STOP TRIPPING, ITS COMING
Welcome back to Chasing after Zion! I pray that this post will encourage and uplift you in whatever way you need it to in your life!
At the beginning of the year its normal for people to write out their goals, make vision boards, and so forth, however I decided to write out a list of things that I was believing in God for. Everything I wrote down was dated so I could go back and see when I prayed for it, and when those things I was believing in God for manifested. I wanted to also be able to date that so I could look back on it. In December of 2017 a lot of things happened very fast, one in particular me losing my job. I was very devastated about how things happened and I was frustrated with how things were going. I was without a job for about a month which felt like five months. I applied to multiple places every day and prayed that something would come along.
Now let’s fast forward a little bit. On December 31st, I wrote down that I was believing in God for a new job with great benefits. On January 7, 2018 two different jobs called me in for an interview and on January 17, 2018 I accepted one of the jobs offers and two days after I began training, and that’s just the beginning. Along with a new job I also wrote down a new apartment, and I got approved for my own apartment on February 27, 2018.
I’m simply saying all of this to say that God is always going before us and opening doors and aligning things up in the way that they should go (not our timing, but His). Though things began to change and turn around, before that it was rough. I was saying that I was believing in God for these things but deep down I still had some reservations about those things coming to pass and wasn’t one hundred percent trusting and believing that God would come through. But I’m so blessed to have a God that is still faithful to us when we are not to Him!!!!
One morning I stumbled across a sermon by Pastor Tim Ross which spoke to me on a whole different level, and that’s when something on the inside of me clicked. The sermon was literally for me and it came right on time, and the message was simple but very powerful. Everything that happens in your life is purposeful, God wastes nothing, and when you are going through situations you have to learn how to go to a higher place. When you go up to a higher place it becomes easier for you to hear God’s voice, you learn how to block out the negativity, you begin to speak life into any and every situation, your mindset changes, and your faith becomes active and increases. So, I’m telling you that God is still faithful even when you don’t see how things will work out, but you have to truly trust and believe with everything in you. After watching that sermon, I prayed hard and I told God I trusted Him, and this time I meant it with everything in my body. And when I did that, God started turning things around for me, just like He will do for you. Be Blessed Everyone! #MileSix
Habakkuk 2:1-4 (KJV)
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
*To check out this sermon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu_q0sHmhSY
“Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength”