I recently had to do some HANDY work around my house! Leaky bathtub faucet, broken sink stopper, and a couple of malfunctioning light switches. There is a sense of JOY that comes to me when I am able to accomplish a seemingly IMPOSSIBLE task...at least in some misguided male mindsets.
I'm so glad I took the INITIATIVE and FOLLOWED THROUGH with OBTAINING a diploma in Property Maintenance and Repair a few years ago when I was IN-BETWEEN positions. It has proven to be VERY USEFUL and a major BLESSING...as a HOME Owner!
See after a few BAD episodes with some so called "good" handymen, I DECIDED I wanted to LEARN the skill for myself...in hopes of NEVER having to be taken advantage of again for Home Repair!
BELIEVE me FAITH WORKS...once you MOVE by it!
I BELIEVED and TRUSTED God was a GOOD God...He Provided WITHOUT FAIL...once I SHARED my frustrations, my HEART with Him and ASKED Him to HELP me!
Only by the Grace of God was I actually one of the FEW women to complete the program as well as be AWARDED TOP Trades-person for my GRADUATING class. But the BEST PART is that it was ALL at NO COST to me except for SHOWING UP and putting in the WORK needed!
Now isn't that just like GOD to take the most UNLIKELY student and make her the HEAD and NOT the tail among LIKELY candidates and PROVIDE the money for the program all in one?
You too are meant to SHOW the Glory of God through your MOVE OF FAITH! What has YOU frustrated? What would YOU like to SEE take place? What FAITH MOVES do YOU need to take to make it happen? God has brought it to YOUR ATTENTION so YOU can DO SOMETHING about it...but will YOU MOVE on it???
Again, I say to You...BELIEVE me FAITH WORKS...once you MOVE by it!
LIFE LESSON: NEVER LET MONEY dictate your DREAMING, LEARNING & GROWING...GOD is SURE TO PROVIDE it...along as it is part of His Plan for You and will BLESS OTHERS!
LOVE...has FAITH that MOVES! ALH, Always Loving Him/Her'
"And LET the Beauty and Delight-fulness and Favor of the Lord our God be upon us; confirm and establish the work of our hands—yes, the work of our hands, confirm and establish it. (Psalm 90:17 AMP)
Hindsight is 20/20 Vision! I think back to the day I became a mother with my little one in my arms happy and afraid of all that was now required of me to raise up my newborn. Believing, I would make it because many had gone before me and done it...but so naive to the steps and plans that would be needed to come through SUCCESSFUL.
Well, now my little one is in her 20's and a mother to her own little one, and I see history REPEATING itself because of the things I didn't quite KNOW would be important later down this life journey...BUT GOD! With all the mistakes I made, all the lack of WISDOM, and going it alone without consulting God on many of my decisions...life experience has TAUGHT me that God was there all along GUIDING me unknowingly to get to this place now that I can HELP those going where I've been. Many will listen and many will not but if I can make an IMPACT in just one single moms life it will be all worth it for the JOY of knowing that others will not need to go down the HARD road I took because I CHOSE to do it my way instead of GOD'S WAY!
So, Single Mom today I say with ALL KNOWING that you must LAY DOWN your pride, your distrust, and your need to prove to yourself or others that you GOT THIS...and ASK for the help you need! It's all a deception to keep you TRAPPED in your belief that you are alone, when in actuality you have MANY that will help you if only you would HUMBLE yourselves to ASK!
Yes ASK...ASK GOD to lead you to people you can trust, ASK GOD to strengthen you to do what is normally not comfortable for you to do, and ASK GOD to supply all your needs and then be WILLING to accept the package He may decide to send your HELP Gift! It may look like a brown paper bag when it arrives but it will be a DIAMOND WITHIN the rough! A Diamond that will help to bring forth the BRILLIANCE that is needed for you to become the BEAUTY God intends for you to be for your children, your future husband, your community, yourself, and most of all for HIM. God is not done with you yet mom, so don't you GIVE UP or GIVE IN on what may LOOK like a hard place right now...HOLD ON...The RAINBOW is coming but it's always after the rain!
