I am always amazed at how I can see things coming into place realizing God is in it. How he maneuvers varying parts. That doesn’t happen for me easily. I am the type that really needs an “in your face” approach. And so it is… today I am smiling at the possibilities that I can only imagine but that He has already planned for me. What a feeling and it will take work!
Tuesday night was group night with my church ladies and we are discussing “Joy.” A lesson shared at the woman’s conference weeks back. However, tonight no one could make it for various reasons except one. She showed up late and like girlfriends, we start conversing about different topics, catching up and minutes turn to hours. We’ve shared the loss of our moms and that season in our lives, stories of our moms and it was beautiful. She is beautiful and I feel blessed by her.
As we move to another room and I share some of my unpublished work with her, she is laughing out loud, which amuses me. Then she is crying with her hand to her heart. She tells me how I captivate her with my words. I am humbled and take joy at the same time knowing I have this book in me that I need to continue or begin all over again to write. After hours of talking and sharing, she makes me promise her to complete my development plan at work. She tells me to write about my life and each season God has brought me through and while that feels uncomfortable to me, there may be truth in her words. We say good-bye in the morning hour which is nothing of what I expected for this night, I am feeling joy. God is so good!
She sends me a link to “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by John C. Maxwell and tells me to check it out. When I wake a few hours later, I pray and immediately begin the lesson with my notepad for notes. As I am listening for about 30 minutes, I am realizing how I will be able to use this knowledge right now in various ways. It has been an hour and some minutes when I begin to pray again… 5 down and 16 to go on this lesson but I am good with what I’ve received. As I lay in bed, I open up my kindle app and begin to read Pastor Gray’s 9th chapter in “I’m an 8” book. Again another realization sets in about my parents and what my father has instilled in me. I start to praise God when I finish the chapter. And while I praise and am thanking God, I am led back to my Kindle. When I go in I see a book titled “The Maker’s Diet Revolution” by Jordan Rubin. I begin to read the introduction and stop. I have consumed all that I can this morning but I know God is doing something in me, he has prepped me to start my day in the world.
I have accomplished a lot this morning and walk into a wind storm at work…but it’s all good. This too shall pass and I am fully equipped. After everything is back in order, my mind is everywhere but work. I am thinking of God’s goodness and others who are in need of a kind word, wisdom, and prayer. How God is using and stretching me this season to places I feel I can add value with his truth and honestly it feels good and uncomfortable at the same time. Here we go, Lord!
Last night I am reading Jordan’s book again and get through the introduction and purchased the e-book online. I start to cry reading chapter one, I know this is an answered prayer on fasting. God is so good to me. He knows my heart like no other and he knows that I need help in this area of my life and I’ve asked for it. So he gives me this book that will not only teach me how to be healthy but will help me in ways for the Kingdom, for His glory and to intercede for others in fast- I feel breakthroughs coming. I am crying now as I write this because this is my destiny! Why he created me and I cannot believe I am here. Thank you, Lord, for bringing me here.
I am singing Tasha Cobb-Leonard- “I’m Getting Ready”
Immeasurably More 