I must start off by saying how excited I am EVERY morning to come and share God's goodness with you. I never know where to start or what he has planned for us until I PRAY and ask him to guide us.
For those of you who don't know me and my current situation I'd like to share a little bit of that with you today so that you know what I’m going through. I was recently laid-off from my job, then they brought me back on and long story short that didn't work out either. I realize now that I wasn't fully allowing God to guide my steps. I would pray about something and I would think it was God answering, but it was really me doing what I thought God would want me to do. As I said in my first post I was at my breaking point and I needed something to change. I wanted to escape that feeling of emptiness and I wanted that numbing feeling to go away. That's when God led me to his plan and purpose for me, which was creating this blog!! :) All week I’ve been so wrapped up in getting things together for this blog and praying with my mom that I honestly forgot that I didn't have a job. lol! I wasn't worried about our finances, I wasn't worried about anything except reaching out and lighting a fire in someone else like the fire God lit in me.
Last night I come home and I'm just drained. Ready to relax with my husband and ready to hit the sack because I knew today was going to be a long day. My husband began to ask me how my job search was going and I could tell he was stressing a little, so I asked him. "Are you stressing about our finances?" and he said that he is always stressing about our finances. He said he didn't understand why it's been so hard for me to find a job. At that very moment my heart sank and I felt convicted for focusing more on this blog than I was looking for a job. He went to bed and I stayed up to apply for some jobs online and then God called, well it was my mom, but God spoke to me through her. She could hear it in my voice that I was exhausted and stressed and she said "God wanted me to tell you that this blog is your JOB! If you were working right now you wouldn't be able to do any of the things you’re doing and God knew that. He has a plan and you just have to trust him." That made me feel so much better! I prayed and asked God to help me understand all of this and he said "Work unto me (The Lord) and I'll take care of the rest." He reminded me that this is his plan for me. I have to trust him. Some who aren't as far in their walk with God as you aren't don't live by faith, they live by sight. God wants us to live by faith! Trust him! When he brings us out of the storm he wants us to say "That was only God!" Because it was only God!! My husband is not as far in his walk with God as I am. At this time he is claiming to be an unbeliever, but God told me to speak things into existence so I do not claim that for him. I claim that he will become a man of God, who lives by FAITH and not by sight. I pray he will lead our family to grow closer to God and that he will seek the Lord and find him.
After hearing from God and literally feeling a weight lifted off my shoulders I was excited to share that story with you! Then something even better happened, Brandy called me and told me that she had posted on the blog, (it was 10:30 at night) and that she was sorry it took so long, but she’d had a hectic day. I began to tell her about what God had just revealed to me and she laughed and said “Well I guess God wanted me to do my study late tonight, post on the blog and then call to tell you because my blog is just about that, TRUSTING God and his plan for you!” God is good ALL the time!
Ladies, please turn your hope to God! Trust in him and his promises for you (if you don’t know his promises for you study his word and ask him) and the plans that he has for your life! He has a plan and a purpose for ALL of us! He is so awesome that those plans were laid out like a blueprint before he ever even created us! God does not want us to move (act on a situation) until he tells us to and until he shows us how to handle it.
David said “Not one person who waits for you will be disgraced; those who act treacherously without cause will be disgraced…” That’s because they were moving before God told them to! They were following their own plan, and our own plans NEVER work! Like Brandy said, God laughs at our plans! He already knows the outcome if we don’t choose his plans for our lives! Choose to let God guide your every step and every move and you will NOT be disgraced!Ask God to make his ways known to you so that you know what he wants you to do! You have to pray and ask God for direction. Cry out to him and tell him that you want him to guide your steps! You can’t face this battle alone. David told God that he would wait ALL DAY LONG for him to answer. Sometimes God doesn’t answer right away. It’s not in our time, it’s in his time. Other times he does and we are so busy listening to self and satisfying self that we miss out on what he has to say. God speaks to you! It’s a soft whisper and you will know it’s him. Someone asked me how I know it’s God and not me talking to myself and I said “Because the answers I’m getting aren’t answers I would give myself.” Some say it’s their conscious, but God is our conscious! He is the only thing inside of us telling us what’s right from wrong. If you haven’t experienced this, pray and ask God to speak to you. He will, you just have to listen long enough! J
Allow God to guide your steps. Give him the reigns and sit back and enjoy the ride. It will be a weight lifted off your shoulders and we all know that worrying takes up too much time. Trust God and the plans he has for you!
Do you know what your God given purpose is? God put us all here on this beautiful earth, it’s beautiful because he created it, to give us the OPPORTUNITY to change HIS world. It’s a blessing and an honor that he trusts us so much when we disappoint him constantly. He trusts the ones who don’t trust him to have an impact on HIS world! Isn’t that crazy?! Lord you are so good to us and we are not even close to being worthy of your mercy and love. Thank you for that!**Praise Report**
God put it on my heart to reach out and get funding for the Weekend to Remember conference. I called them directly yesterday and they gave me some great news, the cost is only $159 per couple instead of $159 per person! Isn’t God so awesome!! YAY!!How many of you took God up on his challenge yesterday? Please share your praise report with us by commenting on the blogs!! J
I know I promised that these all wouldn’t be this long, but when God’s speaking through me I’m not going to stop writing! J Just like you ladies need words of encouragement and need to be lifted up so do Brandy and I. Please keep encouraging us with your comments and make sure to read her post below! It’s powerful!! ;)
Stay encouraged, inspired and motivated today and help someone else do the same! :)Raynisia Nagel
A Woman After God's Own Heart
MAN, like you said I absolutely LOVE being inspired and writing these blogs but it's nice to be uplifted myself and my friend, you've definitely done that today. Thank you so much to being devoted to God and his word every morning so that you can share with us and lift our days! You are truly a blessing.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Brandy! God is so powerful!! The devil try to make me stress this morning because I wasn't sure what God wanted me to speak on, but I said I trust you lord and turned the page in my Bible and there it was. :)
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