It’s so difficult to see someone so clearly and know that they’ve lost sight of you.
As much as I wish I could stop it, sometimes, my heart feels like it's breaking.
Five Reasons Your Candidate is an A**hole.
11 years ago
It’s so difficult to see someone so clearly and know that they’ve lost sight of you.
As much as I wish I could stop it, sometimes, my heart feels like it's breaking.
I have never been one for small dreams. Visions that only I could accomplish. Goals that I could say I finished alone. No! If we're going to hope, why not hope big...beyond our own capabilities? If we’re going to dream, why not dream OUTSIDE THE BOX? I'm not the daughter of a small minded Father, so why should I be fearful to act like him...dream like him? So what no one has ever done it! Maybe it’s for you to be the first. Don’t be afraid to be a Trail Blazer. So what no one believes you can do it! Believe in yourself. So what you don’t have a degree in that field! Research, study, practice so when the door is opened, you’re not scrambling to ready yourself for something God gave you time to prepare for. Accomplishing our dreams is not only for us to become wealthy, stable, give us bragging rights or accolades. It is not to boost our pride, prove the “haters” wrong, or even make us feel complete. It is to advance God’s Kingdom. His will. His heart.
We tend to forget that the “good” that we’re wanting to come out of our success is directly pipelined into our heart from God’s heart. Do you really think you came up with these great ideas all your own, just for you? We pray for His will to be done and for what breaks his heart to break ours and then we put stipulations on it…
“It must happen this way, with this many people, by this age, in this season, with a max percentage of this much discomfort/pain/displacement.”
We dream small to make sure we remain comfortable. To have just enough. Not too much to temp us, not too little to complain. Or we are too fearful to dream big because we don’t know the price we will have to pay for that platform. We’re afraid we will fall into the holes that have engulfed so many before us. We secretly declare “that will never be me because …” and all the while God could be saying,
“But I have chosen you to be a great voice to my people. Trust me and I will guide you around/out of the snares of the enemy. I will not let your foot strike a stone. I will protect you and keep you. I will take guard of your name because you are doing all these things I am showing/guiding/telling you to do in MY NAME.”
May the Lord bless and keep the dreams that are in His will and sift out the ones that are not. I pray that the dreams that were lost due to rejection, weariness, fear, procrastination, disobedience or discouragement be FULLY resurrected. Yes Lord, break our hearts for what breaks yours but also give us the patience, fortitude and grace needed to endure it as well as the courage and boldness needed to go AGAINST the grain…the norm. Protect and lead those that are called to any size platforms and do not let our dreams become a victim of our environment, circumstances or past, but water and nurture it to grow into the FULL fruit it was meant to be, lacking fear and full of boldness.
Beautiful. Intelligent. Talented. Wanted. Loved. Needed. Healed.
Irreplaceable. Accepted. Forgiven.
You can finish this sentence with just about anything and if what you’ve filled it with isn’t resolved to whatever is TRUE despite what’s been said or implied, it can sting a bit (or cause you to spiral into a deep, dark place) when saying or reading it.
There are so many things that happen in life that cause us to second guess or even completely deny who God said we are, what God said we can do and where God said we can go. The lack of promotion on a job can make you feel overlooked or invaluable. The dismiss of a friend can make you feel rejected. The end of a relationship can make you feel unloved or unwanted. Even seeing someone pick up where you left off can cause you to feel replaceable…disposable.
The fact is we are so much more than people’s opinions of us. We often let our family, friends, colleagues, mentors and leaders define us with their praise, encouragement or scolding to the point of us no longer knowing who we truly are and what we want to stand for. You may want to never marry and yet your family may tell you it’s necessary for every woman/man. You may want to abandon everything and go to a suffering country and sow your life into people that are beyond poverty but your colleagues tell you it’s ridiculous to give up all of the benefits you have to live with the poor. You may want to speak into the lives of women who have been wounded by abuse but have been told you’re not eloquent enough or have no influence. You could have the desire to lead people into worship but have been silenced by the rejection of leadership.
No matter your story, no matter the wound, no matter the scar, go with the Word. Go with the fire that burns in your heart to go and do. Go with the vision that has been dropped in your spirit. Go with the secret talent you’re scared of sharing. Pour out the passion that is bubbling over in your soul. Step out. Be bold. Be creative. Be courageous. Be HEARD.
There is someone out there waiting to hear you speak, waiting to hear you sing, waiting to see the beauty you can create. Waiting and may continue to wait until you decide to get out of the boat and step out onto the water. Someone’s salvation could be waiting on the words God has placed in your heart. Someone’s deliverance could be in the anointing of your song. Someone’s courage could be in the visual of seeing you be courageous. Someone’s strength could be in the telling of your overcoming.
The truth is we are ONLY what God says we are and man either echoes what God has already proclaimed and ordained to be true or denies what He has declared and plants seeds that continue to remain at war in our souls until plucked out. So let’s get to plucking…
We ARE beautiful and not ugly. We ARE seen and not overlooked. We ARE accepted and not cast out. We ARE talented. We ARE needed. We ARE wanted. Irreplaceable. Valuable. Cherished. Purposed.
LOVED.
We are Salt and Light. The masterpieces of The Potter. We are not the wounds or successes of our past but we are sons and daughters of The King and we are who our Father says we are and it’s time for us to believe it, behave like it and trust it.
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