Moment By Moment Surrender

So, what do you do when things don’t go as expected, as imagined, or as you wanted them to go?

For those who long to walk in the Spirit and are called to go higher, I believe we are in a season of “moment-by-moment surrender.” 

“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.’ You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.” James 4:13-14

We may have grandiose plans and huge endeavors but clearly scripture tells us to not plan tomorrow for we have no idea what tomorrow will bring let alone what our life will be! 

I have been in a season of living “a day at a time” since God highlighted this verse to me over a year ago. Sure enough, I had plans for “tomorrow,” when “tomorrow” came, He shifted my plans dramatically to go to another state! 

This time as I sit in my home instead of being in another city as planned, I hear, “it is a moment-by-moment surrender season.” Surrender every day, every hour, every minute, and every breath. 

Though we are to plan and have a vision, we must hold these plans loosely. 

(Man with no vision shall perish)

We are called to have a vision, but we are also called to be led by the spirit and not walk by sight, or our own understanding (2 Cor 5:7, Prov 3:5). It is pivotal to heed his command step by step, hour by hour. This is the God who is omnipresent and holds the whole world in His hands. The God with higher and better plans for our lives who wants to lead us and guide us into our calling. 

One wrong step can delay or even take us out. Trust me, I know, recently I missed a step as I was walking. Fell, got abrasions on both hands and a knee. This caused delays in certain areas of my life. It could have been worse, but my point is, if we take one wrong step, even if it is the right step but it is a minute too early or minute too late, the timing will make it wrong and depending on what we are facing, it can mean life or death. Last year I had to drive across the country. There was a moment at night when I got sleepy, so I stopped at a rest stop to take a nap. This was a moment-by-moment, well moment. Unable to sleep I was about to go to the restroom then leave, instantly I hear in my spirit, “DO NOT GET OUT AND DO NOT MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN.”

It was a warning! Sure enough two men park near me and I felt the darkness hover. This was a surrender moment to heed His voice that was life or death. If I had gone with my flesh (needing the restroom) I might not be here writing this. A minute-by-minute and step-by-step walk.

A moment-by-moment surrender season. 

We must learn to walk with Him moment-by-moment. Surrendering our flesh, our will, our time, and our resources to His will.  

So, what do you do when things don’t go as expected, as imagined, or as you wanted them to go? We trust. We surrender and we trust. We trust His plans for us and for our lives. We trust His perspective is higher, because it is, and learn to be lead by Him.

The Lord has great and mighty plans not just for you individually but also as the Body of Christ collectively. The only way to walk into His plans is this moment-by-moment surrender. The Great I Am knows best from beginning to end. 

New Hope

Fog is lifted

Clarity is here

Hard truths

Bitter tears

Wipe them clean 

The King is here

Face to face

Heart to heart

Gazing eyes

Love unconditional

Purity and grace

A smile

A surrendering kiss

There is still a future 

There is still hope

A new day dawns.

Graves into gardens

The Lord says it is time.

Time for graves to turn into Gardens.

It's been long enough now.

It is time.

It is time for what the enemy tried to kill, for what he left as dead to come back to life, it is time to rise and shine now.

It is time for the graves to turn into gardens.

It is time for the dead things to come to life now.

Far too long has death kept you at bay.

It is time to rise and shine back to life.

It is time for the ashes to become beauty,

For from those ashes you will become beautiful.

It is time for my garden within you to flourish

It is time to let your pedals reach for the sun.

For you to blossom and bloom.

It is time to shine

It is time to let those pedals twirl and dance with joy again.

Death has been overcome, shout, dance, sing.

The ashes have become beauty,

Beauty has become a garden.

Graves are under the ashes,

Ashes under the beauty

And beauty is a garden.

A garden full of color,

Full of joy

Full of dancing

Full of laughter

Full of life.

Flourish, my garden, flourish.

A call to stillness

In this season, there is a call to stillness. Changes and transitions, uprooting and replanting are happening in this hour, which can be very unsettling. We want to know we hear the voice of God and that we heard correctly.

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve had a prompting to read a chapter in my book, The Fullness In Him where I talk about being still.

The sentences that were highlighted are the following: “His stillness silences the deafening storm, opening the ears of our understanding.” And “The only reason He wants us to be still is so we may hear His voice. In hearing his voice, we may hear His plans for us and His instruction.”

It is a time to remove distractions, remove all other voices and get focused on Peace. It is imperative we hear His plans as He is positioning His people for His purposes to see great wonders and expand His kingdom.

Before this can happen, we must be still and know He is God. We must be still and allow Him to be God, the One who sees every soul, the One who sees every tree, the one who knows the whole earth. We are so limited to our own understanding, thinking we may have amazing plans, yet He is the One with bigger and better plans which we are unable to walk out without the stillness.

In the stillness He silences every lie and every fear. In the stillness we must allow Him to heal the broken places, the places we have not wanted to look at and the places we have not yet allowed Him in. As He heals we become pure vessels strong in Him, not holding back and not giving fear any space.
It is in the stillness we will be filled with perfect love, we will be filled with perfect peace which surpasses all understanding, and we will once again hear the living waters trickling within our souls. 

In the stillness we come alive with joy and expectancy for His plans as we lay down our own.

It is a call to hear His voice declare victory over your life and lead us exactly where He wants us to be.

Heed the call to stillness, you will only be revived, refreshed and realigned to your original creation.

“Dwell in the stillness of silence, the sound of silence—this is where peace resides!”