I'm a planner by nature. Most all my life I've had a certain idea of how I was going to do things. There were things in my life that I planned the time line of events and exactly in my mind how they would play out. I'm a dreamer too.

I write down dreams, ideas and things that I know God is speaking to me. I think there are seasons where we need to patiently seek the Lord for his wisdom, for his plans and not out own. Those seasons where you just sit and wait. Seasons where you take it all in because you know God is doing something in you and you want to be ready.

There's a time and place for all that. But I don't think that God has called us to just sit on those things he's speaking to you on. He wants you to actively seek him. Put forth action to the things he's called you to.

I think there is much to be said about putting action to our faith. Stepping out in faith when things are scary and speaking things out loud that the Lord is telling us. Speaking them out loud with out fear of rejection or that someone would give us the stink eye look and tell us we're crazy.

Because here's the thing, sometimes God wants you to speak things out loud in order to confirm what he's already telling you.

A couple weeks ago I finally blurted out to a close friend all that God has been speaking to me these last few months. Telling her some big time plans the Lord was doing in my family. And you know what she said to me after I told her everything?!?

"Of coarse you are, that's such a natural fit for you and your family."

Just like that. She wasn't surprised by what I was telling her. In fact she was confirming all that God has been telling me, all that God has been doing in my heart. To my friend for me to tell her this transition my family was about to embark upon what the most natural God called thing that we could be doing.

We can't be afraid to speak things out loud that God is calling us to. We want to hold it all in because it's scary or can be overwhelming. Or sometimes we don't want to speak it out loud because we're afraid what if "it isn't God." I think God stirs in us the things that we need to speak out loud on, the things we need to step out in faith on and let him do the rest.

Speaking things out loud also makes you accountable to what God's telling you. It also allows the people that are close to you, the people God's placed in your life to agree with you in prayer about.

So ponder those things in your heart that God has laid there, but also be brave and speak them out loud and let God confirm or deny. He hasn't forgotten about your dreams, he cares about them more than you could ever know.

Andrea Worley