The Year to Believe

I never knew that my One Word for 2020 – Believe – would turn out like this. Sure, I knew it would involve some trust in what God said to me. But what about when things were happening and I didn’t have a Word on ‘that’ but the Word that I did have was birthed from ‘that’?

Or what about the fact that when I talked to God about my One Word, He added another word: Receive. So now here I am at the beginning of the year with a One Word that has two sides: Believing and Receiving. What impact will these words have in my life? Is it really time to receive from God everything I’ve been believing Him for? Only time will tell.

From the moment God spoke Receive to me, I knew things were going to be different. How different, I had not a clue. But give it a couple of months and I had one word to describe it all: Unprecedented. Not only did I receive an unprecedented move from one platform to another, I received an unprecedented mind-shift when God gave me a plan to eliminate the stress inducing, anxiety filled debt that had invaded my thought life for the past three years.

Right after my peace was restored and I was in my happy place, a BIG test came along. A situation arose that challenged me to stand in faith and not operate out of fear because of what happened. In the process, I passed along erroneous information to others about what happened that at the time I thought was correct. Needless to say, I had to choose whether or not I would tell those that I shared the incorrect information with that I’d learned the truth. Unless I told them, they had no way of knowing that I’d found out the truth and telling them would make me look bad.

I didn’t wrestle with not telling the truth any longer than it took for the thought to cross my mind. Because in these unprecedented times that we are in, only the truth is what will keep me free. All in all, I only had one person to joke with me stating that the “cabin fever” that I must be experiencing as a result of the “stay at home” mandate was what caused me to make such a faux pas in the first place. Looking back at that situation now in light of what is going on around the world, I’m glad I was able to stand against the fear of ‘what will people think?’ Because to truly know that I’m rooted in the Word of God is what matters most.