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But back to that if you’re anything that you’re in a season where you actually have no idea what’s next you could not basically tell your left from your right it can be very nerve-wracking, it can be very overwhelming especially for somebody who likes a plan which most of us are and I was talking about earlier about how especially in this day and age why we get confused.
I think when you look in social media you can see people who seem to have their stuff together they seem to know especially when the new year is coming around. People are like what’s your new year plan what’s your goal and I’ve literally been in Seasons where I can’t even plan.
I can’t even plan, like these days I don’t plan heavily because what am I like what can I plan for, what can I guarantee it doesn’t seem like a lot when you’re going through these Seasons. So why I say navigating it because navigating is obviously getting your way through something, how can you help yourself when you’re in a season where it feels like you can’t tell your left from your right, it feels like you’re in the dark you can often feel alone in Seasons like that as well, and honestly and truly the only one thing I can scream about is God, is God like the only. I was telling my friend earlier like I’m at the cusp of like a change and I don’t know what’s coming next and I said usually when I was in Seasons like this, I would feel like I was saying to you earlier worried, afraid, overwhelmed and I was like the only reason why I don’t feel like that right now is because of God. Because I remember the God that I serve, I remember who how big God is and I was telling somebody my favourite verse cuz again I was at that Christian Branch earlier. One of my favourite verses right now is Ephesians 3:20. I might see if I can put on screen if my editing skills are given like that but it basically says in paraphrasing it heavily that God can do exceedingly and abundantly more than you could ever ask or wish or pray for and I think that’s the thing that should give you hope.
I think it’s kind of become Taboo in our culture to speak about God, people don’t want to hear it, it would be easier you for many of you that might be hearing this, some of you might even clicked out when you saw God or you heard me say God. It would be easier for me to say Law of Attraction, it would be easier for me to say manifest people want to hear that more than they want to hear God, because when you’re working with God you’re working with God’s timing, and I think that’s the thing you know he’ll come through, you know the god that you serve you know he’s brought you through this trial, that trial and if he hasn’t if you feel like he hasn’t brought you through something there’s somebody in your life that you can say I’ve seen God work for. That’s the thing that we can struggle with is okay it’s not on my effort, it’s not on me planning it’s on me having a relationship with God, it’s on me having a like responsibility to continue to seek Him, seek his presence, draw closer to him and I promise you, you can start from somewhere.
I think we over complicate our relationship with God and if we saw it as like how if you had a boyfriend or girlfriend, and you would give them time. 2 minutes speaking to your boyfriend every day on the phone would not be enough, it wouldn’t that relationship probably wouldn’t last that long. If we saw God like that and we were like okay no this morning, I need to speak to God and then you might be at the point like how do I speak to God? I don’t know what to say honestly especially in uncertainty. I was telling somebody like often I might get into a phase especially when I’m feel like I’m waiting on God, where I’m like I actually don’t want to pray. Like I don’t like, I don’t know what to say God knows what I’m going through he can see all things. So like why am I still waiting but to jump start me speaking to God there’s two things that I can do; first thing because it’s the first thing on my mind would be
1. Thanksgiving
There’s a Bible verse that says open like open through the gates with the password Thanksgiving, something like that again paraphrasing, because I find that when you give gratitude to God especially in the season of uncertainty and say you know what God I don’t know what you’re bringing me through right now but I’m grateful because I have food to eat, I have eyes that can see, I have hands that work ,I have feet that can take me to places without, you know like just anything because when you’re feeling uncertain sometimes you can get down to a point where like you feel like nothing Good’s happening for you. But find something that is a blessing, you have a friend, you have a family member, you are alive if nothing else. So that’s one thing gratitude.
2. Being Honest
Second thing thing if you feel like you can’t commune with God is being honest like I will literally tell God, like listen I don’t really want to talk to you right now. I don’t actually want to pray like that like I’m not happy, I’m not happy because I’m not seeing this happen in my life and I think a lot of people say like we go to God as if how church has taught us to go to God. Where it’s like Father please come down right now, please help me in this situation. I feel like sometimes it’s like, first of all you don’t speak to anyone else like that, so why are we speaking to God like that. When you feel uncertain in life tell him. Tell him I need your direction and what God’s been doing to me recently or what he’s told me recently is about pray without season and I think I got to a stage like I said where I didn’t want to pray because in my season of uncertainty, I said God help me and I asked for wisdom, so I was like okay I’ve already prayed about this, so what what more can I say but it’s like no. I was reading a bible plan again, I’ll link it below because I can’t remember it right now and the fifth day was talking about a story in the Bible of a woman or Widow, who was like asking the tax collector or somebody for help and it was a parable and guy was like okay fine just give her the help because if not she’ll just keep on annoying me sort of thing (and basically) and that person had no faith but basically Jesus was saying in that time God who has favour and who has good character, he’s more likely to help if that person who didn’t like the tax collector or whatever could help that woman what will he do for you.
You know as long as you ask, you will receive so don’t grow wary in your season of uncertainty and know that’s easier said than done but through God you’re less likely to grow wary because you know who you serve.
Sorry there’s like sounds, I’m outside clearly but I can’t control, if there’s a plane if there’s a policeman I don’t know.
But yeah so I didn’t even know that this was going to go down this angle cuz I never write notes I just let, I just pray that God will lead me to speak about it but that’s the only truthful explanation, I can give about how to navigate a season of uncertainty. Is to seek God and all other things will follow from that, so as long as you’re grounded. I know sometimes it might feel like nothing is changing, it actually might feel like things are getting worse but I was told by my mother, by my parents my mom dad. Like my mom said one time when I was going through a really down season, she said in football you only chase the person with a ball, meaning that if you’re in a situation where you feel like you’re always being like tested and trials and it means you have the ball, you have something so don’t give up. No matter how dark it seems, how Bleak it seems, things will turn around for you as long as you have breath you have options, which I’ve heard as well. As long as you are alive it means that there’s still more to your story and today in this brunch as I listened to people talking about their testimonies with God, and it’s like the things that are the most painful, the seasons that you don’t understand God will turn it around and use it for his good and use it to help others see his good.
So I want to encourage you, that if you feel like you have no idea where you’re going the good thing is that, at least I know I serve a God who knows where I’m going, and you have the choice too as well and truly believe that he loves you deeply, and that’s another prayer like we always hear that God loves us, but we don’t even know what love is in this world. Like you can literally pray to understand the love he has for you and then that will show you, okay no I’m not out here by myself. I’m not alone in this season, he has plans for me as long as I pray that his will be done, it will be done. He wants that for you, he said the Bible says I know the plans I have for you plans to prosper you and give you like abundance or give you a good life something like that, me paraphrasing the Bible, but I’ll get better with time.
Yeah that’s it, I wasn’t expecting to film this, my mom just said it and I was like you know what, let me just talk about uncertainty because it’s been something that used to really get me down. I used to really be depressed, when didn’t know where I was going in life. I used to really think that God didn’t care and that I used to feel like the season was never going to end, and I’m a Living Testament that you will see the light and right now, I’m again in that season where it’s like I don’t know how things are going to work out, but because I’ve seen the light before and because I know who I serve I know I’ll see the light again. And I’ll be like that’s why you took me through, that that’s why I have to wait so long, I trust that and I pray that you will trust that too, and I just want to thank you for watching this. If you come this far feel free to like comment subscribe, I love engaging with people in general I can really talk I’m introverted but I can really talk so if you have any questions, you want to speak about anything you just want to share anything in the comments like feel free I will definitely respond to you, and I just pray that this video reaches whoever it’s meant to and wherever you are I hope you have a great day, evening, night whatever I’ll see you in the next video.