Stepping out in Faith

At Church on Sunday I heard a talk about the woman in Matthew 9:20-22 who had been bleeding for 12 years until she stepped out in faith and touched Jesus' robes to get healing. At the end of the service there was time to pray and ask God if there was anything we needed to do for Him in order to step out in faith and I felt God saying He wanted me to give him an hour of my time every morning throughout this next year. Immediately thinking I was not up for that this year I tried to push it to the back of my mind and hope I'd misheard! However, I was reminded of it constantly over the next 24 hours and felt that actually it'd be really important for me to commit each day to Him afresh every morning. So, I decided I'd do it...
So far, I've managed it once and even then it wasn't quite an hour! I had a dream a friend told me to try it at least 3 times and woke up thinking "Brilliant, I'll do it 3 times and then I can stop!". However, I know that if I do it 3 times I'll start to really enjoy His presence first thing in the morning and won't want to stop! It's just planning that hour and trusting in Him to provide for me even if I feel I haven't had quite enough sleep...

I often think stepping out in faith refers to things like going abroad to do mission or moving to somewhere completely new. However, I'm really aware there are ways in which I could step out in faith daily, even if only to talk to that person standing on their own in a room.

So, today I'm praying that I will listen to the Holy Spirit's prompting and step out in faith in those small, seemingly insignificant ways and that God will use those acts of faith, by His grace, to share His love with others.