Hey Friend, have you ever felt unsettled, not sure of what your next step is? Or do you seem to be living without purpose? –like there isn’t anything you are aiming or working towards?
Step One: God Uses your Environment
While out praying on my morning walk, God impressed on me the concept of spring cleaning. It is spring in New Zealand, lambs are frolicking, grass is growing, and the temperature is increasing. It’s at this time of the year that we give our houses a spring clean. I have become more conscious of several things in my writing business, home and mental attitude that are in disorder – piles of paperwork that need to be scanned and digitally filed, website that needs updating etc. God is saying to me – before I can move you onto a new vision where you will create new things, you need to get everything else in order.
God led me to Genesis 1:2 “The earth was formless, and void and darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.” My disorder is like the deep – without form, no order. Disorder produces nothing. Disorder is not set up to be productive. But as the Spirit hovers over and God speaks – Let there be light. Order arrives. Creation happens.
Webster’s 1828 dictionary states “Good order is the foundation of all good things.”
Take Action:
– Take a ‘prayer’ walk and ask God to speak into your current situation through your own environment. God used the change in season to Spring to open my eyes to the disorder that needed “spring cleaning” in my life.
- Is the ground dry and cracked? – God maybe saying let the water of My word refresh your soul.
- Is it getting colder? – God wants you to move closer to Him (the consuming fire) and rekindle your passion for His kingdom.
- Has the wind picked up? – watch for the winds of change, His Spirit blowing, clearing out rubbish in your life.
Step Two: Keep Focusing on the Eternal
Then doubts and fear rushed in. I don’t have time to spend spring cleaning! – I want to produce resources that will help my readers now! Wouldn’t I be wasting my time ordering my life? Wouldn’t I be missing out if I don’t act now and create and accomplish new goals! I chatted with God about this and He reminded me to keep my focus on the eternal.
In eternity there is no wasting of time because there is no time. My spirit is born again, and I have God’s Spirit living in me. I am already living in eternity now. In God’s reality I am already living outside of time. When I am walking, living and waiting in the Spirit, I can never run out of time, waste time or miss out. It’s the abundant life lived out. There is no wastage. Abundant means overflowing. There is no missing out – there is always enough.
These are the facts. This is the truth. I need to align my mind, will and emotions to think eternally – outside of time. It involves trusting God completely. Surrendering earthly time into His hands.
Take Action
God has one area for you to work on – one truth for you to grasp right now. For me, it’s to live and think eternally. To “set my mind on things that are above, not things that are on earth.” Colossians 3:2. At the moment as God is speaking to me – it is all filtered through setting my mind on heavenly eternal things.
- Ask God to show you what He wants you to learn and grow in this week.
- What is God working in and through you?
- What Scripture keeps popping up in your reading, in church, in podcasts?
- What word keeps repeating in your life?
- Once you know – then actively discover what God wants you to learn in that area.
FEEDBACK REQUEST: , please comment below and share your one truth that you think God is working on and in you right now, or how God is using your environment to speak to you. I love to receive your feedback
Keeping leaning into God and finish 2018 well
Rachel Larkin
Thanks Rachel. This really stood out to me. “When I am walking, living and waiting in the Spirit, I can never run out of time, waste time or miss out. It’s the abundant life lived out. There is no wastage. Abundant means overflowing. There is no missing out – there is always enough.”
I have always wrestled with the feeling that I’m missing out somehow, or that I should have ticked off a lot more things on my bucket list or to do list by the age of 45. For the longest time I’ve felt frustrated that doors of opportunity have not opened for me to pursue my dreams or fulfil my calling. It has really been churning inside me lately, but since the weekend I feel like I’m ready to let go and trust. Well at least for now unless I pick it up again and start fussing instead of trusting in God’s timing. Hopefully I’ve learned the lesson not to do that any more. Anyway…
During worship at SISTAS Conference last weekend I felt Holy Spirit give me an idea. My usual response would be to plunge headlong into it, but I feel God telling me to just sit with it for now. I have enough on my plate. I need to focus on that. Thanks to you I now have a new perspective. God has a calling and a destiny for me but so long as I complete it before I move on to the next destination, heaven in other words, then there is no rush, no missing out.
Thanks for sharing this.
Hey Lisa – thanks for your comment! I love that God has given you an idea – that is how it usually starts and most often there are seasons in between the idea planted and the grown fruitful tree. I think God loves to plant the idea first and let it percolate over time and them whamo – it’s game on. It’s the preparation time where we learn the most – my experience anyway. I just listened to a teaching today that encouraged me to know that I am not called to do everything but only the one thing that God has for us at this time and season. Keep in touch – I would love to know how you get on.