You’ve got to take the first step! 

‘Be strong and of good courage and do it.’ 1 Chronicles 28:20 NKJV 

Larry Walters got tired of sitting around doing nothing. So on 2 July 1982, he rigged 45 helium-filled weather balloons to a garden chair and lifted off. Armed with an air gun to shoot out a few balloons should he fly too high, he was shocked when he quickly reached 16,000 feet, and he wasn’t the only one! Pilots reported seeing, ‘Some guy in a garden chair floating through the sky.’ Forty-five minutes later when he landed in Long Beach he was asked why he did it. He replied, ‘It was something I had to do. I just couldn’t sit there any longer.’ When the Prodigal Son finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired he said, ‘I will arise and go to my father’ (Luke 15:18 KJV). Did he have any idea how his father whose heart and whose law he’d broken would treat him? No, but he refused to sit in his pigsty another day. When Israel came to the River Jordan, God told the priests carrying the ark to step into the water and it would dry up. But nothing happened until they took that first step! There could be a song in you that’s never been sung, a sermon that’s never been preached or a gift that’s just waiting to be released. The moment you stop holding back, the doors will open, the right people will come and the resources will be provided. But you’ve got to take that first step! 

Prayer Point:

Lord, help me take the first step of a life change today. Help me identify the aspects of my life that are holding me back from my full potential and overcome them, in Jesus’ name. Nurture my walk with You, Lord, that I might grow in confidence, faith and grace. I want to be a servant of Your Kingdom in all aspects of my life. Amen.