Sometimes incredible trails come our way—life-changing trails that stretch us until we feel like we are going to snap. We were taught to believe that these trails are attacks from the enemy, and we must fight against it.
But in order for God to change our lives and direct our steps, He must stretch our faith and our trust in Him. When we embrace this principle, we can get excited when trails come our way because we can wait in anticipation to see what He is going to do through the trails. But we must be willing to work with and through this principle. God wants to stretch us to bless us.
Our plans are so small and insignificant compared to what He has planned for us. When we pray and give God a detailed list of our needs and wants, we just complicate our lives. Instead, we must surrender our lives and our plans and follow His plan for us. If we live like this, completely surrendered to His will, it might look like we missed Him completely. But this is when we need to trust Him and follow Him, knowing that He is working and that it is all part of His plan to bless us.
Since my journey started, when my world fell apart and everything I dreamed of disappeared before my eyes, I never thought this would take my life in a whole new direction. When I had nothing left, He stepped in and changed my life. He opened opportunities I never dreamed of, like working from home, being part of this ministry, and being blessed and happy as a single mom. And I have faced my fair share of trials on this journey, with the biggest being the custody battle and finances. But He proved Himself faithful in so many ways.
After the divorce, I was financially ruined, but because I decided to put Him first and started to tithe from whatever I received, He provided, at first in small ways, just providing what me and the children needed. Looking back, it seems like He built my faith in baby steps, but as my journey progressed, the trails got bigger, but He provided in bigger ways as I started to trust in Him more and learned to surrender my finances to Him and His plan. The same was true with the custody battle; it was only when I was willing to go through it and surrender that I was able to see His plan unfolding.
Being willing to embrace each trail and trusting that my Beloved wants to stretch me to bless me and surrendering to His will took time and many trails, but I am at a point now where I sometimes want to panic when I face a trail, just because that was what I always did, but I can remind myself of this principle and wait in anticipation and excitement to see what He is going to do in every trail and how His plan is going to unfold.
Read Chapter 1, "Could this be His Plan"
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