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May 6, 2021

 

Years ago, I made a commitment to God that if He called, I would answer, and where He led, I would follow. I committed to step anytime He said step. I told him countless times that I trusted Him and didn’t have to always know the plan if He affirmed it was Him and enlightened enough of the path for one stride, and don’t you know - God will hold you to it! Throughout the year of 2019 He did just that. There were ways too numerous to count (maybe I will share later – after I catch you up) that God made it evident that He was shifting the season. In still small ways and in ways that left me speechless He continued to draw, and every time I laid out my fleece (like Gideon) He left no room for doubt.

 

Here are a few examples:

 

Example 1.

I listened to a message by Pastor Michael Todd – Transformation Church, in which he discussed the way Yahweh guided the Israelites moving the cloud by day and the fire by night. A few days later I felt led to share the little I knew and understood of what God was placing within my spirit with a colleague who had become like an adult son to me and with whom I shared a deep spiritual connection. After we chatted and realized that in many ways God was speaking to him about a coming shift as well, he prayed and don’t you know he said, “Lord, show us when you move the cloud and give us the courage to follow.” I had not mentioned the cloud or the sermon.

 

Example 2.

There is a local juvenile court judge in our area whom, at the time, I could barely call an acquaintance and yet for “some reason” she kept coming to my mind during prayer time. I just sort of wrote it off and figured I thought of her because she works with juveniles (shrug). That was until the night my husband mentioned her in conversation and said something to the tune of didn’t Judge so and so’s son go to your school, maybe she could give some sort of guidance. Guidance regarding what, I thought…I don’t even know what this is. That night God wore me out until (at 3 in the morning) I finally said, “What am I supposed to do email this lady and say you don’t really know me, I don’t really know why I’m emailing, but God has given me a vision and has now told me to email you?” He said (in me and Jesus language), “Yep, do that.” And so, at three o’clock in the morning, I sent a prominent Nashville Judge an email that I prayed wouldn’t lead her to feel the need to file a restraining order (as the young folks would say, kidding - not kidding).

Now keep in mind I didn’t know her - not really, which means I didn’t know her beliefs, the way she thinks, how she would react to some basic stranger emailing her with a story that to some would seem a tad crazy, nothing, but when God says do; you concede lest you end up in the belly of a large fish , so I said here goes nothing, worst case this lady thinks I’m a loony tune. She did not. In fact, the short version, she too is a spiritual daughter of Christ and fully understood the way God moves. She proceeded to share how blown away she was since she opened my email after a week of frustration and in a “Lord what is the answer” moment. There are many more details to this connection, but I will hold them for later and summarize for today after that exchange, we along with a few other like-minded, like impressed upon ladies, began meeting quarterly or so just to “dream” what God might be doing and seek out why he may have connected us.

 

I can’t say what future role (if any)these ladies may fill, but I do know that at minimum God sent them to keep the fire burning that He had fanned into greater flame through that prayer, and those two OG (only God) moments solidified for me in real time, that He is indeed; in both the fire and the cloud.

Enter 2020……..