God made everyone to be creative in their own way. Some of the ways that people can be creative are through art, music, writing, singing, and any other way of coming up with something that is unique to them and the world. For example, when I think of me drawing a picture, I know that I am not the best at it because my artistic ability isn’t always that good, but when I do a prophetic drawing of something I am good at it. Like in my example above sometimes we don’t realize that we are good at these creative things at times and I have at many times had instances where I felt that I wasn’t going to ever be good enough at something to show it to the world.The examples below are some of those times and what I did to overcome those things that I struggled with as I was growing up. I hope they help show you how my life got more creative over time.
However, during my YWAM (Youth With A Mission) experience in Detroit, Michigan I learned through a DTS, (schooling that was to help me find my identity more in Jesus), that I actually could give all of the bad fears and others things that I didn’t want to have to the Lord because He could fully heal me from all of those things. So as I went through the school we had a week called “Lordship” where we all pretty much gave God all of those things that we were struggling with. Some of those things for me were the fear of failure and fear of disappointing others like while I was in school with my grades and other things too. However, the whole week was amazing because during we all learned about giving all of those feelings to Jesus, so we could receive the freedom that He gives to you, which feeling amazing. It also leads us now to how this leads up how I am experiencing my life today relating to those things I struggled with.
I’ll start it by saying that in October of this past year I was pretty much just living my life in a way where I didn’t feel like I had anything to do and just watched television all day long and I really enjoy that, but I wanted to do something more. That was when I was riding with my mother to a shopping center and I noticed a Dollar Tree store (place everything is $1), sign say that it was hiring people to work there, which my mom thought was a wonderful idea for me. However, I had doubts if it was for me because I feared that I wouldn’t be good at the job because it was my first paying job and I didn’t feel like I was supposed to have a secular job, but God had other ideas for me. He said “Daniel you should take the job because you will be working with people and everyone could use your great positive attitude and your friendliness there.” Then I said, “Okay Lord if they like that I’m just doing this to raise support for my journey around the world, then I’ll work there.” God then said, “You’ll see the answer very soon on that” and the next day I received the job. Then later that night I said, “Okay Lord I’ll work there now.” This experience allowed me to learn that even when I don’t want to do something, God can say “Sorry Daniel you’re doing it.”
When I arrived to the job I found out that I’d been asked to be cashier, so I said “Okay I guess this will be cool, but it will be hard work.” Then I realized something about this job that is amazing for me, I get to talk to customers all day long, which I love doing and I get to encourage them all day long, which I was excited about. It was a real step of faith and trust that the Lord had His best intentions for me there. During the shift sometimes I heard even some of the customers tell me, “Daniel you are such a nice guy and I’m glad that you just talk to us as someone who sees the best in people, I will definitely come back to this store because of you.” Those are the moments that I say to the Lord, “Okay you knew what you were doing even when I doubted you and I’m glad I decided to trust your decision of going to work there.”
I also had one more experience that I overcame my fear of failure and disappointing with, which was with playing my guitar. I actually felt at times that I wouldn’t ever be good enough and that I should just stop playing because no one would like what it sounded like. That is when God actually had me come back to Detroit, Michigan this past August because my friend needed me to be there for something and I then asked the Lord to take my fear of failure and disappointing others away, while playing my guitar. However, sometimes I felt like it wasn’t all the way healed inside of me. Then a month or two after I got back from Detroit I felt God tell me, “Daniel I want you to do something that is creative that you’re good at that will help spread me to the world.”, through a vision and it amazed me. Then I thought, “Lord what creative thing would I be able to do?” That is when I saw my guitar in my room and I thought “Maybe I should just start to play it for fun, it doesn’t have to be good because now I know that God loves my music.” That is when I found out that God had plans for me playing the guitar.
In fact, He said to me, “Daniel I have something new planned for you that will truly show other people who I am through what it is, which is for you to create a song on your guitar.” This made me doubtful a little bit because many of you know that I am a talkative person, but when it comes to writing sometimes I struggle writing all of the things down I feel should be there. However, I agreed to do it in obedience to His command for me, so I began to write my song. As I was writing it, I felt free from any brokenness and fears and God just spoke to me in an amazing way pointing out all of the amazing things and reasons that Jesus is good, which is why I titled the song, “He is Amazing”. It was wild that I first wrote all of the lyrics as I heard the Lord say them and then decided to even write the chords and I was shocked when I realized that I had completely finished. Then the Lord said, “See Daniel with me you can be creative in all that you do and by you just trusting me, you can share what I have for the world through you.” I think that it is amazing that I have a Father that trusts in me like that because it makes me know how much He cares for me.
In the end, I am glad to share these two different ways of showing my creativity because it allows you to see what God can do in your life when you obey Him. I am excited to spread the Lord’s amazing things through my song and through all of the different opportunities that He will present me with down the road. It will be amazing to play the guitar for Him and with Him and not feel any fear of failure and disappointing because now I am healed from it with Jesus. God is amazing.
