Reaching My Gilgal (reminder God’s
powerful provision):
These past 3 years there have been days where God winked but
this was often overshadowed by the hardship of circumstances in my faith and
life journey. You see in March of 2012 I
shut my Business Coaching business down.
That same week I won a website at a Women in Business Networking
event. I looked up at God and said "Really? I just spent our entire
retirement on this business, which failed, this isn't funny." I was mad
because I was crushed.
Fast forward 6 months. The word catalyst kept on coming to
mind but I didn't know why. I still had
the free website and in January 2013 I decided to do something with it. This was only after hearing a sermon, from my
new church, Living Hope, about the
journey out of the wilderness into the promise land. Then through trial and error,
of what was available, I settled on MyDreamCatalyst.com
and there it sat for 8 months. I did
nothing with it and was very confused now that I was back in the corporate
world. In August, I started an online class with Donna Partow at WEU having
no idea you could make a living selling E-Products on the internet. This was awesome since I love writing and
helping people! So I FINALLY started my blog three weeks ago.
Then this past Friday, Donna gave me a word that she sees me
as a type of Moses leading women out of the marketplace into the
Entrepreneurial arena. Out of the wilderness
of their soul to their promised land using their God given talents, skills and
abilities. Then the next morning my
devotional reading in Our Daily
Bread was based on Exodus
3:7-15 where Moses gets his assignment to lead the Israelites to the
promise land because God heard their suffering!
This journey, through my own desert, has been messy and
hard. I have had to learn to have faith,
to trust and to let go. This is simply
not my personality so this was VERY hard for me. I had to trust God and not ask why He wants
me to do something. To be obedient in
shutting the business down, to focus on my marriage, to swallow my pride and work for someone else, to let God heal me, and
then do the hard work of healing. All
this work, all this fighting happened while I was blindly following God taking
only...one...step...at...a...time. He
has given me purpose out of what seems like a complete mess. He has taken me to my Gilgal and revealed a
bigger part of His plan. I praise the Lord and want the rest of you to know that
yes things are messy and are confusing. He
has a reason and a purpose for your life.
To me His winks in my story tell us:
- I AM HERE NEXT TO YOU, ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT
- I AM FAITHFUL, TRUST IN ME
- I AM POWERFUL, LET GO
- I LOVE YOU ENOUGH TO WORK ON YOUR HEART FIRST, SO WE ARE READY FOR YOUR CALLING
What do you need to ask Him for this week?
Where do you need to trust Him?
Where do you need to let go?
Where in you heart do you need to let Him heal you?
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