I left a lot of mess in April. That mess is turning into the message of May. See I was reminded from a friend last night how much the enemy is after our destiny, how much the enemy wants nothing more than for us to not walk in the calling that God has for our lives. There is a shift in the atmosphere, a season change coming....
April was a time of learning what bridges need to be burned, and which ones were meant to be crossed. (Yep love that song...). April was the time where the choice was circle the mountain again or realize the strength to get up and over was mine for the taking. Done with circling the mountain, oh how I never expected the TimeHop app to bring conviction, but it did. Looking at posts from over the years and finding the same things for April for the last four years...time for change. This circling the mountain was only wearing me out and wearing me down(which was what the enemy wanted).
The enemy wants you to focus on the mess, but God wants you to see the message He is writing. I have seen God write a Romans 8:28 story just for me. It's a story I continue to reap from today because it brought into my life precious, precious friends who are like my family now. Friends that had they not come into my life, my life would have certainly not been the same. When God brings people into your life, some are for a reason, some for a season. I'm so thankful these friends are for life and for a reason! How is it a Romans 8:28 story? Well you see these friends came into my life because of one of the darkest days, losing my sister. God took something that I couldn't see how good was going to come of it, but He knew even then. I am forever thankful and grateful for my Romans 8:28 story and my friends that sow into my life daily. God gets the glory for turning messes into messages when we let Him. It's our choice if we keep the message to ourselves, or if we choose to share it as much as we can. Our mess becomes our message when we let God use it for His glory instead of stuffing it inside and letting the enemy win. Chains are broken when we let God change the mess into a message. The focus turns to what God is doing(or has done) instead of what the enemy is doing.
April was a season of refinement, a season of bring things up to the surface that I had stuffed or put a band-aid on. I'm not perfect and most days I tend to wear the less perfect me, the pitiful one for others to see instead of the powerful one that some get to see. Sometimes it is easier to let others see the stress and worry than the victory when it comes....that shouldn't be. We need to let others see the victory more or at least as much as the other side. In teaching, we call it productive struggle. God's been letting me struggle for some months now, because He knew it was productive. He knew that the end result would be broken chains and a mess left in the hands of the Maker. The process was needed in order to make me into more of who He made me to be. Thank you Lord for knowing what was best, even though I know I repeatedly asked for the mess to be removed. God doesn't always change the circumstances as much as He changes us. We may see it as a prayer unanswered, when all the while God is giving us the desires of our heart and answering prayers we didn't even know we needed to pray.
I'll write a detailed blog soon. God's been breaking chains, chains that until just a few weeks ago I thought they were already broken. When in fact, I had excused the chains...made a case for why they were there instead of trusting the One who could not only break them, but could take them away. As children of God, the chains are ours for the breaking. We are the ones that allow them to stay on by not realizing the power He has given us as sons and daughters of the Most High.
Ask Him for revelation today. Trust that He knows your heart, but more than that He knows the destiny He has planned for your life. He knows what you don't and sees what you cannot. Trust is sometimes a moment by moment choice. There will be moments when you let feelings take over, that's where grace steps in. Realize it, deal with it, and move forward. Feelings will always be an issue if you don't let truth speak first.
The moments where you stumble and fall are also the moments where you get to experience the hand outstretched of grace helping you back to your feet to keep moving forward on this journey we call life. He planned for you to live it abundantly and that means free! Deal with the chains of the past, the stumbles of the present, so you can walk confidently into the destiny He planned even before you took your first breath. That's how much He loves you!
Have a great week!
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