Like many of you, I have been waiting on The Lord for clear directions regarding some things, but all I keep hearing is :"take the plunge and your gift will make room for you!" And all I keep seeing in the spirit, is myself hesitantly jumping off a small boat into the ocean.
TAKING THE PLUNGE
(Oxford Dictionary)
To commit oneself to a course of action about which one is nervous.
I am the type of person who likes to have all things planned out and organized before I set out to do something, especially at work! I write very detailed to-do lists, but walking in The Spirit through life, doesn't allow for that. As I have been walking with The Lord, I had to completely change my M.O. Walking in The Spirit means walking by faith, which has no room for detailed lists, calculated steps and outcomes, or else it wouldn't require faith! He gives us one set of instructions at a time, and it is a theme all throughout the Bible. Once we obey and complete the first step, which is usually extremely scary and hard to do, then comes the second set of instructions. His Word Is enough! If He says:"Go and I will be with you". We need to completely trust Him to see us through; if we know Him, if we know Him well, there would be no room for doubt or fear in us, because God Has shown Himself faithful and trustworthy, time and time again!
Everything He Has planned for us to accomplish is strictly related to our calling and our identity in Him.
Only by walking the path He Has set out for us, will we be able to become who we are meant to be. Life is one long, and painful metamorphosis, the more we fight it, the more painful it becomes, and some of us don't even get to become butterflies, we live and die as caterpillars, never accomplishing our destiny! We need to yield to Him, to the work of The Holy Spirit, no matter how scary or hard. We shouldn't feel guilty or ashamed for being scared and unsure, even Jesus struggled with these feelings while He was waiting to be crucified. His soul and body were in such distress that he sweat blood! But He didn't resist or object the Father's will, because He knew The Father loved Him, and that what He was experiencing was His mission, His calling, His destiny, so He yielded to The Father, and He won!
Courage is not the absence of fear, but it is doing things in spite of being scared!
If we want to know who we are meant to be in Him, and what our calling is, we need to have an intimate relationship with The Lord. That is the only way to know our identity and to move towards it. Without that internal compass, we will never be able to accomplish our mission, because we will lack direction, discernment, and discipline.
Once we have that understanding, then we will be able to blindly obey His instructions once we receive them.
In the depth of our being, we all know what we are meant to do, what the next step is, "TAKE THE PLUNGE!"
You don't have to wait for a different job offer to leave that job that you hate!
You don't have to make new friends, before you sever that one-sided friendship!
You don't have to wait to fall in love with someone else to leave that toxic relationship!
You don't have to wait for God to show you which diet plan to follow to start your weight-loss journey!
You don't have to have all the funds to start working on your business plan!
You don't have to have extra money to start tithing!
You don't have to have all the chapters of your book planned out to start writing that book!
You don't have to have the best equipment to start recording videos and podcasts!
You don't need all the money for the tuition to enroll in school!
All you need is instructions and the knowing that that is what you're meant to do!
JUST DO IT!!
Once we jump, He will open doors that we cannot even fathom!
All I keep hearing is :
"TAKE THE PLUNGE AND YOUR GIFT WILL MAKE ROOM FOR YOU AND OPEN DOORS THAT ONLY I COULD OPEN!
NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO STOP THE MOMENTUM THAT YOUR OBEDIENCE WILL CREATE! NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO STOP THE FLOW OF LIVING WATERS THAT WILL FLOW TO AND FROM YOUR BELLY! WHEREVER YOUR FOOT SHALL REST, THERE WILL BE A BLOOMING OF LIFE! NO MORE BARREN PLACES! THE DEAD BONES WILL COME TO LIFE AS YOUR STEPS WILL BE PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS UPON THR EARTH! THE VERY GROUND YOU TOUCH WILL COME TO LIFE AS YOU WALK IN YOUR CALLING AND DESTINY!
MY GLORY WILL BE MANIFESTED THROUGH YOU AS YOU ACCOMPLISH ALL THE WORKS WRITTEN IN YOU BOOK AND I WILL MAKE YOU AN EXAMPLE TO THOSE WHO HAVE REDICULED YOU AND YOUR DREAMS! THOSE WHO HAVE OVERLOOKED YOU, UNDERAPPRECIATED YOU, AND JUDGED YOU FOR BELIEVING IN THE IMPOSSIBLE! BUT THAT'S WHOM I DELIGHT MYSELF IN! THOSE WHO TAKE ME AT MY WORD, THOSE WHO REMIND ME OF MY PROMISES, THOSE WHO CALL ME ABBA. BECAUSE THAT IS WHO I AM, I AM YOUR LOVING FATHER, I LOVE LAVISHING ON YOU! YOU ARE THE APPLE OF MY EYE! MY SWEET CHILD! MY PRECIOUS SONS AND DAUGHTERS! IF YOU ONLY KNEW HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU AND HOW MUCH I DESIRE TO BLESS YOU! THE WORLD WILL LOOK AT YOU AND KNOW THAT THERE IS A GOD BECAUSE MY FAVOR AND BLESSING WILL BE DISPLAYED IN EVERY AREA OF YOUR LIFE!
JUMP IN! JUMP IN THE INFINITE WATERS OF MY LOVE! LOSE YOURSLEF IN ME, I AM YOUR ALL IN ALL! I AM THE ONE WHO GIVES YOU LIFE, EXUBERANT LIFE! JUMP INTO MY LOVING ARMS MY CHILD, I WILL NEVER LET YOU FALL!
IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO COME OUT OF HIDING AND USE YOUR VOICE AND YOUR GIFTS, IT IS TIME FOR THE REVEALING OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD!
I AM SO PROUD OF YOU FOR ENDURING ALL THOSE TRIALS AND NEVER LOSING FAITH IN ME! I KNOW IT WAS HARD AND THAT'S WHY I WILL REWARD YOU BEYOND ANYTHING YOU CAN THINK OR IMAGINE! "
1 John 3:1 TPT
Look with wonder at the depth of the Father’s marvelous love that he has lavished on us! He has called us and made us his very own beloved children. The reason the world doesn’t recognize who we are is that they didn’t recognize him. with wonder at the depth of the Father’s marvelous love that he has lavished on us! He has called us and made us his very own beloved children. The reason the world doesn’t recognize who we are is that they didn’t recognize him.
Romans 8:18 AMP
For [even the whole] creation [all nature] waits eagerly for the children of God to be revealed.
Proverbs 18:16 NKJV
A man’s gift makes room for him,
And brings him before great men.
Rosangela Atte
Great post Rosangela.
The Lord has blessed me with the gift of greater than average faith. But that has required me to walk in that faith at higher levels. He has told me that each big step of faith gives us what we need to take the next big step of faith. I have been walking out a trail that has really challenged my faith beyond anything in the past – to the point that at times of weakness in this walk I have felt the need to apologize to the Lord for my lack of faith. He told me “We may have enough faith to start our walk with God, but we don't have enough to finish it…
Take the plunge is right on. DJG Pitt Meadows