Deuteronomy 1:6 - "The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough on this mountain. 

You may find yourself feeling stuck, but I want to encourge you to keep reading because despite what your situation looks like, you aren’t stuck. You may have been or feel you still may be in a season where all you see is hurt, destruction, discouragement, and disappointment but I want to encourage every person reading this blog that you need to just stand up and move forward.

GET UNSTUCK! MOVE FORWARD!

That mountain may look too big but it is time we stand up and tell that mountain, “My GOD is bigger!”

Before, during, and even after your season, God is , has been, and will be preparing you for what’s next, new opportunities, new levels, and even breakthroughs, but I have to say we won’t and can’t get or receive anything God has for us by sitting at the bottom of the mountain feeling defeated. We do have to MOVE!

You will hear the lies of the enemy tell you “You’re to stuck!” “There’s no way you’re getting over or through this mountain” but the promises of GOD tell you, ” You have the VICTORY!”

Where is your faith at right now? Stir up that faith! Begin to trust and beleive again and start moving forward to where GOD is leading you.

I want you to know that you aren’t reading this blog by accident. God knew and led you here. He wanted you to know that, “You been on this mountain long enough!

IT’S TIME! IT’S TIME TO MOVE FORWARD! I don’t know what your mountain is but you and God do.

Maybe this is exactly what you needed to get unstuck and move forward. To be totally honest I needed this encouragement myself too. I needed God to tell me I been on that mountain long enough and that it was time to walk in the VICTORY HE already told me I have.

Trust, have faith, and believe that God is making a way even if you don’t see a way, even if it looks like there is no possible way. I share Matthew 19:26 – Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.”

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH GOD!

Don’t allow that mountain that stands before you to keep you feeling stuck and thinking you can’t get over or push through it to claim that VICTORY.

I challenge you:

Get unstuck and move forward!

Believe that victory is yours!

Claim that voctory is yours!

Declare that victory is yours!

Who hasn’t had moments or seasons where every day they feel defeated and just completely tired because everything seems to be coming at them at once. I’m here to say, I’ve been there, I’m there, but I am not staying there. The word tells us we fall seven times, but we get back up (Proverbs 24:16). God reminded me that I was losing focus because of the focus I was giving to the circumstances around me, hanging on to things, and trying to control things that I have no possible way of doing on my own. All I heard was, ” Melissa, your losing focus because you’re hanging on to things that you should have laid at my feet and had complete trust in Him and His word. I don’t know what anyone reading this is thinking or holding on to but I know someone needed to read this just as God put it in my heart.

FOCUS! KNOW THAT YOU ARE BLESSED!

It’s a new day! Choose to walk toward His promises. Choose to bring someone to know the mighty God that when he says drop it, you drop it because he is going to do a mighty work. Walk in faith giving God all the honor and glory as this shift is about to take place.

BUT YOU GOTTA DROP IT! JUST DROP IT! YOU DON’T NEED IT! ITS EXCESS! ITS NOT YOURS TO CARRY! DROP IT!

Does it look like you’re praying and trusting and nothing is happening? Maybe so!

Does it look completely dark all around you? Possibly so!

Does it look like destruction everywhere you look? Through your and my natural eyes…Absolutley!

I write this to someone reading this just as God asked me, ” Melissa, What are you doing?” Why are you carrying this?” DROP IT!”

God is preparing a new way, a new path, but if you lose focus and allow the enemy to make you think your down for the count you will continue to feel defeated. You will continue to walk with a heavy load that is all unneeded because it is excess.

FOCUS! If not you will miss the new way God is preparing for you!

Its time to sit up, look up, rise up, and DROP IT!

Walk in faith! 2 Corinthians 5:7 –  For we live by believing and not by seeing.

I encourage you to know that once you DROP It, whatever it may be, you are on your way to where God has been trying to lead you.

ITS TIME! DROP IT!

VICTORY IS YOURS!

