Lately, I feel as though I have encountered quite a few people truly searching for a change. They feel unsettled in their present path, as if where they are, what they are doing, and direction they are headed is not where they are meant to be. This is a hard place to be....and although one can recognize and acknowledge this...it doesn't necessarily come with the solution. However, this most likely means He is preparing you for a change...making you so uncomfortable that it will be near impossible for you to say no when the opportunity presents itself...maybe HE knows you too well. I do know that you have been called...since before you where even a fleeting thought, before your conception....you were life breathed for a purpose; finding and then fulfilling HIS is the hard part.
"O Lord, you have searched me and known me!...You hem me in, behind and before,and lay your hand upon me....For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them."
-Psalm 139:1; 5; 13-16
"But now hear, O (your name here) my servant, Israel whom I have chosen! Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O (your name here) my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen....Remember these things, O (your name here) for you are my servant; I formed you; you are my servant; O (your name here), you will not be forgotten by me. I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you. Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel. Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself"
-Isaiah 44:1-2; 21-24
I pray when you do see the opportunity that you will not be afraid to grab hold of it and live for Him...completely...that you will not hesitate as I so often have...that you will willfully go (easier said than do, i realize). That you have faith enough to not see, but believe that He is good and His plans are as well....He will provide everything....He doesn't deal in backup plans....quit attempting to create and hold on to ones...as if He's failed at anything. Leaving everything up to Him (even the smallest details) can be the most frightening yet freeing thing all at the same time. Be patient...He will reveal it in His own time.
"...This is the message from the one who is holy and true. He is the one who has the key of David. He OPENS doors, and no one can shut them; he SHUTS doors, and no one can open them. I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that NO ONE can shut. You have little strength yet you obeyed my word and did not deny me."
-Revelations 3:7-8
"For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called YOU, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might"
-Epehsians 1:15-19
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