Lessons in Surrender: Trusting God’s Plan

Hi friend! I journal everything The Lord puts on my heart. That leaves me writing down all the things He does for me on a daily basis to keep track of everything. I do this for multiple purposes, but two things are for my own memory, and to come back to when something is fulfilled so I have proof of it to share with others if called to do so.

I don’t normally share directly out of my journal, but I am going to today because He led me to an entry that pertains with a situation that happened today. This journal entry is from about a month ago, January 4th, and it’s about how we need to go where The Lord leads us to be able to fulfill His purposes. What else are we living for if not surrendering everything we have and our current lives to Him? So that if he wants to place us somewhere else to fulfill what He has for us, then so be it. I want to live for Him, and I am sharing this to inspire you to do the same because His ways are better than our ways, and His plan is far better and soul-fulfilling than what we could even dream up for ourselves.

Jan 4, 2025 (edited a little so that if someone that doesn’t know me personally reads it they still understand)

I’ve been slacking documenting

I will go back to yesterday for a second. We (McCoy & I) were on our way home from the place we used to live for a shopping day. The Lord removed us from our old city for various reasons I can talk about it more in depth in another blog or podcast. We stopped at the grocery store that we used to go to on a daily, we went in the evening and it was “our thing” wandering around this grocery store. We haven’t been there for several months because we had no need to, but this trip we just thought it would be fun to re-live it again since we were on our way home, and it was around the time we used to stop there.

It hit us very hard and we were both almost crying in the grocery store from such a strong feeling of nostalgia. Not expected!! it was the fact that it was such a regular thing for us to wander this grocery store in the evening when it was super empty, and the fact that time in our life will never be again.

I’m choked up just writing this (not currently, but at the time I wrote this yes). We have a new life now, and we know we can’t go back. A part of us wants to, but a bigger part of us knows there’s something The Lord is going to do in our new small town life. There is a reason we were placed here.

After talking about this for 20-30 minutes on our car ride home, we stop at kwik trip and The Lord put Joshua on my heart, but I couldn’t hear the chapter/verse, and I didn’t know anything about Joshua as I haven’t read that book yet. I ended up forgetting about it by the time I got home cause we still had about 40-50 minutes left.

Then today at church things got wild (still the entry, so jan 4)

When we made it to church, there was hardly anyone attending today. So it especially felt like The Lord was speaking directly to me. Every time Jeff (He is a part of the church and does a lot of things to help run it, I think he is considered a deacon but don’t quote me if that’s the title) speaks a word, it’s like the Holy Spirit just pours out of him.

Next thing we noticed was the music was different. Something improved drastically with worship. I don’t know what it was, but it was especially good and almost angelic today.

Then pastor just sounded so good like his health is improving with his breathing. He was in very good spirits and seemed really happy, praise Jesus!

Then Jeff gets up there and shared a dream and a prophecy he had and it regarded us (people) being salt cubes and how The Lord very strategically places them to fulfill God’s plan.

Side note: you remember how I said yesterday we had a moment of mourning over our old lives that God removed us from after we surrendered our lives to Him, jobs, city we live in, etc.

I am going to summarize what Jeff said but I could share the message at a later time if he agrees to it. I just need to get what I have to share out. He said The Fire of His Spirit is going to pour into certain individuals and nothing is getting in God’s way for this.

Pastor covered Joshua 1:1-7 and I am thinking The Lord was trying to give me a pre-look at today (sunday)

“After the death of Moses the servant of The Lord, it came to pass that The Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying “Moses, My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving them- the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, and all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do something accordingly to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, and that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

All this to say folks, you gotta listen to where The Lord leads you no matter what. We refused to listen many times before we finally got to our lowest point in our lives to be able to learn it the hard way. We both were jobless, hopeless, friendless, and it had to happen because we would have never moved to Ladysmith if it weren’t for Him removing things from our lives that were going to prevent His will for our lives to be fulfilled. He has blessed us with more than we asked for, you just have to surrender and listen to Him at all costs.