The
devil ain’t always busy and up to something. Sometimes YOU are just busy ignoring God.
As I’m driving to work this morning, God kept putting the
words from my best friend’s prayer last night in my mind, “keep your eyes fixed
on God.” Focus, FOcus, FOCus, FOCUs, FOCUS! That’s literally how I felt the
words were showing up in my mind. God was showing me that He needs me to be
focused not for myself but so that I can effectively help others. To break it
down in the message version, Angel I don’t have time to play with you! I need
you focused now period and the end. Got a problem with that? Good, didn’t think
so. Yes, all up in my face before 8 am!
Long story short, God placed something on my heart about a
week ago that is requiring me to delegate responsibility and involve people in
various ways for the vision. This is something that is difficult for me to do
because I find it difficult to find dependable people to delegate to then I
also get concerned about having to put out fires, and correcting things that
are said that don’t line up with the word of God by someone that is linked to
me, etc. So God has been showing me various things regarding this vision and I
have had multiple conversations with people who I consider wise council that
have stated the necessity of delegating and that pretty much I can’t be
superwoman and do everything on my own. As I’m sitting at work this morning, I
start thinking again about different people/things that God has shown me and I’m
questioning every detail about it. Can they do this? What are their intentions?
What if this happens or that happens? What if they don’t do it? How will it
work? As I’m thinking about all of this I had already said “I’m not sure about
this” to various things/people that God was showing me regarding certain things
all week. In the midst of all this I see myself walking and closing doors.
These are all doors that are open remind you, and I’m going through and closing
each of them. Then God shows me that’s what you’re doing with the doors I’m
trying to open for you…Completely messed me all kinds of up! He showed me that I’m
so caught up in what I think is best, what I think I know, what I think is
right that I’m hindering my own blessings because He’s opening doors to reach
more people and to network and my busy body self is coming right behind Him
slamming them shut. God’s screaming ANGEL!!! Take your hands off of everything,
step back from it, and let ME take the lead! Rest, please and thanks!! God has
to deal with me like that because I get so busy being busy doing absolutely
nothing but running in circles that He just has to gut punch me every once in
awhile. That’s how we roll.
Proverbs 3:5-6 tells us to, “trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and
lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He
will direct thy paths” (KJV). The funny thing is we incorrectly
paraphrase scriptures with our lives and don’t even realize it. Well what in
the world does that mean? We quote the scriptures and we verbalize them to
people but the way we live it is different from what we say or what the actual
context is. So we quote Proverbs 3:5-6 as one of our favorite scriptures but we
live it as though it says, “trust in the Lord with the parts of your heart that
make sense or satisfy how you feel at any given moment; and lean not on your
own understanding unless God is taking too long or doesn’t give you the answer
that you want than go on ahead and shoulder lean on it (HFV aka Human in
Feelings Version, don’t buy that version FYI).
Day in and
day out we continue to lean unto our own understanding when God desires to lead
us and guide us but we just swear up and down that we know best. He can’t take
control if we won’t give up our own control. Do you not realize that He created
you for the very thing that He has given to you and wants to teach you how to hone
your gifts and visions and develop them so that you can be effective in helping
others to know Him! Psalm 32:8
reminds us of this, “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I
will guide thee with Mine eye” (KJV). We have the best coach ever yet
we ignore Him…the Holy Spirit is given to us to guide us so if we choose not to
follow it or even question it’s leading are we not saying that we don’t trust
the Holy Spirit? Sometimes you have to really break things down and look at it
like okay, by me not doing this or that what am I really saying to God?
We’re so
quick to say the devil is busy blocking our blessings! The devil sho is up to
something, got me stressed out, this that and the forth. Uhm no, sometimes it’s
YOU honey. Sometimes you are the
problem, closing doors on your own blessings, and keeping God from
using you to your full potential. My pastor always says the devil is our enemy
but sometimes our other greatest enemy is our own selves. We hinder the spirit of God in our own
lives and we blame it on the devil and he looking back laughing at you with his
little fallen angel’s geeking it up watching you self destruct. Stop feeding
the nonsense. We don’t have time to sit around and fight God on the things that
He is trying to do through us and in us. We’re on the same team! Why are you trying to go
back and forth with God on the things that He is trying to bless you with and
also bless someone else in the process? Rest, He’s got this. Whatever it is
that you’re so busy doing right now, stop. Take your hands off of it and just
stop. Stop and go before the Lord in prayer and say God above all else, Your
will be done. If it’s not in God’s will it’s going to fall apart and it’s going
to stress you out in the process. When God ordains it, it just works. Stop
questions the when, the how, and what’s. You have to let Him take the lead because
believe it or not you really are not capable of leading yourself. So many of us
are getting our ballroom dancing on in this world trying to lead and follow at the
same time while God is sitting in the audience like you don’t even realize I’ve
stepped off the dance floor. You have to let Him take the lead and you have to
sit down and follow period.
If you read
this all the way to the end I’m sure you’re thinking uhm excuse me Angel but
did you forget that you told on yourself in the beginning??? Hypocrite much!
Trust me when I say the message hits the messenger first. What I share is
because God convicted me to change and my prayer is that in sharing the lesson
I learned that it will convict someone else to change as well.
“A man’s heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his
steps” (Proverbs 16:9, KJV).
