I have learned that when people see your success they always want to know how you did it. That probably is the number one question I get asked, and when I start to share I get a mixed reaction. Some people think your nuts, that I must have lost my mind and just don’t want to tell them my secret to my success. The truth of the matter is I made it in 1 investment, not an investment in real estate or the stock market like most make it. The investment that changed my life and the lives around me was the investment I made in my walk with God. To know who he really is, his ways, why I was created. To fellowship with him, make him a friend that is closer than a brother. To know who I was in him and why he made me, what he wanted for me. To start to become more like him in all my ways and start to champion his causes, caused my entire person to morph into a beautiful woman of faith. To learn to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and then to be a doer of what the Holy Spirit was saying to me regardless if it made sense to the carnal part of me. Noah after he believed what was told to him he started the work he was asked to do, the people around him thought he was crazy. Then it started to rain and that rain gave proof of what was to take place. Noah was obedient to God about building the Ark before one drop of rain fell. Noah was a man of devoted faith and was willing to do whatever was being asked of him even though all those around him thought he must have lost his mind. When I started to press into my relationship with God, I had to learn to be still to quite my mind. By doing so I was able to hear his voice loud and clear, the promises he was showing me, and the things he was telling me I was to do was mind-blowing. When those around me would ask or see the way I was moving they thought I was crazy, just like it was with Noah. The more time I put into my relationship with God the easier my life got. The more fruitful my life got I found that my marriage had new life in it. My children started to be obedient to me, and the tenderness returned to it. I could go into public and not have a meltdown or have a attitude of entitlement. I learned to listen to the Lord on what words to say or how much to tip. How to interact with the people the Holy Spirit would whisper to me to help. What I found was the people around me were just as hurt, lost, and broken as I once was. I started to show the love of God to all that I would come in contact with. The more I did, the more I wanted to do because of the peace and joy I found in it. I had never encountered so many tears over a simple $20 tip. I was shown by the Holy Spirit that people are hungry for God and for good things. See only good things come from God, the scripture teaches us that. So the more I invested into my walk with God the more he would show me and confirm to me, that we are blessed with unending wealth, and that my children’s children would eat from the fruit of my work. The work they eat from is simply loving people and following this scripture verse “So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the family of the faith.” I found that before I ever read that verse The Holy Spirit changed my heart and my being into exactly that verse and gave me the vision of why that 1 investment was the only investment I would ever have to make. God is the same yesterday today and forevermore, he is unchanging and if you want the same results as in the great Son’s of God all you have to do is do what they did. I am a 20th-century example that God’s promises are still true today all you have to do is invest in him your life will never be the same!
This morning while spending time with the Lord the Holy Spirit whispered the word COURAGE to me. That is what has been missing the last few days in my walk.