Greater is Coming!

He’s an on time God, yes He is!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾 GREATER IS COMING!

That’s exactly what comes to mind when I think of how intentional God has been over the last few days. When I say He cares…sweetheart He cares about the details, the smallest of details!! Once again He just blows my mind. I just have to share my testimony because I just can’t deal…I’m still shook.😭

Storytime 

Let me get you up to speed. Recently I’ve been going through these  yo-yo spells where I’m good then all of a sudden self-sabotage comes and throws me all out of whack. It literally would happen like every six weeks (so annoying!). I hadn’t had one in a few weeks which meant it was coming (smh). I’m at this point in my life where I’m grateful for where I am but I know greater is right around the corner and I want the corner here like yesterday.

Well last Wednesday was our one day revival at church and I was anticipating a word from God all week and it was DELIVERED. “This will not take me out” was the title of the message and it was seriously right on time.  I even planted a seed for what I thoughtwas my next, but boy was I in for a rude awakening. Thursday comes and I have a call that I just knew was going to open up a new door for me. I had prayed about it and even put a seed on it the night before at church. I just knew I was about to walk into something new with my name on it. GREATER IS COMING. 

It gets real

Well Friday comes and before I can barely get my day started good, I got news that the door wasn’t going to open for me and that’s when the yo-yoing began.  You would’ve thought I had lost a best friend or something the way I was carrying on. But for me I just knew this was my time for something new, so I was crushed and my spirit was so low. A few hours later, I finally came to my senses. My mom brought me back to the real world and we came to the conclusion that I needed a real solid plan to get me to next (faith without works is dead right?).

Sunday at 8pm was the deadline I gave myself to have a plan written down and ready to execute on Monday. Saturday comes and goes. Then  Sunday comes with another word from the Lord. Pastor preaches a message called “Shake it off” and after sitting through all three services, (I had to serve that day lol) I felt the download at the 12:15pm service. I was coming out of the yo-yo phase, but I hadn’t shaken it off fully just yet. I did complete my plan though and it was ready to be executed Monday. 

Greater is coming

Monday gets here and I’m just blah and all in my head – emotions are something else. I go with the flow of the day and I’m just chillin. That evening I get home with the intent to work my plan, but God had other plans for me. My roommate has just gotten back from a trip home and we are catching up. Sidenote: literally every other third time we have long conversations I cry and this was no different.

I’m literally fighting tears as we are discussing everything from purpose to pain and with all I have in me I sob, “I feel like God has forgotten about me and I’m on the back burner”. 😢Then the tears just wouldn’t stop and in that moment she said, “it’s in these times when we have no words God knows exactly what we need”. I had no words. I was tired of this yo-yo feeling and I’m sure everyone around me was too. But I just couldn’t shake it, by MYSELF. After I finally got my face together, I was seriously about to go work my plan, but something said to stay downstairs and watch this Youtube video with my roommate.

Crazy faith

A sermon by Michael Todd called “Crazy Faith” was what she was on the tv. Within the first 15 mins that sermon stirred up something serious in me. As I’m listening to the message I get a text message. At first I wasn’t going to open it since we were so engaged in the sermon, but when I saw the name I was curious as to what they had to say. That text message took my all the way OUT. This wasn’t just any text message, but a text message that not only contained a blessing for my fiancé and I but reassurance that God hears my cries. Not even 30 minutes prior had I said that I felt like God had forgot about me, He then uses one of His children to send the sweetest reminder that He has me right where He wants me. MIND BLOWN!!

After we finished the video, I was completely done. I couldn’t handle much more. I was just so full of praise.  It was at that moment that I was reminded that everything works out for our good.  I felt so free and so in awe of God and His works. God is so intentional. He never forgets about His children and even when we feel lost and afraid He’s right there guiding us along the way. Never forget, that greater is coming. 

Keep the faith even when it’s hard

I really just wanted to encourage someone today. Sometimes we just need a reminder of who He is and whose we are. No matter what you’re going through, big or small, God cares. God knows your every thought and hears your every pray. Don’t lose faith – now faith is the confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see Heb 11:1.

Continue to be the light in this world of darkness. Be the hope to the hopeless and the friend to the friendless.

I don’t know what all the future holds and that’s ok, but I do know that I will be marrying my best friend in 130 days and I have CRAZY FAITH that God is going to shift some major things in my life before and after our big day. Everything changes in 2019…I put my weight on that. GREATER IS COMING!

Be BeYOUtififul.

❤️ XO LC

✨Note: CRAZY FAITH – thoughts and actions that lack reason, but trusting fully in what you cannot explicitly prove (M. Todd)✨