What are your plans for your life? Most of us can give a general answer but what I want to ask is:

Are they your plans or are they the plans God has for you?

I will tell you about my own life before I chose to accept God in my life, I lived my life the way I wanted and how I wanted. I lived my life believing no one would or could change anything about how I wanted to live.

What I can see now that I didn’t then is that my steps were always ordered by God –

Whether I wanted to believe it or not.

Whether I was going to be obedient to his word or not.

Whether I was going to continue to run or not.

Whether I took the long way or the short way.

The plans for my life, have always been ordered and determined by God.

I come to tell you, whether you believe it or not your steps are ordered too.

Maybe as you read this you are thinking, “well she’s writing this because she has it all together and that’s why its easy for her to walk the path God has for her.”

Let me tell you, if I sound or if you seen me and I look like I have it all together well I give God all the honor and praise because it is the peace I receive from our mighty God. Its the peace that I can feel from him as he continues to calm the storm around me when all I want to do is find the easiest, fastest, and safest way off the rocking boat.

If I sound like I have it all together, I want you to know that the enemy has come what seems like over and over punching me in the face and taking me out at the knees. He comes repeatedly thinking he came up with the best strategy, assignment, or attack he sent my way, has me out for the count. Let me just tell you, it’s not that I have it all together it is the peace of God within me knowing he orders my steps. I know now that I may have been hit so hard that I fell to my knees but I am in the best position to bring it all to God and to praise him even through the storm. I get back up because, THE ENEMY IS A LIAR AND DEFEATED! He tried and continues to try but what he intended for harm God turns it around. Genesis 50:20 – You intended to hard me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of any people. I wasn’t and won’t be out for the count, I am receiving…THE KEY to the strength, the love, the peace, the direction for what comes next and so much more.

I stand up! I keep going! It hurts, its hard but I’ve learned that even if the path before me isn’t completely visible to me with my natural eyes, I walk trusting ‘THE ONE’ leading me through it one step at a time.

My excitement in sharing this encouragement is that, THE KEY isn’t just attainable to me but it attainable to all who will accept God in their lives and trust him as he orders their steps. So stand up because the enemy is a LIAR and DEFEATED!

Let me tell you, I was a mess. I cried every single day. I was mad every single day. I wanted to even die at times to not feel or hurt. I wanted to stop this Christian walk so many times because all I saw was hurt after hurt and attack and after attack knocking me down over and over. One day was different. I remembered when God said, “Give me a chance” and I did, my life changed. He gave me a key to HIM. A key that was always there that in the past, I just over looked it or thought it wasn’t for me. Now I realize now, it’s the key I have always been searching for in my life. Only my own plans weren’t fit for that key because God had other plans for me. This key has given me the love, the peace, the strength, and so much more in Christ that I never knew really existed.

I am not saying I’m perfect or happy every second of the day because I am human. I have struggles, cry, and breakdown in emotions. I write telling you, it’s only God that has transformed me from a woman that would fight, argue, and walk away from anything that would make me feel vulnerable or too transparent, to a woman that trusts God with my whole heart knowing, I may not be an artist but I trust the painter who holds the paint brush for my life.

So I leave you with this thought…

What are your plans for your life and are you willing to let go of your ways for God’s ways, to pick up that key that holds everything you been searching for in HIM?