“Go nowhere with Me.” - God
Healed Curls know that God does not call them anywhere where His protection will not follow.
Hello Curlfriends!
Seasons have come and gone, well...not so much in Texas, we have them all in a matter of one week. Pray for us! ;-b However, I do hope you are enjoying the blessings of safety and peace from wherever you're reading this post.
I thought it best to bring a reflection to you from last year that I had a difficult time setting to bloggerland, but here it finally rests. I pray it blesses and challenges you as it has me!
May 13, 2015
It was almost midyear and the rain began to fall. No, literally, the rain poured down all night from 9pm to 1am. We had been getting strong nightly storms for weeks, but this night stood out. It flooded my car, deeming it a "total loss" and I was stranded...well figuratively, at least. This was the halfway point of my plummet downhill...my mountain descent...my test of obedience.
May 20, 2015
There's an email sitting in my draft box needing to be sent. I HAVE to do this, it won't just happen to me. I HAVE to voluntarily walk into this storm, I must initiate the struggle. I have to put in my letter of resignation at my current and only job in pursuit of greater financial stability, purposeful work, and simply because God demanded that I do so.
The incubation of this act came months earlier, in March, when God called me deep upon the waters. "You can't stay here and receive what I have for you, trust Me. You're going nowhere."
May 21, 2015
NO car
NO job
He wasn't only telling me that I was presently going nowhere with the way I was living, He was also saying that if I followed Him, He was about to take me nowhere I'd ever been before. I wouldn't have any knowledge of how I got there or how to get somewhere else.
Trust test, anybody???
LITTLE SNIPPETS:
I cried...in the rental car, the restroom stall, in the shower, on the pillow...and He kept holding me. "Trust Me," He whispered.
I prayed...staring at TV, typing work emails, while smiling...and He calmed me. "I understand," He empathized.
Curl Check: What has He said? Simple. The call He gave you, answer it. Check your listening skills, and then follow the instructions. Too much of the fear we have is because we once did not move, not because we once failed. We actually have very little knowledge of what it means to go forth and fall. When fear guides us we fall without ever taking one step. Move, child of God! He said it, now go. If you have to close your eyes to fall, then CLOSE YOUR EYES, but going nowhere with Him is to fight fear and find trust. Going nowhere with Him means your fall will land you in His arms.
Some things will have to happen to you...the rain will come and you cannot stop it.
Some things will happen because of you...voluntarily leave where you are with nowhere else to go.
While in the deepness of stepping out, God kept giving me these devotionals, He was encouraging me and strengthening me. I was baffled, the scriptures would just come out of "nowhere" and lift my spirit. For weeks, it happened and helped me stay the course. Even the closest people to me did not know the pain I found myself in because He covered me in the Word. I maintained a "my mourn is not your matter" mentality, letting only a few prayer warriors in on my needs. I did not want to confuse the talk of anyone else with the voice of God in this fragile time.
Curl Check: In your fragile test, are you letting everyone in on the journey? Some things are not meant for sharing. Evaluate your circle of storm mates, too many voices can muffle your hearing the words of God.
Devotional Song: "Oceans" Hillsong United
The "nowhere" is sometimes the avoided place. God says "you've been standing somewhere and you haven’t surrendered being your own life conductor, I need you to go nowhere with Me."
The "only God could make that happen" update follows soon, so stay tuned! :-D
Until next time,
Smile, Shine, and Love, curlfriends!
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