God saved me! Did I deserve it? Definitely not, but HE still came for me. He came for me about 5 years ago when nothing was going right in my life…He came for me when everything ahead of me felt uncertain. Even after turning down invitation after invitation from my mother -n-law to attend a church service and declining to speak to a pastor, God still deemed me worthy and came for me. On a rainy gloomy day, he sent a pastor I didn’t really know to call me and tell me about a God that has been with me through the storm I was walking in at the moment. He told me about a God that was collecting every single tear that slid from my eyes, down my cheek and forming a wet spot on my jeans. Psalm 56:8 – You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. I listened and cried but realized although maybe I did feel scared or unsure if this could really be true, there was also a part of me that said nothing else you’ve been doing has worked out for you. Not even realizing that God spoke to me even then that I heard a whisper saying, “GIVE ME A CHANCE!” Back then I didn’t know that God would speak to you, so I shrugged it off as the rain drops falling on the roof of my truck. COME ON EVERYONE, LET`S BE REAL..rain drops falling on car rooftops don’t sound like a whisper. I also do remember thinking the pastor was right, if I said yes it had to be for me not the storm I was in at the moment. I DO REMEMBER!! I DO REMEMBER feeling lost and defeated! I DO REMEMBER feeling sick! I DO REMEMBER having a deep heavy anger that was hard to control! I DO REMEMBER feeling broken! I still remember saying YES to allowing God into my heart. I said yes to letting HIM save me on that rainy day and all the sudden the day didn’t seem so gloomy. I said yes for me and still cried but I felt loved! I felt worthy! I felt excited! I felt the beginning of a new me coming up. I want to encourage you as your reading this that you weren’t given the link to this blog post by accident. This very blog post was meant for YOU! If you haven’t surrendered your life to God, maybe your starting to feel a little tug on your heart, maybe you have tears rolling down your face, maybe you too are feeling scared and unsure if this is a real thing, and maybe you are having an overwhelming feeling to know the same God that came to save me that rainy day. God placed this in my heart for YOU reading this blog post right now. For the one that feels they have done too much to be forgiven, for the one that feels they are a lost cause, and for the one that feels there’s no hope. I want you to know HE is the very missing piece in your heart and life. That void can be filled the moment you take that leap of faith and say YES! This can be your very own DO YOU REMEMBER testimony. You’re right! Nothing will ever be the same… you are a new creation when you say YES! 2 Corinthians 5:17 – This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! I want you to know that just as Christ save me …He can also save you!

Let’s be honest!

Being still is hard. Why is it so hard? Being totally honest again, in our natural self, we want to see results, or changes. We want to see them fast or how and when we want them but God doesn’t work like that. The bible never states that this walk with God would be easy but it is worth it if we choose it.

Matthew 7:13-14 – You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad , and it’s gate is wide for the many that choose that way. ¹⁴⁾But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.

Few find it….

Few find it because many are unwilling to allow God to lead us. Many of us can’t or won’t BE STILL long enough so that God can do what he needs to do in us, through us, and for us. Is anyone thinking. Am I getting in the way? To be honest, YES and this honesty doesn’t come lightly because I have had to tell my own self “MELISSA, GET OUT OF THE WAY!” a time or two or more. All we do is delay what God is trying to do. The few that do find it are the ones that are ready to leave it all behind even if it hurts or seems hard, but they want everything God has planned for their lives to glorify Christ through it.

That Battle! Its not easy to walk through, let alone be still but I want you to know that God walks with you during, through it, and after it. All we need to do is believe, trust and Be Still and I remind you of the verse Exodus 14:14. In that battle or storm, you may hear “Be Still, Be Still.. but you feel uneasy or nervous because it looks dangerous and like its gonna wreck you. You want to say, “but God… how can I?”….. “but God don’t you see this situation?”…”don’t you see it’s getting worse?” …”look at the brokenness going on over here.”…”look at how far I fell”…”look at how I just cant get up” or maybe you fell so hard you just don’t see the point anymore. I want to share that the God that says. “BE STILL!” isn’t just anyone. He is the God that breaks chains…He is the God that moves mountains…He is that waymaker…He is the God that fights your battles so that you wont have to. He is the God that calls you to BE STILL when your at the end of your rope because as long as the other end of the rope is anchor the HIM all you need to do is trust him and BE STILL.

I encourage you with this thought, you can’t get through the storm or battle with out the mighty God that has the power and authority to command it to be still. Mark 4:39 – When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ” Silence! Be still” Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm.

Galatians 6:9 - So let's not get tired of doing what's good. At just the  right time we will reap a harvest of blessing you you don't give up.  

Everything in you is saying, WALK AWAY!

