Run the Path You’re Set to Run

Run the path you’re set to run… It has been almost a week since I’ve ran, giving my body a needed break. My legs at first started out feeling an unusual heaviness, I didn’t like it! I had this thought hit me, “You don’t have to run today, you can just go back home. “My answer to this was, “NO, it will pass I’m going to keep going!” After the next round I realized my legs felt lighter!

The same thing goes for our spiritual walk, or in different areas of our lives. It’s so easy to find some kind of excuse to quit and give in, I’m too tired, I’m not comfortable, I don’t feel like it, I don’t want to, this isn’t really me, procrastination… and the list goes on. This includes changes in your lifestyle such as your eating habits or just needing to exercise. Or maybe you’ve been putting something off that you have had the desire to do but fear has held you back like it did me.

Do The Opposite of What Fear Says

Yes, fear kept me from starting this website. I allowed it to hold me back for a while, thinking what do I have to offer someone, who am I? But then I realized we all have something to offer, someone out there needs our help. When fear is involved, there is a big reason for it! I knew it wasn’t coming from God, and if it wasn’t coming from God, it was coming from the enemy. Why was the enemy trying to instill this fear in me? I had to work hard to get past this mindset of fear. I had days where I gave in to the easy road and not do anything at all. How can I get past this? How can I defeat Fear?

DO THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT FEAR SAYS! This is what I have always told myself to do whenever I was confronted with it.

Then I got this awesome thought, I can just write until I’m ready and comfortable to publish. It took baby steps for me to accomplish this. It was a big deal for me! “What if no one likes it? What if I get no responses? WHAT ARE PEOPLE GOING TO THINK ABOUT ME?!” It took me over a year to publish this website! But do you know what else…I was making it all about me. Oh yes indeed! When we have our focus in the wrong place, it is then that we open the doors to fear and other negativities.

Taking That First Step

Taking that first step is always the hardest and the heaviest…it’s when we feel our weakest and most vulnerable. To overcome that weakness, we must keep on going! You’ve got to have a little tenacity. Start out taking baby steps and as you do your confidence will grow more and the fear will begin to subside, because you’re not giving in, you’re doing something. The little somethings are what get us to the bigger somethings!

Do you know what? Once I published this website, I was fine! I didn’t care who thought what because I knew this was the path that God had put me on. My confidence lies in Him not in myself!

I was a guest speaker in another church and preached my first Sunday morning service on Easter. I have taught but never have I preached except the times I would pretend to…Haha! As a matter of fact, I not only preached but ended up singing a special and my daughter played the keyboard, and it was not a part of the plan. Their praise and worship leader was out sick.

Because I knew the Lord had put me there, I had no fear of any kind. My confidence was in God, He came through the way He wanted it to, it went His way not mine! I am only His vessel, His servant, this is all I am! I did not once make it about me, and that my friends, is how we keep fear and all negativities from entering into the picture! There is success in God’s way.

The Devil Will Attack You in The Area He Doesn’t Want You to Focus On

I will tell you my mind was attacked that week. God had already given me the topic the week before. I was struggling with getting my message together. Fear was trying to seep in, I would ignore it and kept on pressing on. It was a Wednesday I went out into the yard and asked God what is going on here? God if you don’t want me to speak I won’t, are you sure you want me to do this? I’ve never done this before! Maybe it’s the wrong day. Haha! The Holy Spirit said to me, “THE DEVIL WILL ATTACK YOU IN THE AREA HE DOESN’T WANT YOU TO FOCUS ON!” He was attacking my mind! The message the Lord had given me was on “The Mind.”

The week before I was going to preach, Pastor Floria Adamson of The Summit of Peace Church called me and said to me, “I have had you on my mind and have been praying for you, are you experiencing the same thing that I’m experiencing?” She was speaking the same weekend I was and was leading a women’s conference on Saturday morning. I told her what I was experiencing and come to find out so was she! We began to uplift each other then we had a good laugh at the devil because of what he was trying to do. I prayed for she and I both while we were on the phone…

I told the devil that he could try all he wanted to but that he is bound and defeated and how Pastor Floria Adamson and I didn’t need our notes because what we had was already instilled on the inside of us and we are walking in Victory, and he will stay under our feet!

WE DIDN’T GIVE INTO HOW WE WERE FEELING! WE KEPT ON GOING AND KEPT OUR FOCUS ON WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON!

Don’t be so quick to giving up and giving in to how you feel…giving in to feelings is the easy way out and is having a failure mentality and it is giving the enemy his victory.

FAITH IS NOT BASED ON FEELINGS! GOING BY HOW YOU FEEL WILL STEAL YOUR FOCUS!

We’re called to not live by our feelings but by faith (2 Cor. 5:7).

IF WE WENT BY HOW WE FELT WE WOULD NEVER GET ANYTHING ACCOMPLISHED!
THAT’S THE ENEMY’S TACTIC TO KEEP YOU FROM MOVING FORWARD…HE DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SUCCEED!

Be strong and be faithful… I promise it will get easier and easier and before you know it, you’ll look back and say to yourself, “That was a piece of cake!” I can honestly say, “THAT WAS A PIECE OF CAKE!” RUN THE PATH YOU’RE SET TO RUN! DON’T STOP KEEP ON GOING! IT’S LEADING YOU TO YOUR DESTINY!

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. IN HIS PLANS THERE IS CONFIDENCE!