God heard my cry.....

It has been quite awhile since I’ve contemplated sharing with you what God is doing in my life and my heart because to be quite honest, being vulnerable is costly. It puts a big mark on my back as if I needed any help in that department! But I also wanted to share that being vulnerable can also be immensely rewarding.

Due to a series of events I had pulled away from most things that would cause the hurt to deepen and widen. I knew that if I stayed the course I had found myself in, that I would become bitter and end up hurting the heart of God. Then when I thought things couldn’t get much worse, I found myself spiraling even farther because of circumstances with a passion that I thoroughly enjoy.

I found myself beginning to hunger and desire God’s Word like I hadn’t for a long time. Not that I had ever stopped, but this desire was like craving a Big Mac while dining on a hamburger from the Dollar Menu. I picked up a bible study that I had started but not finished and I began praying and asking God to bring along side me another woman that was hungry for more.

 Then one day my phone rang, and there was a female voice on the other end asking me if I’d be willing to study God’s Word with her and be an accountability partner. If you know me any at all, you know that I detest confrontation. I find with confrontation it is often times about “feelings”, “control”, “manipulation”; really trying to get who ever to do life the way YOU want them to do life. I believe that God intended confrontation be done with love, grace, mercy, gentleness and only after covering it immensely in prayer! Yet, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that God was bringing this Lady to me and answering my prayer. Lady, thank you for becoming a wonderful friend to me!

Father God, thank You for hearing my heart and providing me in this season of life a wonderful woman that yearns for the deeper things of You. May we cause Your heart to be glad and thankful for this partnership that we believe You created. Father, we desire to be(come) women of integrity, esteeming our mates, providing a home that is filled with Jesus. May we hold in confidence the things that we share, that we continue to invest in one another, that we would apply Your Word to our circumstances and live in victory. That this friendship be ever lasting and grateful as you grow us into the women You created us to be! In Christ’s Name, Amen!

 

Until next time, may we be found moving to Higher Ground,

Yolanda