Water Your Worth

The past four years I have stepped into a version of living like never before. I call it living in extreme faith as I was led to give up the life I had, all material pleasures/comforts and be of service greater than my current (at the time) scope of life. I had no idea what I was stepping in to but I just knew that God needed me to do this and that He would direct me, refine me and provide… it was a leap like no other in life but a necessary one.

Through these four years I have shed many many layers of who I had become, how this world had shaped me. I continued to shed and invite God in deeper to move through me and for me because each time I got closer to Him I found that I was more satisfied. I have less and less yet more and more.

One of my favorite ways to live days is when everything just flows, there is this just sweet little dance of living where you just happen to get to the right place, get the tastiest coffee, find the best deal, interact with good company and feel uplifted to life and alive to live. I think most of us can agree that this type of day is just… satisfying. These days are when we are moving in God’s presence and will for our lives – this, I believe, is what life is supposed to be – life with our maker.

Lately, I have found myself asking God to just take over the day, to renew it and make it to His liking. I am in an environment that is testing and yet as I ask God to shift it to His day, there is no more annoyance but a filling of gratefulness and excitement for the life we have.

Since I accepted this journey to become more of who I am or rather to become who God made me to be in the first place; there has been a continual shedding of self, things, involvements, likings and even people (some of which I thought were steadfast). I have learned that as something is brought to my attention to either give away, sit with, do or let fade out of my life… there is purpose.

I used to be really big with crystals and working with energy and while it was also a form of connection with the divine it was also not the divine. I made a decision to move closer to the divine, not just any divine but THE Divine the ONE who put His energy out in order to create existence, and that required me to let go of things that I gave power to and put real trust, the ultimate faith, in the only one that saves and truly connects us to the creator – Jesus Christ.

I have committed myself so fully that there have been times that I literally had no idea where I would be that night and just had to trust that God did. And, because I have always had a connection/awareness with the spirit realm the more I chose God’s life for me instead of this world’s the more I was being watched/tempted. I learned the true power of knowing Jesus as my Lord and Savior and that He IS indeed the king of every realm and how much He protects more than anything else… I was IN. I know who I am more, but I still had some loose ends.

There was something that a couple close people that I respect brought to my attention and as I sat with it, I found that I was defending something that was less than and other than the mighty power that I knew of in Christ. No matter what scientifically or other has been proven about something actually helping with a form of protection… it was still not Christ and He was asking me to let Him fully in. As I digested this and also asked God to show me what else I needed to let go of in order to move more fully into His plans for my life, it was time that I cut a necklace that I had tied around my neck for a little time now and to let God be the powerful protective presence that He is.

The couple days leading up to this, I kept hearing, ‘I’m with you, daughter. I am with you.’ and then the day that I let it go and said, “forgive me and take over.” (one of many that has been stated through my journey), the day was one of those beautiful days where I was at the right place at the right time, got the right deal on items I needed to buy and just thoroughly enjoyed the life I was living.

In order to be fully in with our incredible creator, we ourselves need to be fully invested. If we want the life of real satisfaction, not what this world claims, but what is, it requires stepping on to The Highway – His way. Each of us will come about this differently as He has a different relationship with each of His children and He knew and knows more than anyone and anything why you are so necessary for life.

Don’t you want BE that, a life on purpose?

Let me know if this has you thinking more about something in your life or if you just want a prayer.

(This is only a snipit of life that I am meant to share with others, if you have any publishing suggestions or knowledge would you be so kind to let me know what I need to look into?)