Allowing some room for the Holy Spirit

So, it's been a couple of incredibly discouraging weeks here and sometimes I've wondered whether or not I'm doing anything lasting here...

I had some good truth spoken to me in the past couple of days via Graham Cooke (well his was spoken via a podcast sermon from Churchlands...) and via Kristin Miller (someone I love very much for her willingness to endlessly encourage and support my work here!).

And then, this morning, I was spending some time in the word and read Luke 12:1-12. Kind of a weird passage to speak to me this morning, but I got to verses 11 and 12 which read:

¹¹ “When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, ¹² for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”

And for some reason, this just spoke really loudly to me. So often, I trust in my own abilities to make things happen, but I shouldn't have to worry or defend myself and the vision that has been gifted to us at City of Refuge...instead, I should trust that the Holy Spirit will give me what to say...after all this whole thing is God's anyway! So today, for the first time in a couple of weeks, I'm at peace. I just need to continue to remember it is HIM in me that makes me strong!