Starting Anew

Hi Faith Travelers!

If there is one thing that I have learned in my walk with God, it’s that you have to Keep Listening. We should never take a piece of the puzzle that God gives us and assume that is the full picture. After all, if He gave us the full picture all at once, we probably wouldn’t do it in the first place. Everything God does is always bigger than us, requiring full dependence on His strength and His ways versus our own (See Isaiah 55:9).

Take this faith blog for instance, the Lord gave me the idea back in 2015. I officially started in 2020 and there have been different rhythms of blogging based on how the Lord has led me. There was a time where it was 1-2 posts a year, a time when the posts were weekly, a time when they ceased or were very sporadic and then monthly. Transparently speaking, there was a moment when I wanted to add my own aesthetic regarding the website and the day of the week the blog was posted (good thing but not a God thing) and that worked for a good while (i.e. Faith Fridays). But now God is doing a New Thing (See Isaiah 43:19) and if I try to stick to an aesthetic, I could miss God; who He wants to reach, when He wants to reach them and How He wants to reach them through this blog. I recently realized that by only posting on a specific day, I was pigeon holding the move of God as well as adding undue pressure to myself to get something done on a day that God didn’t even directly tell me to post on. We have to be mindful of allowing our own intellect to take charge or dictate our direction in doing the God things. So here we, right smack dab in the middle of the “New Thing”, moving with God fully on how He wants to do things as you are receiving this post on a Big Ole Tuesday on the last day of March and I am ok with that.

Over this past month, I’d encountered a series of undesired events, one being surgery. This led to me being off work for a few weeks. My first thought immediately went to “now that I am off work, I can work on my God projects and get more things done before the hustle and bustle starts back”. Well God had other plans! He told me to REST! While most people would jump to that rest opportunity; given the amount of work things, business things and, most importantly, God Things on my plate, I felt I didn’t have time to rest. Who says they don’t have time to rest after surgery, you guessed it….Me! Even in my prayer time as I sat with the Lord recognizing there was chaos going on around the world, I went into intercession mode and the Lord stopped me. Yes, He literally stopped me from praying. He told me “I don’t need your prayers right now, I just want you to sit with ME.” It was in that very moment that I realized I was so used to being on the front lines as a prayer warrior, a server of my community and an overall get it done type person, that I realized I didn’t know how to just rest and be God’s daughter.

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you will know that I didn’t grow up a Daddy’s girl. So not having that experience affected how I approached my relationship with the Lord in the beginning. It started out more like that of a soldier. My thoughts were, “give me my assignment Lord and I will do it”. I didn’t know any other way until God nurtured and loved on me, showing me what it was truly like to have a perfect Father. It wasn’t an overnight process and I can honestly say I am still learning but after this past month the Lord has exposed something in me that needed to not just Heal but needed to Rest (See Matthew 11:28-29).

I say all of that to say, don’t be afraid to walk in the New Thing that God is doing even when it doesn’t make natural sense. Even when it goes against all natural intellect and even when it feels wrong. We have to learn to be ok with God leading and guiding every moment of our Faith journey because being aligned with the Lord is the best and the safest place to be. So embrace the new and start anew in the God thing journey that He has in store for you.

Until the next Faith Message…

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