Releasing Fear and Walking in Purpose

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The Reset

Approximately, a week before 2018 was set to end, I was compelled to deactivate my Instagram page to ensure I could hear clearly from the Lord, what my next year would entailed. What is the strategy? What is the plan? What can I do to make the coming year different, better than the current. What improvements could I implement?

Nothing is wrong with this approach, if you actually plan on making active steps to change and maybe doing something that pushes you outside of your comfort zone. What's the problem with this scenario? The problem comes, when you have no plans to actually put to action the answers to the above questions. How do we implement change?

The Stall

For the last few years, I’d been praying for destiny and purpose to be revealed. God revealed what my heart was calling me to but I  never FULLY implemented steps to yield manifestation of what I desired to see. As described by Sarah Jakes Roberts, your purpose is most often found in that thing you do that allows Heaven to touch earth. That thing that allows God to manifest himself through you to others. That thing that you do that only happens when you can’t do it without God. So I knew coming into 2019, I wanted to actually put movement to the of Voice of God in my life.

During the sabbatical, I focused on reading Becoming, by Michelle Obama, continue the reading of Don’t Settle for Safe: Embracing the Uncomfortable to Become Unstoppable by Sarah Jakes Roberts, and of course the Word (Bible) --for clarity, needed direction, and lastly, to clear my mind of all unnecessary clutter and noise. I needed to create a clear tunnel from the Heart of God to my ears, to my heart, to my spirit.  This would be something of a spiritual detox. It served as just that, as I dissected my thoughts, lined them up, and appropriately placed them in the necessary compartments needed for action and finally a follow-through plan.

I didn’t want to continuously pray for God to do something that I, in many ways fearful to do. Fear of failure, fear of the cost of this thing that seemed to be bigger than me (be it financially, time, energy, effort expended), fear of it not be received by others. Simply put, the fear of failure.

Failure to Launch

In reading Becoming, Michelle Obama gives what I thought were the most profound words regarding failure, "Failure is a feeling long before it becomes and actual result. Its vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear." After reading this quote 43 pages in, I read it about three more times and typed it into the notes of my trusty iPhone, this statement resonated with me. This quote ran so true to me and the basis to which this entire blog and post was founded on.  I had simply allowed the thought of failure to prevent me from even attempting to try. It was at this moment that I knew I had to put action to the thing that had been hovering over my head. How do I become the hands and feet of God on earth? It's not simply being contained to the four walls of the physical church but giving pieces of Him to all I may encounter.

Finding Purpose

My heart’s desire is simply to encourage, inspire, motivate young girls and women alike to stand in and draw from the strength they’re predestined to operate in. To use my triumphs, my failures, my hurts, my disappointments, my high, my lows and somehow bottle them up and give drink to someone who may be parched with the woes of life. Thus this blog was birthed in my desire to walk in purpose and give fragments of the essence of who I am; AllThingsSKG: Faith, Family, Fashion, and all things in between.

As this blog post ends, I ask that you consider the following questions: Are you seeking God for destiny and purpose for your life? (Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. Matthew 6:33)  Are you living in fear?  (For God have not given us spirit of fear;  but of power, and of love, and a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7)  Are you activating the Voice of God  in your life?For as the body without the spirt is dead, so faith without works is dead also. James 2:26