How often do you forget that God has blessed you and chosen you? How many times have you felt like you were over looked or rejected? How many times has the enemy gotten in your ear about who you are? If any of your answers were ” sometimes, often, too many times, or a lot of times; then this blog is for you! Can I be honest with you? This blog is for me too!

It has been 7 years since my last blog. 7 years! You know what the number 7 represents in the bible? It represents the completeness or fullness. I have come full circle now. In these 7 years, I have felt rejected, forgotten about, talked about, left behind, tolerated, less than, and so many other things. I have felt so many emotions from sadness to hopelessness. I tried to encourage myself multiple times, but it just seemed like I could not get up. My life was spiraling out of control spiritually and naturally, I just could not keep up. It felt like everyone INCLUDING God constantly overlooked me. I found myself asking God, “When will it be my turn? When will people notice my heart and treat me right? Why do these things keep happening? When will I be a wife and mother?” I felt the need to control and get in the way of what GOD had planned for me. I acted like I could solve all my problems by myself. You know what that led to? NOTHING BUT DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY. I know that I am not the only one that has felt that way man or woman. I know now that I have not been alone this whole time. Did I stay down? YES FOR A SEASON….but I realized in the last 3 weeks that God has not forgotten about me when I thought he had. I learned that sometimes God will uproot you and place you EXACTLY where you need to be in HIS timing and not my own.

Today, I was watching a sermon by Heather Lindsey titled, “Are You Feeling Weary?” As I was watching, I realized that I have been Jonah for these last 7 years. The things that God has been putting in my heart, what He has been telling me to do; I have been disobedient. I was running from God because of all the rejection I felt and internalized. If you are not familiar with the story of Jonah in the bible, God gave him an assignment that he decided to run from. In a nutshell, instead of doing what God told him to do, he chose to be disobedient. He was disobedient to the point that he ended up in the belly of a whale for 3 days until he decided to finally stop running. Heather Lindsey said in her sermon that you can affect the lives of other people when you are in disobedience and out of position. Over the years I have constantly been disobedient and I constantly ran. I am a writer, an exhorter, and a minister’s wife all of which I pray AGAINST and ran from for years can you believe that? I can. The enemy is crafty isn’t he? Your mindset and thoughts can stand in your way if you don’t renew your mind.

God has been reminding me DAILY of WHO I AM IN HIM, how he blessed me and chose me for such a time as this. I am here to remind you today. It will NEVER be about what other people say or the enemy. It will ALWAYS be about what God says about you. GOD SAYS, you are chosen and blessed!! Don’t believe me? Let’s take a look:

“As holy people whom God has chosen and loved, be sympathetic, kind, humble, gentle, and patient.”-Colossians 3:12

“You are a holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. He chose you to be His own special possession out of all the nations on earth.”- Deuteronomy 7:6

“Taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the person who takes refuge in Him.” Psalm 34:8.

Choose to believe what God says about you! YOU ARE BLESSED AND CHOSEN.