Consistent Faith – The Faith Travels

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 this 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.

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Consistency Is Key

HI Faith Travelers!

How many times have you heard the phrases “Consistency is key”, “Consistent actions create consistent results”, or even “Success isn’t about greatness, it’s about consistency”. Well all of these quotes aren’t just true in the world and business but they can also be applied biblically.

Consistency is Key!

Consistency can be defined as the quality of always behaving or performing in a similar way, or of always happening in a similar way. When I hear this definition, it makes me think of the most consistent person in my life, Jesus Christ. In Hebrews 13:8, the bible states, ” Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever”. He is consistent with His love and faithfulness seated at the right hand of the Father. He was consistent in His compassion and power as He walked this earth over 2000 years ago. And He is consistent in His character and stance as He never compromised God’s word even when His own life was at stake. Jesus is consistent because of the unchangeable name of God. It’s just like the bible says in Numbers 23:19, God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good. Basically, if God promised it, He will do it because He’s consistent.

We all know that God being consistent is a given. But our relationship with Him isn’t just about His consistency, it’s about ours. Its about our consistent faith (Mark 11:22 AMP), our consistent prayer (I Thessalonians 5:17 NLT), our consistent obedience, our consistent trust, our consistent time in His presence… our consistency period. Our relationship with God is a two way street, meaning even after we have talked to God in prayer, we should listen just as long as we pray to hear what the Lord has to say in response. Prayer is not a monologue, it’s a dialogue/conversation.

Our consistency with God nurtures the very relationship that orders our steps to and through purpose. It builds trust not just for us towards God but for God towards us. When dealing with trial after trial with my health several years ago (See Blog Post Here), I didn’t know God for myself nor how to hear His voice but I consistently cried out to Him, read His word and prayed as much as I knew how because “something told me”, which I now know that something is the Holy Spirit, that it was going to be okay and just keep praying. Soon enough I unexpectedly yet expectantly received the answers to my prayers and the healing to my body because I consistently prayed, consistently spent time with God and consistently stood in faith. Not only did my consistency build my trust in God which, in turn, strengthened my faith but it also showed God that He can trust me too when it comes to divine assignments He leads me to do concerning His children(all of you), for His glory.

It’s December 1st and some of you are wondering what’s next for you before this year ends. Just because there are 31 days left in this year, doesn’t mean God can’t do something profound in your life through your next 31 days of consistency. So I challenge you to allow God to wow you in the midst of your consistency in seeking Him, consistency in prayer, consistency in faith, consistency in discipline, in writing that book, applying for that job, starting that business and LLC, and consistency in obedience of doing what God is leading you to do in this last month of 2023. Pick up those projects you thought had died, take the steps of consistency with God and watch yourself finish the year stronger than you could have ever imagined.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us
Ephesians 3:20 NIV

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