DIVINE PURPOSE
GOD IS IN THE STEPS AND STOPS OF YOUR LIFE
Hello all and welcome back!
With every thing that is going on in the world right now, a lot of us have more time on our hands to reflect over our life and situations we’ve been through. I know for myself this has been one thing I’ve been doing and its all starting to make sense now.
In the past when I would go through things, I didn’t fully understand why those were my experiences, and often times I would think why me, and why is my journey a little bit harder, but I learned that God allows good things to develop slowly.
Every thing we go through is for a special purpose and plan so God will get all the glory and His will be done. So I’m here to encourage you that no matter what your life looks like or what you are going through, it will always come back around full circle. What God starts, he will finish it out to the very end.
That job you had that dealt with impatient people was teaching you patience, when you didn’t have anyone to call God was teaching you how to depend on Him, when you got fired from that job He was teaching you how to trust in Him further to provide, the rocky relationship with family, whatever it may be.
God uses all men greatly, but He prepares us greatly too. You have to be willing to endure the greatness of God’s preparation.
Stay the course! It’s turning around for you!
LIVE A LITTLE
Life is a gift. Wake up everyday and realize that.
Welcome back everybody! I know it’s been a while since my last post but I want to let you all know that I am back!
This will probably be the shortest post that I write but let’s get into it. A lot has happened which is why I have not written and I just came back from vacation, so I wanted to share what I was able to reflect on.
LIFE is too short, and we need to live it to the fullest and enjoy every aspect of it. The good, the bad, and even the ugly. We can get so consumed with worrying about things we have no control over (I am very guilty of this), worrying about the next person’s success, worrying about how this bill or that bill will get paid, or even being too focused on the future to really enjoy the NOW. We don’t take time out to really enjoy everything that has been given to us because we are consumed with everything else, when 100% of the times the things we stress over don’t matter. You only have one life to live, and it could be gone tomorrow. So, let’s challenge ourselves to live life to the fullest and enjoy all God has for us.
Let’s keep Chasing after Zion Y’all #MileSeven
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams ”
STOP TRIPPING, ITS COMING
He’s got the whole world in His hands
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”
A TURN OF EVENTS
When life gives you lemons, the best thing to do is make the best darn lemonade and put your best foot forward.
Well Well Well, Let’s get down to business. Ya girl is in a waiting season, and I must say this by far has been one of the most challenging things ever (literally). But before I explain that, let’s go back a little bit. April of 2017 rolled around and I just knew that I would be walking across the stage with my class in May getting my bachelor’s degree. I took a few senior pictures, told family and friends, and I was set on being done especially because I was ready to move on from undergrad at the illustrious Fisk University. However, nothing worked out the way I had planned on it. I found out my credits were a little off, and had 3 more classes to finish. Of course, being the perfectionist, I am, and one who likes to have control I tried to take the classes elsewhere. But the GAG is, that did not go as planned either! I felt very discouraged at the time, and became depressed because I had gotten so close to graduating and I was delayed. To be completely honest, I felt like a total FAILURE.
Now I know everything happens for a reason, and I did try to tell myself that God knows what’s best, but for once I didn’t have any answers for this nor could I fix it. I had no one to really turn to for answers either, and I was worried about what other people would say, because let’s be honest…… People will criticize and judge your situation without even knowing you or your life. I did a lot of praying and crying every day because for the life of me I couldn’t see what God was doing, and why I had to wait! I remembered a scripture that was told to me by my seventh grade teacher who became one of my mentors, ” For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not evil, to give you an expected end” Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV). This scripture gave me hope again in understanding that God wants the best for me and He will alter your plans as He sees fit. So, am I waiting on God’s best for me? I guess so! I’m in a place where God wants me to fully trust and rely on Him. So, here’s my journey……. #MileOne
““There’s no such thing as a coincidence.” ”