Faithful in the little things means a clean car??

by leighgray | November 21, 2011 10:51 am

Hey yall – below you will find a guest post from my southern friend named Holly!!  She is precious girl that absolutely glows with Christ.  This is one that I have had the privilege to hug personally and see her glow in person!  It was my blessing!  As you will find below Holly has a ton of energy and it is all used to bring Him glory.  Everything she does is to bring others into a closer walk with Him.  Another encourager in my life and one I am extremely grateful for!  I hope you will contact Holly and just let her know how much you love her!!  I know you will!    

 

Matthew 25:21 ²¹ “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’

For weeks I have listened to the voice of God press this verse against my heart and I have questioned Him to why now? I think I am piecing together the pieces and I want to share it with you in hopes of you learning from my mistakes and my disobedience.

You see my disorganization has led me to often get snappy with my kids and it would also affects my thoughts, my sleep, my obedience and my surrender.  Now before you say shame on you let me defend myself a wee bit ha- I work a full time job- my girls have weekly dance-band practice etc etc, lead a small group, serve weekly with my church, meetings, dinner dates, mentoring, coffee dates, exercising and on and on and on. Many of you can say AMEN SISTA!

I have realized that my calendar being full has nothing to do with my ability to manage my time but everything to do with my discipline. Last month I knew God was calling me to fast for a week and during that time I really prayed and ask God to enlarge my territory and push me in the direction of my passion and unleash my dreams.   It was hard but it pushed me deeper into His heart.

I began to pray for opportunities and for people to enter my life. Exactly one week to the day I started the fast I was contacted to speak at a girl’s conference in the spring. I sat completely dumbfounded at what had just happened and then later in the day I was asked to guest blog on this site and couldn’t believe that God had given me the opportunity. I mean twice in one day it was too much!

I was excited overwhelmed and I turned to food to celebrate.  Just in one day I was given two things and without discipline those very things turned into me hiding in my shame. That verse says “you have been faithful with a few things” A FEW THINGS.  I had two things which I had prayed for and yet in the moment of excitement I turned to my food addiction.   I have not binged in so long and the day I felt God move in my life satan turned up the heat and made food seem to be my instant gratification. I eventually repented and with God’s beautiful grace I began to see how incredible my Creator’s love for me is.

I have begged for God to move me forward in my passion to speak and then I would climb in my car and move around the 14 cups, the 15 purses, the piles of toys, trash etc and that would push me into frustration.  THEN IT HIT ME! I am not being faithful what I have how in the world do I expect to be given MANY things.  I have started watching those moments that I could be doing something outside of my calendar, celebrating the amazing things and the not so amazing things with first closing my eyes and running to my savior FIRST and I feel the momentum building.

This week along God has already blown my mind with people he has connected me with and the opportunities that will follow.  I could scream! I could cry! I could dance. It took me going through self image issues to understand it was a deeper issue of the heart. It took me going through approval addiction to understand I needed to surrender ME to become who God created me to be. It took me surrendering my life in order for obedience to happen and my passion to explode within me. It took food addiction surfacing to the top to see I HAVE NO DISCIPLINE.  Throughout every struggle God’s love never wavered nor did it lessen the passion within me to share truth and invest in girls.

Leigh has no idea how she was used in this journey but she was.  I have had writers block and frustrated about why I couldn’t formulate a blog and then God used His beautiful word to clarify  it for me.  Leigh is an amazing lady and her obedience has pushed my dreams into motion.  I love to meet people and I love hearing their stories.  Thank you so much for allowing me to share my heart.   I would love to connect with you on twitter at @simplyme_holly  or on my blog site www.simplyholly.wordpress.com[1]    www.unboundministry.com[2]

Thanks again,

Holly Myers

To request for a speaking engagement please contact

Unboundgirlsministry@gmail.com[3] or contact 704-718-3487

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