Ever been in a season - where you feel blindfolded?
You can hear everything that is going on around you, and you can feel it but you can’t see. It. You can’t see what it is, or where you are or even where you are headed. This is my life right now!!! A transitional season, being called out from a place that is ”comfortable “ (I use that word loosely) or maybe it’s just a place that you have been for awhile that is just familiar. Feeling the call A little like Abraham leave the place that you know and head to a place unknown. That is where I believe many are in the body of Christ right now myself included. For me it has been calling me out of the corporate world into a life of well quit honestly I am not even a 100% sure yet. He just has revealed to me to step away, only work at a job that I bring to you and partner in these ministries : Light and Life with my husband, E5 Life Strategies and Found Ministries’s. He has spoken to start a business to incorporate an income but hasn’t reveled what to start and He has also spoken more education but hasn’t told me what type of education - I mean it could be university, leadership trek - whatever it may be He hasn’t revealed it yet. Bottom line walk this way and keep walking. I am blindfolded and have no idea where I am headed taking every day one step at a time fully dependent on him. There are many others in this same state in the body of Christ and it is so easy to become like the children of Israel in this season instead of like Abraham. The children of Israel were called out from a place that they knew (a place that they were begging God to get them out from under) and so He does He takes them in a direction that makes no sense and is difficult terrine you know like coming to a sea that looks impossible to cross with enemy closing in from behind and they get to that spot of transition and they began to look back to what was a life they knew but a life that had them in bondage begging to go back to it. Why - because where God was taking them didn’t make sense, didn’t look logical and way different than what they knew or even expected. In this moment for the children of Israel, this moment of transitioning into freedom from bondage the enemy is amplified as they close in from behind and it looks like there is no way out! And just as it was for the the children of Israel it is the same for us: what the enemy is up too seems to become more amplified than what God is up too - and it is so easy to look back to what is familiar and long for it even if that place of familiarity was a place of bondage, long for it and cause us to respond in fear instead of faith! Just like the children of Isereal we often find ourself aligned with murmuring and complaining instead of worshipping and thankfulness. Murmuring and complaining does not align us with the leader we are following it aligns us with the enemy who is squeezing in from behind looking to destroy us and thus amplifying what He is up too even more! What is in our throat matters in this season! Psalm 149 has become a life line for me, as I am in this transition season, this season of uncertainties Psalm 149 ESV “Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly! Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation. Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands, to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples, to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron, to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the Lord!” Psalms 149:1-9 ESV https://www.bible.com/59/psa.149.1-9.esv Listen what is in your throat matters; look back through every hero of faith in the Bible - when push comes to shove what was in their throat of each and every one of them?! Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers and throughout the entire narration of His story he never aligned himself with murmuring and complaining, at the end when he has opportunity to bring revenge in his brothers in Genesis 45 he tells them don’t worry about it, it is God who sent me ahead to preserve your life! How about Daniel a captive of war did we hear about all of his complaining and the injustice that was done to him? Not at all, no again and again he declared the goodness and praises of God! Over and over again throughout every biblical account of our hers of faith, we see that what is in your throat matters! When all of hell comes against you what is in your throat? When you are in seasons of transition and uncertainty what is in your throat? Whatever season you are in at this time what is in your throat matters. Sunday morning the Lord quickened to me that He inhabits the praises (praises is words declared out loud) so declare life declare praise, speak it out, shout it out! Do whatever you need to, to make sure that He comes close in dwells with you on this season! Because what is in your throat matters!!!
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Patrice
10/12/2019 07:36:35 am
Angel you spoke exactly what I am going through. I am definately not complaining. I praise God He has set me free from that bondage and He has shown me by His astounding favor that this WAS the step I was to take. I am blessed, but am waiting for His next direction.
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Anonymous
10/12/2019 06:21:30 pm
It seems to be the theme across the body of Christ! I will be continuing to pray for you during this season as you wait on Him. He is faithful!
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ANGELThere is a constant ebb and flow of seasons in my life: some easy, some not so easy. But with every season I am learning to focus in on Jesus, see His face and allow myself to be immersed in the process so that at the end of the day I look more like Him! Thanks for joining the journey!
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