HAND IT OVER!

Hey, y'all!
It has been a good while since I've had the time to post.

As you all have probably seen through my posts on facebook, I've started my journey with Trades of Hope. This journey has been an incredible experience! I have learned so much, not only about the things going on in the world, but so much about myself!

God has shown me through this company that I am more than I give myself credit for. I CAN make an impact, even if it's small contributions like selling products here or there.

I've made it my passion to share the mission of Trades of Hope and while doing that, I'm able to do my other passion: share the Word of God. It has helped me become closer to God, personally. It has also helped me bring others closer to Him too.

I'm not going to take any credit for it though, because it is ALL GOD! He definitely plays the leading role in everything that's happening through this company, through me. I am handing this over to Him.

That's something we all have issues with sometimes: handing things over to God. It's so easy for us to hand money over to a  cashier at the store. It's so easy for us to hand over our hair style to our hairstylist. It's so easy to hand over our health to our doctors. It's so easy to hand over our love to our family. It's so easy to hand over our time to our passions. But WHY is it so hard to hand over anything to the Creator of All Things?

I mean, He's the one that lead us to these situations. He's the one that promises us that He'll help us through them. So why can't we TRUST in Him and let HIM take care of it??

I was talking to my daddy the other day about this. We trust PEOPLE more than we trust GOD sometimes! Why is that??

My answer was: I feel like I get a more immediate satisfaction or gratification from people, when I put my trust in them. When I put my trust in God, I feel like I have to be more PATIENT and wait around for Him to take care of what I trusted Him to take care of.

It's SO HARD to be patient and to think that you're going to receive something great from waiting. WHO has that TIME to be patient? Or to wait around for gratification?

When I want or need something to happen, I usually want it to happen NOW!

That's why we trust people more sometimes, because no matter how many times they fail us, we always get immediate gratification and satisfaction. They either allow us to keep trusting them (because they prove to be trustworthy) or we learn not to trust them anymore RIGHT THEN! And when something happens that makes us lose our trust in them, we are DEVASTATED! Because we put SO much trust in them...

YET! When we trust God with everything, He NEVER lets us down! It may take longer than we want for the gratification or satisfaction of Him answering. Everything falls into place, no matter what we trust God with. We should trust Him with EVERYTHING, because without Him.... there would be NOTHING!

Also, when we go to God for things... are we honestly HANDING it over to Him? Or are we just informing Him on what we want to happen? Are we TRUSTING Him to handle it? Or are we just letting Him be apart of it?

These are things that I'm super convicted of, because I get so caught up in what I want to happen immediately... I don't wait on God. I don't hand it over to Him. I hold on TIGHT to everything and try to handle things on my own. I might pray to God ABOUT it and ask Him to put His hand over it. But that's not HANDING it over to Him.

Let's pray to God to help us TRUST Him more, so we can HAND things over to Him!!

Dear Lord,
Thank you for every single person reading this. They are a very big encouragement to me and my calling from you. Please, bless them through the words that you lay on my heart to share. Help them to plant seeds and please nourish those seeds to grow and produce your amazing fruit.
Lord,  come to you today to ask you to help us to learn to TRUST in YOU more than we trust each other. Help us to become closer to you and YOUR plan, not our own. Thank you for your UNFAILING promises. You are truly the ALL POWERFUL, UNDENIABLE, LOVING Father that we should always look to for EVERYTHING!

For it's in your name we pray, Lord.
Amen.