You weren’t meant to carry those burdens alone. Come away with me for a few minutes and sit beside me.
Share with me all you’ve been walking through, the easier parts and the hard challenges. I’m listening, or ‘all ears’, as they say. I want to hear it all, every burden and every emotion you’ve had in response.
Let the tears flow as you confide in me, let your mind and heart process it all. Now let’s put those burdens, some soul crushing even, into this box and I’ll help you close the lid tight.
Let me keep this box for you. If you do, I’ll give you a gift in its’ place. This gift contains joy, peace, comfort and relief. But in order to receive this gift I have for you, you must release the box of burdens we put together into my hands.
I long to take your burdens. I can handle them and I know exactly what to do with them, trust me. Let’s meet like this again, where you give me your burdens and I give you joy instead, sometimes greater strength, whatever you need. You are loved. – Jesus
Some achievements in our lives are measurable, like seeing the scale show us we’ve dropped a few pounds or seeing money grow in our bank account. Other achievements are not measurable and it is in those immeasurable accomplishments, such as our growth and maturity as a person and in the Lord or unity built within a body, that the eyes of God are fixed.
(Prophetic Word in Video Format)
The world sees success in what is measurable alone, and as people of faith we must remind ourselves otherwise. Jesus wants to draw you away with Him, providing yourself distance from your circumstances momentarily in order to show you what He sees about your life and the last season you’ve walked through. Many of you feel frustrated that your past season was for not because your goals, what was measurable, were not met. However, nothing goes to waste with God and He used that season to do way more significant works within you than you realize.
He’s been molding and shaping you, showing you your blindspots, surfacing your wounds in order to heal you and training you to follow Him down paths you were reluctant to venture down before. And He has seen goals placed in front of you achieved that you didn’t know were put before you. So much happens unseen.
No season is wasted for those who trust in the Lord.
The next season will show you the growth you’ve experienced when your response to similar challenges as before is wiser. Acknowledge the growth you’ve gained and the closeness with God you’re now experiencing, for that proves again how that frustrating season was not wasted.
A lot of new systems and processes have been put in place as directed by the Lord and now many are stepping into a time dedicated for those systems to be combed through and tested. The kinks will be needed to be smoothed out and God is providing grace for that to take place. Man has plans but God’s unfolding of them, and what those plans look like, will now take place.
“In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.”
Proverbs 16:9
As God gives us the desire of our hearts and as we continually abide in Him, those desires are shaped and formed into God’s intent with them. Don’t give up or lose sight when what you’ve planned requires adjustments, slight changes or maybe even an overhaul. Things have to be tested and even what we’ve thought we heard God saying will be tested as well.
It doesn’t equate to missing what God has said or failing. It just means you have been brave, taking steps of faith and trusting God will direct you. Perfectionism can also get in the way and blind us to the process He has us in.
To get us from one place to another was a response to one inspired word, and to move us in a more specific direction will come by a new inspired word. Yet, God sees it all outside of time and space and we can trust His leading.
This process will reveal even more true desires of your heart, desires that God has placed within you, desires hard for us to discover on our own. Trust this season and believe God has your best interest at heart as He directs your steps.
My husband owns his own landscaping business. Recently, he was sharing with me how business was not as busy as usual, though, he still had jobs planned on the books to do.
I reminded him how this time last year we were finishing up building our container home to move into and business for him was a similar pace compared to now.
He then went to his photos app on his phone and scrolled to last year at the same month and saw the projects he was working on. (He collects photos of his projects to reference back on.) He realized it was, in fact, similar of a pace as last year. Then he saw how projects increased more as Fall settled in.
I heard the Lord say in that moment, “if I have bought you this far, then I’ll continue to remain faithful in days to come. Trust me.”
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Reflecting back on God’s faithfulness to us in the past, even just one year ago, and seeing how far we’ve come with our lives since moving back to Texas, both of us could only have thankful hearts towards God.
We can either see the lack in our situation and focus on what we don’t have yet, or we can reflect on God’s faithfulness and view our lives through grateful eyes.
Ungrateful hearts complain and lose sight of God’s provision for them, no matter how that provision looks, and forget how good that they actually have it. When we complain or even curse our current situation because it’s not where we think we should be in life, then we’ve only attracted to our lives things that rob and steal from us.
Our hearts and words have that much power.
But if we are genuinely grateful in our hearts and share our thankfulness to God, it’s placing our belief and faith in His goodness and faithfulness. This pleases His heart. Being thankful with your situation, where you are at now, brings blessings and open doors.
If you’re struggling to be thankful remember back on God’s faithfulness. David would cry out for help reminding God of His faithfulness.
“Do not withhold your mercy from me Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.”
Reading through the book of Hosea you quickly realize it’s not a light read. Israel is deep into their idol worship and instead of returning back to God while in their misery they brought upon themselves, they are found wailing on their beds and looking to other sources to rescue them rather than He who can actually do so.
“They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail to me on their beds.”
Hosea 7:14a
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The Lord spoke to me from this verse and passage and revealed the reason the Israelites did not cry out to Him was because they found themselves far from Him. So all they could do was play the role of a victim and cry. They had no intent to return to Him and so did not direct their cries for help to Him.
This word is for people who are struggling in their lives or have a dire situation and wonder why God hasn’t responded to their cries. He’s waiting on you to turn to Him with your heart, not just your tears. He knows it’s been hard, difficult and leaving you hopeless, but nonetheless He is wanting your entire heart. Maybe you’ve convinced yourself that you’ve given Him your full heart, but He see’s parts of your heart entertaining selfish ambitions or trusting yourself to fix things because you don’t fully trust God to come through for you.
We’re living in times where straddling the fence will not work anymore. A full heart decision has to be made and made sincerely and genuinely being devoted to Him daily.
And as promised, here is the finale of my VIDEO SERIES on “What I Still Struggle With After Healing”….
Although I have received a lot of healing with my mental health, there are still things I struggle with. I wanted to share this with you to encourage you if you are on a similar healing journey. Being an open book with my own struggles in mental health is my passion, because I want to provide to others what I needed along my own journey. Let this video embolden you to not give up with your progress!
And as promised, here is Part 3 of my VIDEO SERIES on “What I Still Struggle With After Healing”….
Although I have received a lot of healing with my mental health, there are still things I struggle with. I wanted to share this with you to encourage you if you are on a similar healing journey. Being an open book with my own struggles in mental health is my passion, because I want to provide to others what I needed along my own journey. Let this video embolden you to not give up with your progress!
And as promised, here is Part 2 of my VIDEO SERIES on “What I Still Struggle With After Healing”….
Although I have received a lot of healing with my mental health, there are still things I struggle with. I wanted to share this with you to encourage you if you are on a similar healing journey. Being an open book with my own struggles in mental health is my passion, because I want to provide to others what I needed along my own journey. Let this video embolden you to not give up with your progress!
Although I have received a lot of healing with my mental health, there are still things I struggle with. I wanted to share this with you to encourage you if you are on a similar healing journey. Being an open book with my own struggles in mental health is my passion, because I want to provide to others what I needed along my own journey. Let this video embolden you to not give up with your progress!
An encouraging word for you… There’s definitely so much more that can be said about dreams and, specifically, warning dreams. I took time to share from my own heart and experiences with warning dreams for you in this video. My main points are to not be afraid when these dreams are released to you by the Lord, to learn how to discern if your warning dream is from the Lord and to learn to listen for how He is leading you to respond.
