2019 is here and there is so much change coming this year, I can feel it!
Change that won’t be easy to comprehend because it may very well affect the trajectory of my life…But I heard the Lord telling me to keep moving forward.
2019 is the year of moving forward from the messy rejection, negativity, past hurts, etc… that were left in 2018 and moving into new things.
I have heard people say “your twenties are the best years of your life”. The time you have the most opportunity to make choices that will most impact your future. Honestly, that is the scariest thing ever. This chapter of my life has been rough and honestly confusing, but… Fear won’t detour me from walking with purpose into what God has for me.
FORWARD is my word for the year… moving forward, accepting change (growth), and curving negativity. No matter how difficult it is.
Forward (def.):
Onward so as to make progress,
directed or faced toward the front,
related to or concerned with the future,
to help advance or promote.
I would find my self unable to move forward with grace because I would be stuck on what didn’t work out and I would get caught in the fear of not doing well in what I am moving towards.
“Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”
-Proverbs 19: 21
I am learning that what I envision for my life may not be in God’s will. It could very well be my own will. The pride of chasing after what I want in life and not fully consulting God first left me feeling like I was walking blind at times. I’ve gotten to the point where I am tired of that crippling feeling; the feeling of not being able to move forward with clear vision.
So, When rejection comes..move forward. When the enemy attacks… move forward. When God says no… move forward because a greater opportunity is coming. When that opportunity comes… move FORWARD.
As I let go and move forward, I am grabbing hold of God and advancing into the unimagined in 2019. I believe he has been preparing me and providing the provision needed to advance into his will for my life.
He has equipped and given me the gifts and skills needed to live a purpose-filled life to be used in anything.
Ways I am moving forward in this year:
No pondering things of the past—
keeping my heart posture in a forward position
to see the good things
Focusing on God
Gracefully move on to the next
Embracing the truth about who God says I am.
Priorities (discipline)
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”-Isaiah 43:18-19
This scripture makes it so clear to me that I’d be a fool to not see the new things God is doing. Focusing on the past only blocks my vision from what God has right in front of me.
I encourage you this year to move forward into the next step(s) God has laid out for you. It may look scary and uncomfortable, but the path you chose was never made to be easy.
“13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
-Matthew 7: 13-14
… are you willing to move forward?
–Love, Shardea’ Nicole
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