(Almost) Every morning before work I pray for God to soften my heart and open my eyes to what He wants to show me today.  I ask Him to teach me something and if He has a word for someone else to give me the boldness to speak and the words to say.

Whenever I do this amazing things happen.  I’m telling you… “Ask and you shall receive… knock and it shall be opened unto you…” as long as you are asking HIS will and not to prove something to yourself.

This morning I texted my good friend/sister in Christ:
“I prayed this morning like I try to every day… teach me… guide me… soften my heart… give me words…

The man I gave Isaiah 43 to and he keeps it in his car…
For a few weeks I’d been wanting to tell him Ezekiel 37 ‘breathing life into these dry bones’, but I never did because I didn’t want to just preach without being asked.  Anyway, today he asked me to pray for him again and told me a circumstance.  I told him how I’d been wanting to tell him that verse but never did so I did.  He asked again as he was walking out and I told him I couldn’t wait to see what comes from his situation.

It makes it seem so stupid to think you lack anything and worry because “my God will supply all my need according to His riches in Christ”.  It may not be what you want or expect, but gees He always shows up right where you need Him and don’t think it would be.  Right at this desk.  I’ve gotten to see so much and talk to so many people.  This little job.  Mustard seeds.”

Her response was, “RIGHT.  That’s what I said last week.  Like, you are there to witness almost because He is bringing you so many people left and right.”

Last week when I wrote Christian or not a Christian…You know what they say when you assume I had texted her that I didn’t understand what was going on.  ‘Why am I still here’.

Her: “I don’t know, but I even offered you a job and you said no… you were supposed to be there.”

Today, I am so thankful for finally “getting it”.  It doesn’t matter what you’re doing.  Maybe you’re where you’re supposed to be just to let your light shine.  You don’t have to be doing anything spectacular except to love people right where you are.  You don’t have to understand it you just have to be obedient.  I’ve been at my job for 5 years and I could tell countless stories of how God showed up and the things I’ve gotten to see while the world just sees me at a low wage dead end job.  In this season I’ve learned to trust God and I’ve gotten to experience the whole world right from my little desk.  I’ve gotten to know people and love them.  I’ve gotten to share with people and also see people reject Christ.  I really do have a good job with a good work family and am blessed for it.  I mean, take advantage of customer service… I even learned how to cook a turkey from the elders. 😀

Cracks me up… Remember when this was a food blog… 🙂
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One day a customer told me this was where God had me and it was my ministry because I am always talking to people and encouraging them.

I was like, “What…I just need a job.”  I had never thought of it that way.

***It’s not MY ministry it’s always God’s ministry, but I am blessed to be used.***

It’s funny how you can fight to get your life started and “move forward” when God has been working the whole time and had you right where you were always supposed to be.  The only difference is now you see it.

Maybe, sometimes, the miracle is you and it’s just by being who God made you to be.

Bloom where you are planted.

If you got what you prayed for…

How will you find them? What if they’re looking for you?

‘The God Who Stays’ – Matthew West

“My soul finds rest in Him alone; my salvation comes from Him” – A season of rest

Casting Crowns – Nobody Youtube Link

“Why You ever chose me has always been a mystery.
All my life I’ve been told I belong at the end of the line with all the other Not-Quites… With all the Never-Get-It-Rights…
But it turns out we’re the ones You’ve been looking for all this time.

Moses had stage fright and David brought a rock to a sword fight.
You picked 12 outsiders nobody would’ve chosen and You changed the world.
Well, the moral of the story is everybody’s got a purpose so when I hear that devil start talking to me, saying “Who do you think you are” I say…

I’m just a nobody trying to tell everybody all about Somebody who saved my soul. Ever since You rescued me You gave my heart a song to sing.
I’m living for the world to see nobody but Jesus.

So let me go down in history as another blood-bought faithful member of the family…
And if they all forget my name, well, that’s fine with me.

I’m living for the world to see Nobody but Jesus.”