“But don’t give up. No, rather “take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded” (2 Chronicles 15:7).”
The temptation is this: to escape. Recently, I’ve found myself trying to do away with this season. Maybe, like me, you find yourself exhausted with the demands of life, and you want to flee. You keep wishing for a different season. A season in the future with different responsibilities, you spend your days there in THAT place. If you could just get to that season, then you’d find rest. The challenge is this: TO stay PRESENT AND PERSEVERE when it’s hard.
What does the Bible say about perseverance and persistence? Sometimes the field you are tilling, working, and harvesting does not look like it will produce an abundant crop. Yet, till and work the field anyways. Keep doing the hard thing. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. (Galatians 6:9)
Sometimes you feel like you’re just too tired in THIS season to enjoy yourself. God says that in EVERY season, he has promised to bless you abundantly. That means you TIRED, mama. And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. (2 Corinthians 9:8)
Sometimes you think everything you’re doing is unnoticed in this season, so why does it matter? “Your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” (Matthew 6:4)
So, what do we do with all of this? Wait on HIM for renewed strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted, but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:30–31)
Continue to PRAY like the persistent widow. And he told them [the parable of the persistent widow] to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. (Luke 18:1)
Sometimes you just feel too weak, take heart because his POWER is made perfect in your weakness. There’s an opportunity to open your hands, settle your hearts, and give it all up to the Lord. “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (2 Corinthians 12:9)
![It felt like a million shut doors that led me to this ministry.
Millions of NO’s and the fact that I just wasn’t good enough. [share and save to encourage others]
Some of you might not know that I went to school for dance, moved to New York City to pursue my dance career & probably got 1,000 doors slammed in my face. I had small gigs, but never got, “THE JOB” that I felt I truly wanted.
You also might not know that my dad used to edit my papers, and there were millions of red marks all over those high school English papers.
Never in a million years did I imagine this. I never set out to start a ministry. I just wrote what God was teaching me and that was only because I kept getting a resounding, “NO.”
So, don’t let shut doors defeat you. Every Epistle Paul wrote was a letter SENT to a church because he could not GO, a door to visit had been shut. Yet, he pursued what was in front of him anyways, and every shut door became a God-given opportunity (even prison) to further the gospel! #chasingsacred](https://www.chasingsacred.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
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