Incredible Mornings

its been a minute, I have been desperately wanting to write but for the past few months I struggled… no matter what came to me in thoughts and in spirit, I just  could not pen it down…

Today though is an incredible morning. I believe God has been asking me to listen a little bit more so I can recognize His REGA  moments.  It is 7h30 on a Saturday morning,  I don’t generally wake up at this time especially to write but I finally recognized a pattern. A few weeks ago I got a scripture to read in my dream (yup, even I get scriptures in my dream… atleast this one time I did ok 🙂 ) the book of Joshua and so I have been reading this book every now and then because I don’t believe I have understood what God was trying to say to me. I keep going back with the knowledge that it will be revealed in His timing… this was one of the incredible mornings…  but not like today.

Let me get back to today’s incredible morning, its 7h30 and I wake up out of a dream that gave me anxiety and made me tired. This has been happening for a few days now where everything is a struggle… I was frustrated with myself for the pace my personal organization I run for young people has taken; things are not moving at the pace I expect from myself, there are things blocking the vision, everything is difficult.  I have gone back to the exercise of rewriting it almost everyday to make it clearer in my head. Even the people I brief to do work for me take longer than they should. So I woke up to pray to God to give me the clarity of thought and begin to remove all the excess weight that holds me back from moving at the right pace. I prayed for a clearer direction and speed… But as per my normal routine, after praying I take my phone to check what I missed while I was sleeping.  This I usually do by going through the different social media apps I have on my phone. I rely on these things so much I no longer watch the actual news except if they will be giving more details. This morning however I did not go through the news as intended when I took my phone. I took the phone and had the urge to first read the bible. I had a scripture in my heart though I don’t know where it came from. I had to read Genesis 13: 13-17. This scripture was not a random scripture or something we were reading in church but I found it in my heart to go straight here…

Genesis 13: 13-17 (AMP)

But the men of Sodom were extremely wicked and sinful against the Lord [unashamed in their open sin before Him].

¹⁴ The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had left him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are standing, northward and southward and eastward and westward; ¹⁵ for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever. ¹⁶ I will make your descendants [as numerous] as the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the [grains of] dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted. ¹⁷ Arise, walk (make a thorough reconnaissance) around in the land, through its length and its width, for I will give it to you.”

I literally have goosebumps as I journal,  I wanted to share this moment with you. Sometimes God puts the vision on hold to interrogate the person further and to give us an opportunity to introspect what we are keeping ourselves busy with.  God grants us time to continuously do personal audit,  the wickedness and sin that surrounds us weighs heavily on us and makes it difficult for us to carry a God given vision through.  God’s promise is consistent, He says, “I have great plans for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you.”  If then prosperity is God’s plan for us, why then do we sometimes not feel as prosperous? Well the answer for me lies in this scripture of Genesis 13. We are not maximizing our full potential, not because we are incapable but because we let the things of the world preoccupy us and distract us from our true path. What stops us from achieving the things we should be is not the absence of luck in our lives, it is because we do not recognize who we are in the Lord and so we act like lost sheep, trying different things all the time and hoping one of them will work. We stay not informed by our ultimate source and allow ourselves to be deterred from our own paths.

This scripture has just reinforced something in me, when I have a mental blockage and stuck in the same place for longer than I believe I should be,  it is time to introspect and understand the operating space I am in.

There is a general saying that knowledge is power, I will take it a step further for you and tell you this; The knowledge of God is power in your life. I have since taken the time to read the whole Genesis 13 and amazed by how God communicates with us daily without fail… without fail… without fail…

It is good to be finally back!

ChurchGirl

LM.