Hello Friend,
God has a message that He wants to lead us into. I urge you to heed the call of His Voice.
“Peace I give unto you, My Child, and patience is what you should carry with you all the days of your life. I am going to prepare a place for you. There is much that you must endure in order to inherit the place prepared for you. Only Kingdom-minded people will dwell in My Palace. Guard your heart, seek My Face, and endure to the end. Prepare your heart for what’s to come. I will guide you every step of the way. I need you to trust me and endure persecution, because it is coming. Those who truly believe in Me, will inherit the Kingdom. Now go, and be fruitful upon the earth.”
Patience is mentioned about 70 times in the Bible. Why? Because it’s important. I want you to know that this entire devotional series was completely inspired by God. In fact, this is one of the few times in my life where I actually listened for God’s leading every step of the way. I asked Him for each topic, which platform it should be on, timeframes, context that needed to be discussed, and so much more. If it’s within this devotional, God has a specific intention for you.
God has been working heavily with me on being more specific with my ministry. At first, I thought it was the general public that I was called to lead, but He has been teaching me that women are not called to lead men. Women are called to lead women and in some cases children (1 Timothy 2:12). He specifically showed me my personal influence over women, and the role I had in leading by example and sharing my testimony. The life I lead wouldn’t mean much to those I influence if I’ve never had the same types of experiences that they’ve had. The same goes for you. God has seen your ups and downs, and sees that you are STILL patiently enduring.
You may not know exactly how you’re supposed to make your mark in the world just yet, but God is whispering to you now, “be patient.” You may not know why your life has turned out the way it has, and why you had to endure the things you’ve endured, but God is whispering right now, “be patient.” You may be asking yourself questions such as: “when am I gonna get my big break? When will God heal my womb so I can bear a child? When will God bless me with a spouse? Why do other women get to have this and I don’t? When will I get get a financial breakthrough? When will I get that dream house I’ve always wanted? When will I be delivered from my family? When will God bless me with some real friends?” The list could go on and on and on. We as women have a hard time understanding God’s timing, because we are such emotional creatures. We feel that if we want it we should have it NOW. Right? WRONG!!! Lol (respectfully). You have to understand that God’s Ways are above our ways and His Timing is different than ours. Isaiah 55:8-9 NLT says, “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” With this in mind, I caution you, that anything we think should be, God sees much bigger. I recently completely surrendered my will to heed to God’s Will for my life. I speak from experience when I say that God’s Ways are more beautiful, challenging, and rewarding. The Path He has set for you is not going to be easy, but it’ll be worth it. God’s path is often hard to travel because it’s something new that we have yet to fully surrender to. As you learn to trust that He won’t lead you astray, He will begin to prune you. You will begin to learn to be in step with Him, in tune. This process will require you to lean on your patience in Him.
We will be better off when we realize that God has a specific path for each of us. We don’t all have the same paths. Sure we may all be trying to go the same direction towards Him, but the journey is not linear. We all have different routes.
Every blessing is tied to a certain season for a certain reason: timing. As I look back over my life and ponder the seasons of my blessings, I realize that if God moved in my timing and blessed me out of season, my blessings that followed might not have been fruitful. Read that again. Sometimes, our blessings are connected to our growth, and that’s why we need patience and endurance to grow our roots for our fruit. God will not bless you out of season if you’re not ready for it. It simply will not happen. In fact, if we were to learn the lessons of patience and trust of God’s path for our lives, we may even speed the process up and the floodgates of blessing would overflow over us.
Situations shift when you’re patient. The world calls us to speed through life and hurry up and die. Honestly….. The world teaches us to get rich as fast or die trying, step on every head to get there, take pride in being better than everyone else, covet what others have, have a white picket fence family with a big house, grow old doing the same redundant work, and die. This world feeds off of instant gratification hence the word “insta”gram. We want what we want, and we want it now. But God doesn’t want that for us, He is calling us to slow down. He literally took me through a season where He had to teach me this principal. He taught me patience His way because Lord knows my life was on a fast track with no brakes in sight. He told me that He didn’t call me to add all these tasks to my day to feel accomplished, He simply called me to rest in Him. It was odd for a while and for so long I felt guilty for not having a billion things on my to do list for the day. He is calling us to allow Him to redefine what patience and rest is in our lives. What the world calls good is foolish to God. I urge you to get on God’s Path of Patience, and reap abundance.