Hey loves!
Quick post tonight!
Sorry… I know its been awhile since I posted but I kinda took a little bit of a social media break while on my 21 days of fasting. Well, we are winding up this fasting at the end of this week, so it’s time to get back to the grind! Thank you for sticking with me 🙂
I was scrolling through my instagram and an old Ricky Dillard song popped up. The song “Great Things” really had me reflecting. The lyrics are so simple yet so powerful:
God has so many great things in store for me
Can’t you see, many great things in store for me
Eyes have not seen, nor ears heard
Great things, great things in store for me
I’ll trust His word, and believe
Great things, great things in store for me
The one part of the song that stuck out to me was the lyric, ” I’ll trust HIs word and believe…” That’s one thing I often have trouble doing. I like to believe I have crazy faith… but in reality, it’s more like “Hail Mary” faith : faith because I’ve already run out of options…. so why not trust and believe??? ( smh)
That’s not the type of faith I’m walking through 2019 with. I want to journey through this year with faith being my ONLY option.
Now I don’t know about you but for the last couple of years I’ve been hearing, ” This is your year!”, and after the past 5 years that I’ve had chiiiillllleeeeee …. forgive me for rolling my eyes when I hear this. Now 2018 wasn’t a HORRIBLE year but it definitely wouldn’t have qualified as “my year”… until the last 2 weeks of the year. In my previous post I spoke about 2018 being my “refining” year, but in the last two weeks God truly showed me that not only was He listening to my prayers , He was doing His best to make sure I was prepared for what I had been praying for.
Oftentimes we pray for things that we are in no position to receive! In order to receive “great things” you need to get yourself to a “great place” mentally, emotionally, physically and most importantly SPIRITUALLY!
One thing I’ve learned is that God will never give you anything you aren’t prepared for…
Romans 8:28 says; (NKJV)
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose
Everything that you have ever wanted or desired for yourself absolutely pales in comparison to what God has in store for you… if you’ll just step out in crazy faith and trust Him… and His TIMING!
What is really helping me activate my faith this year is digging even deeper into God’s word and resting in knowing that His promises are true!
Jeremiah 29:11-12 (NKJV)
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you
1 Corinthians 2:9 (NLT)
9 That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”[a]
I’m anxiously awaiting the great things that God has in store for me!
I think I’m QUITE overdo! 😉 ❤
Til next time,
xoxo
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