Sometimes the very thing U are looking for, asking for, even begging others to help U with has been within your possession the entire time.
U Already Have IT!
I recently went to a breakfast place to order food. But before I got there, the Lord started speaking to me in a still small voice that popped in my head, it was my intuition.
What was the voice telling me to do?
The voice was telling me to bring my wallet, make sense right? Right…
But, I didn’t listen.
I decided to only take the cash out of the wallet and after a little back and forth with myself in my head, I decided to bring $12 and change.
I didn’t want to break a paper bill to cover “the change,” so I just dumped some change out of my wallet into my palm and figured it would be enough.
On the way to the breakfast place, I had a conversation that led to my going somewhere other than the place I originally planned to go.
This wouldn’t have even been an afterthought if I had brought my wallet in the first place, but…I DID NOT.
So, the new question became, should I go back and get my wallet?
And the answer… you guessed it…NOPE! I didn’t go back. I forged ahead.
I remembered that when I debated this possibility earlier, I decided that I could buy coffee from one place and food from another. This would have put me in a good position given the cash I had on me.
At the place now, moving ahead with the plan, I ordered my coffee. When it was time to pay, a blessing. I was gifted the coffee and I didn’t even have to spend my cash.
Things were going good, and it was looking like I would have enough cash after all.
Then I headed to the original breakfast place to get food and what do I see?
The door closed and a sign on the door that read….Closed…. [for such and such reason]…but all I could see was…
Closed!!!
I thought to myself […It never closes. It’s always open. I’ve actually never known this place to close. But today, today, the day I decided to leave my wallet and bring exact change because I was familiar with the menu at this place and the prices, what happens? what did I get? A shut door with a sign on it….closed!!!]
Closed!!!
It was definitely a twist I did not see coming, but what could I do? I needed food to be able to drink my coffee so that I could manage my caffeine sensitivity.
I had to go back to where I just left and this time, for food.
And, that’s exactly what I did.
I went back, I ordered what I thought would be in my budget and had no idea what the total would be.
I waited, got the food, then it was time to pay.
Bracing myself for a high amount while hoping it would be covered by the cash I had, I hear the cashier tell me a number that sounded familiar….it was $12 and change.
It didn’t take all my coins, I still had just a little left over 🙂 and I didn’t have to leave the place “cashed-out”. I had enough.
I HAD ENOUGH. WOW!!!
Now who could have planned it? Not me…
So, in the end of the first part of this story, I left the place with a beverage, food and so much more. The more… reminders of life lessons I already knew.
Now let’s get into what I learned from this part of the experience.
Lesson 1: Follow your first mind, your intuition is never wrong.
Follow it always, and follow it Every Single Time!!! It will never and has NEVER led U astray.
“Something” told me to bring my wallet, but I didn’t listen. I used my brain, I rationalized and came up with a plan and went with it. Not once but twice, I had the opportunity to change course and bring my wallet but I didn’t listen to the still small voice. I convinced myself to ignore the voice and instead devised a plan that I thought would work [and would have worked, if I didn’t have any twist or turns to the expected events]. So next time, I’ll do better. I’ll know exactly what to do.
Lesson 2: Even when you don’t listen, God’s got you covered.
I didn’t expect my coffee to be gifted to me and at the time this happened, I had no idea what was in front of me[remember, the whole shut door, “closed” sign that left me unable to execute my backup plan?]. But, God! God had me covered before I even realized it. Way back at the beginning when I was debating if to even bring the wallet and how much cash to bring, down-to-the-coins! God knew and had me covered!
Ok, Now let’s continue the story.Part 2 of this experience.
Time To Eat…And More Lessons Loading
When it was time to eat, I didn’t realize that I had another lesson loading. After all, I was still praise dancing from the first one, and the blessing of my beverage and enough money to get the food.
When it was time to eat, without really checking the bag that the food was packaged in, I made an assumption that I didn’t have everything I needed to eat the food.
I asked someone to let me borrow a utensil because I was sure that I needed it since I didn’t see it put there and I didn’t grab any for myself.
They were surprise that I didn’t get any utensil from the food place and even questioned me, “they didn’t give you any utensils in the bag?”
To which my response was…NO.
This is how sure I was that I wasn’t given anything. Again, because I didn’t readily see it as I was grabbing my food nor did I see them put anything in the bag when the food was being packaged.
After my response, I was given a fork, knife, and spoon, not lent, because they didn’t want it back :).
Time to eat.
I started eating, and what happens? The utensil drops, on the floor!!!
So, I had to ask for another one, the second set of utensils.
