Prepared For Purpose

Happy Saturday friends! April has been the most hectic yet most purposeful month of the year for me so far. As I probably mentioned before, I’m in the midst of a lot of transitions and even though I feel like Dorothy when she was in the middle of the tornado watching aspects of her life swirl around her, I’m reminded of one thing. God has graced me for this.

Yesterday for the first time in what I feel like has been forever, I had a moment where I pushed past my tiredness and forced myself to just be intentionally present. I started to think about all the upcoming changes in my life and one thing highlighted for me is that I’m currently preparing to walk into a desire of my heart. I realized that I’m about to walk into an answered prayer. I’m also reminded that God really has the plans for our lives. We can pray to God for a specific thing but never think about the specific journey that God will lead us on just to get to the promise.

As I spent some time journaling last night, I reflected on the subtle prayers which really to me were just commentary to God. I reflected on those moments where I would be experiencing this strong urge towards my desire. The moments where I would be in my car and would simply say to God “Lord I really desire to do this.. or that” and then I would just process and move on. This is something that occurred often over the course of the past 5 years or so.

As I conclude a part of my journey I now understand the parts where it seemed God was not giving me a lot of info. He gave it to me in pieces. The way God often deals with me is that He will tell me what to do next but only give me one step instructions. I chuckle thinking about it because God knows His daughter well lol. He knows my personality and how I’m wired. He knows that I’m nosey and often want to know every single detail. Even though I often want to know every detail I’ve learned and accepted that God isn’t going to give that to me. That in itself has taught me how to be radically obedient and pushed me to trust God in a new way. He has shown me bits and pieces out of order but the puzzle isn’t often complete until my assignment at the moment on this particular journey is complete and I’m moving on to something else.

I say all of that to say, God reminded me of the things He showed me years ago that I didnt understand. The things that I quite frankly muttered to Him “yeahhh no God you can’t be for real.” Even in the hesitation at times I still obeyed and I’m greatful that I did. I thought about how if I didn’t obey God the first time I could have missed out on experiencing the desire of my heart by a complete landslide. I thought about how my obedience to God and His timing has allowed me to walk right into my purpose. I was reminded that my subtle prayers to Him were heard and that God cares about every aspect of my life just as He does yours. I learned that life is one big journey that leads you to purpose. Every detail, situation, instruction, shoot even the struggle of it all. I learned that when you yield in true obedience God will set you up to walk directly into your purpose and His promise.

God has been preparing me for a long time as I can now look back and see. I’m grateful for the tenacity that He has given me to withstand the test and trials. Also the strength He gives me to continue to push through and overcome in it all. I’m truly living a Jeremiah 29:11 moment.

As much as this post today is an unofficial official pending testimony lol, I’m encouraging everyone who reads this post to trust God and obey! We often hear “obedience is better then sacrifice” and let me tell you, that is a true statement. God will not fail you, He will always give you an expected end.

My prayer today is simply this. I pray that we experience EVERYTHING God has for us in its entirety.

With love,

-Yours Truly, Eb