I am walking a step closer to my destiny. As mentioned before, I allowed the enemy to oppress me with fear for a long time and I am finally coming out...walking on the Word.
It started out as us just being late for church (as usual...a habit that MUST be broken). It so happened to be my cousin's birthday and we were taking him and my youngest brother to church. Well by the time we were ready, it was about 12:50...church was just about over. Mind you, it had been a while since they had been to church so I felt extremely bad because as the oldest, I should have been a better leader than I was being at the time. We almost didn't go. Dre had his brother's game that he wanted to get to, and we were going to settle for reading a scripture in the car...sad. Well I got on FB mobile, (not intentionally looking for a church) and my sorority sister had a status that led me to want to find out where this church was. Note that the status mentioned nothing about the church-just a simple statement "walk on water". We pulled up the directions on GPS and took the ride. I did not know what I was in for. Who knew that the sermon to be preached was going to have the exact same message (stepping out of your comfort zone and into faith) as the one from my church ? "Was it a conspiracy?" Lies from the enemy...It's not like there was a preacher convention and they sent out an urgent message, "THE MIKELL'S ARE COMING! PROMPT THE MESSAGE!"
As if the Lord knew the doubt that still overcame me about the message, 2 more subsequent trips to the church..the message was still the same!!! You would think I would get it by now! Well not until about 3:14pm on this day, did it hit me. It's time for me to step out on faith!!! I'm long overdue! Some say, "Well it's a recession going on" " that may not be the wisest thing to do" but this is what I say to those people: MY GOD IS GREATER THAN THE RECESSION. MY GOD IS GREATER THAN ALL MY PROBLEMS. And finally, I am leaving it in HIS HANDS. I am moving in to all that God has called me to be, and YES it is a process...and I'm sure more problems will come. I mean, right now I feel like I'm alone. I have a few friends that have kinda hung in there...but what God has been trying to get through my thick head for years is to stop depending on others for your joy and confide in ME! Silly T. lol. It's hard turning from a "comfortable" lifestyle, but clearly when you grow, so do your obstacles...but I am not defeated. I may not understand all of the things he does and allows to happen but HE is definitely working on me. Although
it was not a part of our plan, it was a part of HIS plan...
"Lord, if it's you," Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water."
"Come" He said. Matthew 14:28-29a
Stay tuned...
Tiara Andréan
