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Prepare Your Feet

“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’” – Isaiah 52:7 In addition to equipping our minds, hearts, and hands for action, the fourth and final thing we should do to proactively move from a place of waiting to preparation is to ready our feet. Just as Jewish worshippers cleansed their legs and feet during Mikvah as a symbolic way of asking the Lord to guide their coming and going, we should listen to His voice before we commence or stop any forward motion. When I was in college, I had a spiritual mentor teach me to pray every day, “Lord, please let me be in the right place at the right time doing the right things with the right people.” And though it seemed simple then,

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Take Action!

“In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” – James 2:17 Are you a person of action? While I know there are probably a few of you reading this who would say that you are impulsive and jump quickly to do something without thinking it through, I’m willing to bet that many of you would say that more often than not, you err on the side of caution.  You see, in my experience, people of faith tend to spend too much time thinking, pondering, and reasoning about things in their lives that really need to be changed through decisive action. Unfortunately, what frequently happens is that out of boredom, laziness, or the inability to say no to one thing in order to say yes to another, we don’t make any decision(s) at all. While there is certainly a case for contemplating and

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