{"id":3746,"date":"2016-08-26T23:13:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T23:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worshipdanceministries.com\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2016-08-27T04:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T04:44:31","slug":"are-you-capable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worshipdanceministries.com\/2016\/08\/26\/are-you-capable\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you capable?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Do you see yourself as\u00a0capable?<\/p>\n
How confident are you that you can complete the\u00a0tasks you believe God has given you?<\/p>\n
What do you tell yourself about yourself?<\/p>\n
As worship dancers, our confidence is so often under attack. We often question our sense of call and whether we are worthy of the assignments we feel called to.<\/p>\n
God cares very much about how we see ourselves. What He wants from us and for us is often different and always better than what we believe or deserve.<\/p>\n
In this post, I’m going to share about a phrase from the bible\u00a0that challenged me to change the way I think and speak about myself. I’ve got a gift for you\u00a0in the post as well.<\/p>\n
I’ve been using a French bible for my devotions this year.\u00a0Dance and
\nFrench are my favorite languages. Reading scripture in French slows me down and causes words and phrases to jump out at me in new ways. That happened this week.<\/p>\n
You are probably\u00a0familiar with the story of the twelve spies that Moses sent\u00a0to explore the land of Canaan in order\u00a0to bring back a report to the Israelites about the land the LORD had promised them. Ten come back with tales of distress. They report\u00a0that the land may be fruitful, but its inhabitants are large and threatening, too much for the Israelites to conquer. Two return full of hope and promise. One of them, Caleb, says, “Let’s go conquer the land,” (“Allons-y, faisons la conqu\u00eate de ce pays.”)<\/p>\n
It was his next words that\u00a0jumped off the page and smacked me in the face. They read,\u00a0\u201ccar nous en sommes vraiment capables.<\/strong>\u201d You don’t have to speak french to recognize the word capable. The phrase\u00a0translates,\u00a0\u201cfor\u00a0we are truly capable<\/strong> of it.\u201d (emphasis mine)<\/i>. This was the report that pleased the Lord. They believed they were capable of taking what He had given them. They believed they were capable<\/i>.<\/p>\n These words smacked me on the face because they are so rarely mine. I identify too readily with the ten spies. I identify with the ones who saw the obstacles, who were most mindful of their own weakness, and who assessed the situation by what they knew of the circumstances and their own limits. I have too often seen this as being realistic, <\/i>being practical, <\/i>even being humble<\/i>. I imagine that is just how the ten saw the situation.<\/p>\n They couldn’t believe that God’s plan for them was as good as it was, so they focused on their own weaknesses.<\/p>\n