S5 E9: 3 Questions To Ask Yourself at the Start of 2021

Happy new year friends!

Here we are in the first full week of 2021 and I don’t know what the view is from your life’s window right now...but it’s already looking pretty eventful from my view.

As usual for this time of year lot of talk about goals and resolutions and word for the year...and if you’ve been around a while you know my thoughts about these things...you have a word rise up in you for the start of a new year GREAT…. You have ZERO positive or productive words rising up… still great!

You alive you’re here…

And that’s what I want to talk about today.

Having a word and a focus is great but it can never do for you what you need to do for yourself.

And there are some questions that have risen up in me that I feel really compelled to share with you…

Questions instead of declarations might seem a little odd at the start of a new year but hang with me…

Not sure how it is for you... but for me personally, I typically don’t struggle with high risks and dreaming big.

And that has taken me to certain levels in my life…

And with each new level of growth and busting through comfort zones it doesn’t take much time to realize I’m still dealing with “controlled  growth”

Pushing myself to feel just enough discomfort while still holding tightly to the reigns of control.

What is it we’re scared of?

Because I, like you can write down all the lofty words and goals at the start of the new year but do we really want to ask and answer the questions within ourselves to even have the possibility of obtaining these things?!?

And I used the word goal which means “the object of a person’s ambition or effort. An aim or desired result”

But instead of the word goal, I prefer to word desire.

Desire to me is so much more personal. 
Desire is something I feel in my core.

The dictionary def of desire is:

A strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen.

And as a believer in Christ, I believe that the God of the universe is the one that put those specific desires within me!

Psalm 37:4-6 Take delight in the Lord and he will give you your heart’s desires.

Commit everything you do to the Lord.

Trust Him, and he will help YOU!!

But can I let you in on something I have found to be true over the years?

As I have trusted God and walked out the desires of my heart

They have taken different shapes …

The core desire has remained the same but exactly what that looks like has changed and looked different than what I expected it to look like.

This leads me to the next question…

Do you trust God with the desires in your heart?

I mean really trust him????

And I get it 

Trust can  feel super scary

Trust means letting loose of the tight grip of control that

We are under the illusion we actually have ;)

Trust means going all in and trusting God with the results and the outcomes…

And the last question…

What are you protecting yourself from?

Rejection, hurt, pain,

What is it?

Because trying to protect ourselves is what we are doing when we hold back and don’t fully surrender to the life God created us to live.

I mentioned in one of the previous episodes when I was talking about being pregnant in the natural and being pregnant with purpose that a lot of the discomfort we experience in life comes from holding in and hiding inside of us what was never meant to be contained.

Those seeds of all that you were created to bring forth in the world are meant to come forth out of you.

Your life has the ability to bring forth an expression of the glory and goodness of God that only you can.

What is on the other side of that self-protection for you?

What freedom have you yet to walk in because you’ve been more consumed with the opinions of everyone around you more than the one that gives you your very breath!

I read this verse in Isaiah this morning and to me, it went right along with these thoughts…

It said “                       

I will walk the blind by an unknown way and guide them on paths they’ve never traveled. I will smooth their difficult road and make their dark mysteries bright with light. These are things I will do for them, for I will never abandon my beloved ones.

I love how that verse starts out stating “I WILL WALK”

He’s wanting to take us somewhere we’ve never been, a path we’ve never traveled.

2020 was a year of clarity and growth for me in so many ways which was wonderful and yet with that comes new levels of trust…

New levels of unknown ways on paths never traveled.

But here’s the thing that I want to remind you and I of today…

He’s the one that will guide us and make dark mysteries burn with light.

Are you here for that?!?