“Trust me. I am trustworthy. I am worthy of trust. In moments where you don’t feel like it, intoxicate your heart with remembering my character. Remember my character not your past disappointments that tell you that this is going to be just like last time. Because it’s not, and I want you to believe me. It’s not going to be like “last time”. I know you’ve felt lost and afraid. I know you’ve felt like this is an exaggeration and this is not going to work. But try me. Try me. Try my ability. See that I want the absolute best for you always. See that there is nothing more than I want for you to live the dreams I thought for you before you knew your own name. I have such big dreams for you. They’re bigger than yours. I know you have a certain perspective of your life and of how you see things occurring. If you have the ability to see that it’s only because you mirror me. You look like me, remember? I made you. The ability to dream is mine. I breathed into you. You are one of the dreams I had in my heart and now you’re alive.”
I remember taking some time to pray and hearing those words reassured my heart. I wanted to share them with you.
“Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.” – Proverbs 3:5 AMPC
There are 89 days left in this decade. Isn’t that such a jolting thought? In less than three months, we will enter into a new phase of time.
A flurry of thoughts may arise when you conceptualize that. You may think about your age. You may think about what hasn’t happened yet. You may begin to meditate on the things that hasn’t happened in your life yet, in terms of what God has told you about yourself. You may think of where you are in your journey and wishing you were further along. Maybe you’re pretty content but there’s that one thing you wish was different.
I challenge to throw yourself into understanding God’s character rather what you feel like is incomplete. Throw yourself into confiding in His ability and His desires for you. Don’t think that it’s all too late as if the rest of the time left in this year is not good enough.
There’s so much God is willing to do to allow His dream in you to come to pass, but He is requiring confidence that will push past what the heart and thoughts try to dictate. He wants to see that your confidence is rooted in Him and not in yourself.
Will you trust Him? At this sensitive threshold of incredible favor, development, growth, transition, strategy and transformation, will you give Him a vote of confidence? Are you willing to give a yes to His plan, despite what you may or may not know?
The ‘thing’, the secret ingredient that will allow your future to materialize is trust. Trust beyond experience, pain, memories. Those are the things that hold our hearts in the strongest of hostages because of their power to draw you back in time to how you felt, perceived and understood at the time. The mind paints it as a reality, although it was a perception that the mind has made a monument of. The fear, grief, hesitation, regret, indecision, feelings of unworthiness… trust Him with it all. He can handle it… Allow Him to resolve it with who He is and then take the time to dream with God.
It’s when we take our hearts and place it intentionally in confidence and dependance on God, our future will come alive in front of our eyes. In the progression of trust in God comes personal progression. As trust develops, you’ll see a person that you don’t know but at the same time knew was alive all along and just needed that slot of vulnerability to be filled by confidence in God’s presence. He will honor vulnerability. He will exceed expectation and will never despise our hearts being open to Him.
Trust God. He is worthy of trust. It won’t be like “last time”. This time is characteristically and categorically different. He just needs your yes… and the progression continues.
“Yes to this new level of your dream for me”. That’s what God is asking for.
Let’s walk it out, all the way into 2020 and beyond.