Everything in you is saying, IT’S NOT / YOU’RE NOT WORTH IT!

Everything in you is saying, GIVE UP!

BUT GOD…

But God is saying, GET UP AND WALK TO ME!

But God is saying, YOU’RE WORHT IT, YOU’RE MINE!

But God is saying, DON’T GIVE UP! KEEP GOING YOUR BLESSING IS COMING!

We all been there at some point in our lives or maybe you’re there now. I want to tell you that even as you look around and everything seems as if it’s destroyed, you look in the mirror and you don’t see anyone worth anyone’s time, you feel your heart has been shattered and there is no putting it back together,

But God says, THAT DESTRUCTION IS ABOUT TO BE RECREATED,

But God says, WIPE THAT MIRROR AND THOSE TEARS AND SEE THAT YOU ARE WORTHY, I SENT MY SON TO SAVE YOU!

But God says, I’VE PICKED UP EVERY PIECE OF YOUR HEART AND IM ABOUT TO RESTORE IT BUT YOU GOTTA GET UP, YOU GOTTA TRUST ME, YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THAT PROMISE I GAVE YOU BECAUSE IF YOU DON’T GIVE UP AND YOU LET ME STRENGTHEN YOU, YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE YOUR PROMISE.

Your promise is what you have been praying for and its that harvest that, that lying devil is trying to take away from you, your children, your children’s children. Don’t give up! Stand up! Let God do the preparation in you and for you and just get ready!

IT’S TIME TO REAP YOUR HARVEST!!

No one sees you! You’re invisible! You’re unseen! You’re forgotten! LIES! LIES! LIES of the enemy! His strategy is to trap you. If he can trap you, you will stay in place, you won’t move forward, and you won’t seek God. Maybe you been sitting in that dark space so long that now you’re not sure what to do because you’re starting to believe the lies. Maybe in your walk with God, you found yourself in your prayer room crying and saying, “God, I’m doing what you asked, I’m doing it all and no one is seeing…I’m still broken, and no one sees… I’m still broken, and no one sees…I’m still hurt, and no one sees…I want to forgive but I can’t and no one sees!” Maybe you don’t know God…YET..but you’re wondering if you even matter. No one sees you, no one noticed you haven’t called or text in a few days, no one noticed that you haven’t even come around in a few days, so maybe you don’t matter. Right now you maybe even thinking yes that is or was me but I want you to see you aren’t alone. Those thoughts were mine. I fell into the trap the enemy was throwing at me. I started to believe the lies. I want to encourage you right now like someone did for me to tell you that there is always light. John 8:12 -Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, ” I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life. I want you to see that the lies were never true because what I failed to see was that God was always with me then, now, and always but I had to decide if I wanted to continue to sit in the darkness with the enemy or walk in the light with God because he saw me and took me as I was at that moment. You have that choice too and I want you to know that it isn’t a coincidence that your reading this because God loves you, He calls you HIS and HE SEES YOU!!

Waiting……No one really enjoys these moments to be honest.

We all have stories we can share or relate to, I can imagine. We pray and we fast, hoping that whatever it may be, that it not take too long. That new thing we been praying about often has us searching. Being honest we most often search for the shortest route, the fastest route, and even the easiest route, that we think no one could know or even think about. We want the path leading us to our new thing that will only have us endure the least battle or fight. BUT GOD…knows why or why not, how, and how long. We may not understand why HE is bringing us through a longer rougher route. It may seem like everything we been praying about was never even heard, but HE knows this is the route we need to build our faith and trust in HIM for what lies ahead. It may seem like we may have been praying and fasting for so long and have yet to see any evidence of any new thing. Whatever that new thing is that HE is holding and waiting for that right time…HIS time, is HIS to reveal. It may look hard, it may hurt some but “the wait” was never said to be easy, only that it would be worth it. It is worth it to be able to experience and see the Glory of God bring to life what you once thought was dead. We read in the bible of many that had to be in a season of waiting to receive their promises with most having to wait year after year and I can imagine a few are popping in your head now. They weren’t alone and neither are we, the same God that got them through is getting you through. Be confident, patient, strong, courageous, and stay focused and don’t rush the wait.

Psalm 27:13-14 - 13 Yet I am confident I will see the Lord's goodness while I am here in the land of the living. 14 Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord.