around.  I have been laughing about that today, I mean it really would have been nice to see a little crumbling or cracking each time around, right?  HAHA....GOD is so serious about finding the faithfulness in us and I love that!  We have to be cool with looking like fools the 7 times around too, you know? :)  The world (the Jericho) will think we are absolutely insane as we follow GOD's instructions.  I'm there now in a situation....so easy for others and the voices in my head to say, "Why don't you give up on this?"....."What are you doing?"  "Why don't you just do it this way?", "This makes no sense!", "This is the hardest way possible!".....but, what if this is just my 5th time around, you know?!

When I played tennis in high school my coach would always tell me I didn't have to do anything spectacular (because I always wanted to slam the ball back at my opponent or put some kind of weird spin on it)....I just needed to outlast them....I needed to be steady and as consistent as possible.  I didn't like that because I wanted to be amazing in other ways than just steady, but in my spiritual walk I have determined this is SOOOO TRUE!  We aren't the ones with all the glorious moves, GOD IS!  However, we have to endure our enemy's attacks with our steadfast faith :)