I have been in a merry mood since yesterday! For like 3 months now, God has been speaking to me about making videos to share what He’s giving me but if you know me, I prefer to just write it and not deal with the dramas of video. I enjoy working from the background I tell Him, and I don’t know how to do this video thing (without saying I was too comfortable not knowing that I didn’t even want to try or learn.) Even friends have tried to encourage me but I just dismiss it with, “Apart from sharing that of others’, have you ever seen me and video together anywhere on planet earth? I don’t do videos please!”

Our launch date was supposed to be September 1 2021 so as usual, He gave me the Word and I wrote and posted – job completed. Also on August 31, I got this offer starting September 1, which I accepted for no reason except that God wanted me to. You know that kind of opportunity that comes up and it’s like, “You want this?” “Sure!” I said but that night, I thought and prayed through it, ready to let go if God said so but instead, He encouraged me to take it. I didn’t mind too because it wouldn’t detract from my other commitments and wouldn’t be stressful.

I showed up watching for why God brought me there and couldn’t find anything! In fact, the friend who gave my name called much later and asked if I enjoyed it and I held back from complaining but simply told her how bored I was. If you know me, you’ll know I’m never bored: I always have more than enough going each time and always find ways to keep myself engaged. Whenever I feel bored, God is trying to show me something. For hours I was strolling around and talking to God. The next morning, God said, “That’s what you’re going to be doing for the best human employer, underutilized, if you don’t want to work for me.”

What??? I didn’t say I wouldn’t work for Him! In fact, I’ve been working for Him all my life… except I’ve gotten comfortable with the ways I like to serve and wouldn’t dare another way He was calling. Unbelievably, the same thing I couldn’t do for the past 3 months I did that very day! Instead of my short-cut of writing, I chose the long route of obedience and made a video when God gave me the Word. And it wasn’t as difficult as I’d made it out in my head to be.

You may be wondering what’s the big deal about making a video if God says to after all people do it all the time. Well, you don’t understand and I get it. It’s a big deal for me because I don’t care for it. I enjoy when people post them but it’s not on my list of interests. I didn’t mean to disobey God and didn’t even realize I was until He said so. I was hoping I could satisfy Him from my comfort zone but partial obedience equals disobedience to God. Thus, by my obedience that fateful day, I confirmed that I’d choose to work for God over every other and that I’d serve the way He wants me to. That I’ll be Daddy’s good girl and do His things His way even if it means taking on changes that I don’t like and learning things I don’t know because I don’t care about them. Amen. You can check out this first video ever on Facebook

It also reminded me of when God was asking me to start a website. I kept telling Him we were okay with the archaic newsletter I had been using for decades. I shoved it off when friends suggested until God raised a friend who made the calls and I had no choice but to send in articles and photos for setting up the site. I remember the designer requesting for photos and suggesting I go do a photoshoot but I said, “Don’t worry, I got good shots already.” When I sent him what I had, he wouldn’t use them because my shabby shots would mess his work so I had no choice but to go to the studio to do a shoot – it was the least I could do considering that God had already taken care of everything else. That’s just the way I am: change doesn’t come that easy to me but God keeps teaching me, one step at a time and using me as it pleases Him.

I’m sharing this to ask you to please keep me in your prayers as I dare into this new adventure with Abba. I also want to encourage us to revaluate our lives and our walk with God. Often what we think we are doing for God is not what He’s called us to do or how He’s called us to it. Always remember that partial obedience equals disobedience with God and that He will choose our obedience any day over our sacrifices.

Blessings
Glory!