Saturday, I did my first training conference for a Christian home based business. They recorded it live and they did not edit it. Which is really good. And I rocked the house, if I do say so myself. I was able to share my testimony and my whole heart with them. I was honored to be among those that would be considered kings in the Old Testament of the Bible, and in the midst of them, there was me. Just starting out and in a position to where I would have to work harder than most to get where I would like to be. The amazing thing is, I have a reason to get up in the morning. I have hope, and a passion to get what I need to get. Not at the cost of losing myself, but at the cost of not finding myself. The thing with this business is everything is laid out in front of you and it is not shoving anything down your throat. Obviously it is network marketing, but the product sells itself because it does what it says it is going to do. It is just weeding out, who I want to work with and who I do not want to work with. I want people with drive and passion that will work a little harder to get what they want. And we all want FREEDOM in every area of our lives. Don’t we? I do most definitely. God did not create us to be sick and tired of being sick and tired. He created us to succeed and prosper just as our souls prosper. And that is just what I am going to do. And in the process, the VISION is coming alive in me. I am seeing the hope, the future and an expected end to the dry season. I am surrounded by people that have something that I need and I have something they need. The saying is true: If you want to soar with eagles then you have to stop hanging around the turkeys. To be around people that you can learn from, in every area of life. There is wisdom among those who have gone before you. That is what I want and it is what I need. The fact that I can do my work from home is amazing and it is going to give me the financial control over my income. I do not have to live in captivity anymore by working for someone else and making them millions of dollars off of my talents, my gifts, my creative ideas and the wisdom given to me. God created me to be much more than I am right now. And I have decided that I am going to be everything that God created me to be and know that He is walking this life with me through every step that I take. He is opening doors right now for me to walk through with confidence instead of wondering if this is what He has for me.
I think because this opportunity did not present itself in the way I thought it would, and it didn’t look the way I thought it would in my finite brain, I just might have missed an opportunity because I could not get outside my brain. We have to be mindful of who we are listening to? Are these people that are surrounding us in their comfort zone too much? Do they get outside themselves and give to those who are in need? Are they successful? Is anything that they speak about us or to us positive or negative? Are their words full of Life or full of death? When someone says that you shouldn’t do this or that, are they doing it or not doing it? Are they going to pay your bills if you don’t get a job? Seriously? It is easy for someone to say get a job, but when there are no doors opened to you then what? Are they going to say, well we will pray for you or are they going to be an extension of God’s hands and feet? If you have answered no to any of these questions, then you are probably hanging around a bunch of turkeys.
I once heard, that if you look at your inner circle of friends that your future can be summed up by the expectation of those people. If their expectation is to never get outside their box then, most likely they will not encourage you to get out of yours. This is not a picture I wanted to see, but if you ask God to remove the blinders from your own eyes then He will show you. Honestly, you may not like what you see. Different perspective may be indeed what you need. Equally yoked has a whole new meaning for me these last weeks and I am severely, dry in my yoking. This sent me on a journey seeking more of Him. More of His perspective, His will, His abundant life that He promised and I believe I am just starting to walk in that abundance. I was reminded today that I have to be careful of who I share my life and circumstances with. Even in my victories and triumphs, I am walking it out alone. Encouraged by complete strangers, yet I feel more at home with them as if we have known each other forever. I needed to be reminded today: “Do not surround yourself with negative, cynical, critical, nay saying, small minded, or jealous people. They will drain the life from you even when they think they are ‘correcting you’.” - Joel Osteen
The thing is, if we never take a risk and step out of the boat on faith then God can never truly give you abundance because we are stopping His abundant blessing. God wants a relationship, not a robot. He wants you to trust Him. The saying I heard recently is completely true, God will always give you more than you can handle, but He will never give you more than He can handle. In this, if He only gave us what we could handle then what would be the purpose of needing Him? He wants you to SOAR, He wants you to LIVE in HIS FREEDOM!!
Luke 6:38 – Give and it shall be given to you. Your gift will return to you in full – pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.
Matthew 12:33 – A tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad.
Proverbs 13:20 – He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