Got it.
But, by the time, I got the second set of utensils, I decided to pack the food back in the bag to go eat it somewhere else.
When I got to the other place, I started pulling things out of the bag and what happens again?!
The second utensil set DROPPED! AGAIN!
This time I knew the DEVIL DIDN’T WANT ME EATING O.
I started rebuking the devil, and saying, I MUST EAT THIS FOOD IJN…AMEN!
But before I could eat, I needed to get a fresh set of utensils, the third set of utensils.
So I asked yet another person if they had any utensils I could use. The answer was not an immediate yet, they had to check and see if they had it to give me. While they were still searching, I told them ‘nevermind.’
I left them, walked down the hallway, found a set, and brought it back to finally eat.
And like they say, IT WAS A CHARM!
I was finally able to eat all the food, and I enjoyed it!
Once I finished everything and went to take out the extra napkins from the bag that I knew I had taken from the food place, what did I notice inside?
Not one, not two, but three utensil packages.
The utensil packages had a fork, knife and spoon, nicely packed and placed in the bag for me.
The same bag I went into three different times while eating.
The same bag that was holding the food that I twice before attempted to bring to my mouth that ended unsuccessfully because I either dropped the utensil or they fell to the floor.
It took three times for me to be successful at actually eating the food.
Three Times.
That means, that I needed, not 1, not 2 but 3 sets of utensils before I experienced the charm that people talk about.
Exactly 3. Wow!!!
So here we are, arriving at Lesson Number 3:
Sometimes the Very Thing U Are Looking For, Asking For, Even Begging Others to Help U With Has Been Within Your Possession the Entire Time.
The same bag I had with me since the beginning of the eating part had the very thing(s) I needed for the part 2 experience of eating to end successfully.
Even when I was dropping, blaming, walking around the world looking and searching for a utensil, the same bag, already had the utensils I needed.
Again, Not ONE, Not TWO, but THREE utensil packages.
There were enough utensils for me to make all the mistakes I made that caused the previous utensils to fall on the ground and get dirty.
My breakfast eating experience came with 3 chances to successfully get the food in mouth and I didn’t even know it.
THE OVERFLOW
I not only had what I wanted and needed, but I had an overflow. An Overabundance, In MY Possession, THE ENTIRE TIME.
Even unbeknownst to me, it remained true that I had everything I needed before I even knew that I would need it.
I mean 3Xs…that’s alot, and cannot be taken as random.
Lesson 4: Everything will be revealed to U at the right time, God’s Timing.
Because of the sequence of events and the timing of it all, I was impacted in a big way.
I was reminded of the love and ways of God.
I was reminded that our steps are ordered by the Lord[Psalm 37:23].
God had already made a way, given me every provision that I needed, and I was there thinking and acting in a state of lack.
I was not only thinking that I lacked something, I also brought the devil in it, and the devil had no power to stop what was already mine and in my possession.
This one was clearly me not seeing what was within my possession. Not looking first before making assumptions. Expecting the worst instead of what I actually wanted to be true.
This was all flesh, zero faith, zero enemy.
And,
I know I’m not the only one that does this.
Often times, we are so in our thoughts that we forget to listen to our inner voice, our intuition, our spirit.
We forget to look within and just have faith that the things are working out for our own good and will[Romans 8:28].
And even when we miss it, God still provides for us.
We walk around expecting the least if not the worst case scenario.
We forget to open our arms and receive our blessings.
But When We Do…
When we open our eyes, and arms, and heart, we find that, we are and have always been in God’s favor, and we find the overflow.
Our blessings are labeled with our names on it. It will not miss us because we are always walking around with everything God put inside of us.
And, at the right time, it will be revealed to us, or delivered in our possession, nicely packaged.
If you’ve been praying, waiting, trying to make a way out of what may even seem like a road block, Hold On.
Hold On even when it feels like you are being attacked from several angle, Stay Still.
Even when your brain seems to run out of options and cannot rationalize again…Watch God Be The Way Maker.
And,
Trust that it will happen for you EVERY, SINGLE, TIME.
EVERYTHING U NEED IS RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES. IN FACT, WE ARE LIVING IN ABUNDANCE, and are in a state of overflow.
The End! 🙂
If this impacted you too, pay attention to that feeling.
If you can’t talk about it, write it down.
However you process it, just make sure you do one thing…Listen.
Listen because God has a special way of communicating to and with each and every one of us.
And,
God will ALWAYS show up for us when we need it.
So, I’m praise-breaking it out until next time. Stay prayed up and take care of U.
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