Hello First name / my dear friend,

I've been thinking about how I can better serve you here with the space I take up in your inbox. I want to be able to give you something that adds value and encouragement to your heart. So, I want to try something new this week, just for you who are my email subscribers (and if you like it, please take a moment to reply to this email so I can gauge whether or not this is something I should continue doing). 

Are you ready for this? The working title is the "Weekend Rest + Reflect”. It is simply some thoughts and encouragement from my heart to yours, where I can share more personally what God has been teaching my heart this week. All the blog and YouTube links from this week that are normally in the weekly emails will still be in this email, they will just be at the end. 

This past week, I had two different opportunities to write for other larger Christian platforms. As the first deadline approached, I felt a swell of insecurity build up inside of me. I hadn't committed to being a part of the series, but I was allowed to submit something by the deadline if I wanted to be a part of it. I wrote the post, but as the deadline came closer and closer, I decided to not send it in.

I felt like an imposter. I didn't feel ready for such a large audience to see my work. But even more than that, I felt like “who am I to tell my story”? Honestly y'all, the lies got to me. 

As the second deadline loomed in the horizon, I felt the same insecurity begin to creep along the edges of my heart. As I recognized this pattern, I began to wrestle with it and then God dropped a phrase into my heart that I hope you and I will never forget. 

“If God has already called you to do something, you do not need to wait for the permission or approval of others. You do not need to be “invited” where God has already called you.”

To some, this might seem really explanatory. But for me and maybe for you too, I needed this reminder that because God has called me into this space; to share my (really His) story, and to minister to your heart, I am allowed to show up in the full authority of God. Whenever we step in to our calling, all the power of heaven is behind us. 

I don't know where you are at right now or if you are wresting over something you know that God has called you to. But whenever you start to feel insecure or like an imposter, remember whose you are and who you are. Which reminds me, I did take that second opportunity and hopefully, I'll be able to share it with you soon ;)

“But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God's instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you – from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted” (1 Peter 2:9, MSG).

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10, ESV).

Rest in the knowledge that you are chosen, deeply loved, and called by God. He, His call, and His anointing are your qualifiers for what He has called you to do. Step out in faith and obedience. 

Do you find yourself hesitating to step into something you believe you are called to do? If so, why do you think that is? How does knowing all the power of heaven is behind your obedience enable you to take that step of faith to follow God's lead? How has God enabled and equipped you to follow His lead in the past?

Lord Jesus,

Thank you for all that you do on my behalf. Thank you for your salvation and your constant work within me. Thank you that you have already prepared in advance good works for me to do. I ask that you give me boldness and courage to step into where you have called me. Give me grace when I hesitate, give me strength whenever lies try to keep me idle. Thank you that your power is at work within me and the full power of heaven is behind me. 

In your precious name, 

Amen.

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