Fixing Your Brakes... w/God
There's a season for everything...
Season for sowing,
Season for growing,
Season for reaping,
Season for waiting...
Ahh, WAITING...
That's practically a cuss word in the business world.
WAIT?!
For what?
Meaning, do nothing?
NOT take action?
Sit?
Still?
Like, quiet?
Isn't that stupid?
Isn't that unproductive?
Isn't that foolish?
To the world, yes...
But NOT to God.
"But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong."
Here's a RED FLAG...
If you're driving,
Pushing,
Striving,
Struggling cuz things aren't coming together...
So you think.
More effort,
More grinding,
Try more stuff....
That's a RED FLAG.
You're trying by your own might,
Where's God in your equation?
It's time to set it down,
And WAIT,
For God.
The top priority is to SEEK God,
And NOT move until He moves you,
So you don't mess up more than you have.
At some point,
You need to learn how to STOP.
S-T-O-P.
Do you know how to STOP?
When's the last time you pumped the BRAKES?
Do your brakes work?
When's the last time you used your brakes and STOPPED?
When's the last time you truly WAITED on God to respond.
(This does NOT mean a quick pause... hear nothing... go!)
"The Lord is good to those who WAIT for him,
to the soul who seeks him."
"WAIT for the Lord; be strong,
and let your heart take courage;
WAIT for the Lord!"
"I WAIT for the Lord, my soul WAIT,
and in his word I hope;"
The pandemic for entrepreneurs right now is our BROKEN BRAKES.
We don't know how to stop.
We only know go.
It's like speeding downhill in a car without BRAKES and you're hitting cars, trees, roadkill on your way down because your BRAKES are BROKEN.
Without BRAKES that work, we will continue to run this rat race called life because the ONLY way we can get OUT of it is by SEEKING and FOLLOWING Holy Spirit.
He's our ONLY way out.
Here are the symptoms to look out for...
- Chaos and confusion surrounds,
- Lack of order and peace,
- Anxiety instead of joy,
- Stress instead of surrender.
- You feel the need to muscle things through, (human strength)
- Instead of flow with the spirit. (God's strength)
- You feel pressured to accomplish,
- But not on God's time line, it's your own.
- You feel guilt or shame when you rest,
- Even if your mind and body need it.
- You keep putting your spouse and kids on the back burner,
(cuz if you could just get this ONE thing going...)
Stop it. That's not God. - God would never put your family relationships before work,
- He would never give you a lifestyle that tanks your health,
- He is big enough where He doesn't have to sacrifice relationship and health for work or money.
Take a breather.
You need to fix your BRAKES with God.
When you do you can...
Stop the hustle that is rooted in FEAR,
Stop the grind that you mistake for PURPOSE,
Stop the sacrifice that God never asked you to make... your family and health.
Instead, replace the urge to use your own strength with God's words...
"The Lord will fight for you,
and you have only to be silent."
"You shall not fear them,
for it is the Lord your God who fights for you."
"If God is for us, who can be against us?"
STOP.
PAUSE.
SEEK GOD.
4 Steps to Seeking God:
1) Write down your question and ASK God that question.
2) WAIT. LISTEN. BE STILL. Let the silence hang for at least a few minutes before moving on. Let it hang longer if you can. Just allow your mind to quiet down to hear God's whispers.
3) Write down ANYTHING you see, sense or feel. Keep LISTENING and writing down.
4) Ask follow-up questions and WRITE DOWN anything you see, sense or feel. Keep asking more follow-up questions until you feel complete.
Take your time in all of this.
Do this daily for 1 week straight.
The same question.
The same method.
Review all the answers you have collected after 1 week and see what God has been telling you. Filter out the outlier from the main message that holds true. That's ACTIVELY SEEKING God for answer. Here's a worksheet for this if you want (download here).
Wohoooo!!!
Have fun!
Cheers to fixing your brakes so you can STOP, SEEK and HEAR God.
Have an amazing week!
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