Hey Queens! I know we have all heard this scripture before, but tonight I wanna tell you Faith just got real! Many of us walk around saying we have Faith, and maybe for the most part we do, but is your Faith in HOPING God comes through for you? I hope everything is going to be okay, but deep down I'm kind of feeling sorry for myself in the meantime? Or does your Faith tell you, "No, God IS coming through for me! In fact, He's already completed what He said He's gonna do, I'm just waiting for it's manifestation!"?
I've always considered myself a Faith woman. I know God has a purpose in all He does and He has spoken some pretty big things to me about my life, my family and my ministry, and I believe they will come to pass. But as my pastor says, there's a season between I believe it and I receive it. It's called standing, or worse, waiting! Ugh, I HATE WAITING!
But I cannot deny that it is in my waiting season that He shows me who He is, in every essence of His faithfulness, teaches me who He says I am and what He wants me to be. He does it in new ways every time. I've even developed my own term for it, "He's growing me!"
In this season He has been showing me so many things, but this weekend it was a little different. He showed me that though I submit myself to Him every day, (I can do/say that easily) I've been missing an important piece. I forget to ask Him to TEACH me to be more like Him in my surrender and submission.
I am a behaviorist by trade. I tell parents all the time, we can't just tell kids to stop a specific behavior and expect them to just stop. Their behaviors are fulfilling a need or a purpose, they have Faith it's going to get them what they want, therefore we need to teach then another acceptable behavior that they can believe will still satisfy that need and purpose!
Us adults aren't any different! Our flesh behaviors fill a need or purpose. I don't know about you but when I operate in doing what I want when I want, typically, it doesn't always work out so well! Quite frankly what I think it will get me, it usually doesn't!
I'm really good at telling God all the time, my hands are Your hands Lord, let my words be Your words, I'll go where you want me to go and do what you want me to do! Like David's heart in Psalm 119, my heart wants to stop that flesh behavior and my willingness is undeniable. But what good is that going to do if I don't know what I'm supposed to do instead?
It doesn't matter how old you are or how long you have been saved, we ALL have issues...a flesh that battles our spirits every day. We have to be teachable in this. He designed it that way, so we have to draw into Him, seek Him, because then we get to KNOW Him and then as we get to know Him, we discover who WE really are in Him!
That's His heart above all us so that we can take the knowledge of who He is and become like Him so that we can go BE Him to the world around us! It's so much more than just going to church, reading your Bible and going through the motions. These seasons and tests come so we can take what we learn in our heads, let Him nurture that relationship with us so we can GROW and GO be that blessing and miracle waiting to happen because our Faith is in knowing WHO HE IS & WHO WE ARE. That's powerful!
So yes, in that revelation, FAITH JUST GOT REAL!
I would love to hear your thoughts and testimonies and prayer requests! Due to some technical difficulties, comments on the blog are not enabled (still building the QITM website) but please feel free to comment or message me on our Facebook page!
Still working on the book, which I'm super stoked about, and speaking at juvenile hall, God has been busy over here! (but never too busy for my Queens!)
Til next time!
~C
