Words. There is MORE to a word than just combining spoken
sounds and syllables to make a familiar coherent noise that someone knows the
meaning to. Before you speak a
word, there has to be a thought behind it, even if just for a millisecond.
Well in my last blog “Go Big or Go Home� I let a lot of
words come out of my heart and for those around me, those words came out of my
mouth! Once a word is released there is no taking it back. It has already been
heard, if not by others, than at least by my own ears!
I let my dream out, and what
was once for me and God to know, all of a sudden became knowledge for others who
were in earshot/eyeshot of my words.
What came next was unexpected. My excitement turned to a
battle against fears.
Immediately I realized that I just released a dream, that
required action and hard work, and if I did not follow through a lot of people
would know!
I realized that just because I said my dream out loud, that it DID NOT make it any easier to achieve. I realized that my dream was going to take a
lot more investment. I realized that my flesh immediately started doubt in
myself and in God. I had to
quickly claim who I am in Christ.
The biggest thing I have learned so far is that I need
people. I had to look at myself in the mirror, and realize that my dream is not
for me to do alone. This dream is not for me to carry on my shoulders, because
it is not mine. It is for me to rely on God, and it is for me to do with
others.
We were not created to do life alone, so I am relying on God to network
me with others so that we can mesh our dreams into something bigger than we
could have ever imagined.
I have already had to speak against the thoughts to give up.
It is so easy to just give in and walk away from dreams, but I know that it
will be worth it to pursue.
So I fight.
I tell myself that God has something
planned. I tell myself that I am a daughter of Christ, and that TODAY I am going
to walk in my inheritance, whatever that may look like today. I focus on what I
can do TODAY. I believe in what God says about me TODAY. This way, when tomorrow comes I
KNOW WHO I AM BECAUSE I KNOW what my father says about me, and I know what is
MINE!
As I take the necessary steps of putting a band together,
and working out logistics for a trip I know that my hand is holding tightly to
God’s as I take my first steps in my dream.
There will not be any “easy� season
to this dream, and I don’t know that I would want there to be. The investment,
the tears, the hard work, the journey is worth it to see God wreck this world
with his unconditional LOVE.
Please continue to be a part of watching/making this dream
happen.
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