How can we trust in God during these difficult times? I find myself asking this question more often than not, especially lately because as you all know, I've started my own type of fashion styling business online through Keaton Row, and honestly, I'm really starting to get pretty discouraged, I have been with Keaton Row for about 4 weeks now, and I still have no clients, even though I've done everything that they told me I should do to get these clients, still, no result, it really stinks, as you can probably tell. I'm also constantly asking myself, " am I doing something wrong? why is this taking so long?" So far, there are no answers yet, I'm still waiting patiently, and trying to listen. Anyway, this brings me to the Bible verse that I used for this blog today: "and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me." This was Jesus speaking to His people in Jeremiah 32:40. In other words, Jesus means to say this: "God uses His power to accomplish His purposes, through His people. God doesn't give you power to be all that you want to be, but He does give you the power to be all that He wants you to be. The people of Israel had to learn that trusting God meant radically realigning their purposes and desires with His. He gave to them "one heart" toward Him (32:39). We must develop that singleness of purpose to always love God above anything else." ~Jeremiah 32:36-42.
Here are my thoughts and reflections on the above Bible Verses: I feel like God is using His power through me, to help pull in more people to my church, that's why I'm writing this blog, I'm trying to reach the lost and win them to Christ. It's not easy, but I do it anyway, because that's what The Lord wants and needs me to do through Him. This brings me back to my styling job, I guess that the reason for me having this job is because I love fashion and style, and The Lord probably feels like since I have this job, and the fact that I'm a born-again Christian will help me to win the people to Christ, but how can I do that, if I don't even have any clients to do this for? I strongly believe that this whole styling thing, is a big part of God's plan for me and my life, I haven't seen the results yet, but I trust in The Lord that he will reveal all the results in time, I just need to be patient, wait, listen, and keep praying about it, the more I pray about this, the better the results will be in the end. I need to continue to be persistent with God, because that is what He wants and needs me to do. I have to trust and have faith that if this is the Lord's Will for my life, then he will make it happen, and when it does happen, I'll be so excited and grateful to Him for having this styling business be a great success like my sister's photography business is and will continue to be, The Lord just has to be in the center of your life and your business for it to be a great success, know what I mean? This brings me to the next object of this blog entry, I happened to come across this post on facebook, by someone that I don't even know, but she is a born again Christian just like myself, and she has a successful business, do you Know why? I do, it's because she has put God first before herself and her business, and that's why it's a great success, and I hope that it will continue to be. This was what her post said the other day: "Pay attention to those pictures, numbers, songs, patterns, and ideas that you're always getting. It could be God downloading to you a brilliant biz plan!" It was written by Sandi Krakowski, and she made a good point. I couldn't agree with her more, and that's the reason I decided to do my online styling business through Keaton Row with high hopes that it will be a great success like her own business, and other people's businesses as well.
She mentored to another person through facebook about her own business as well, and that is also a great success. So, I know that in the end, The Lord will always provide no matter what you may need or ask for. But you have to ask for it in His will, and not in your own will. It has to be what God wants, not what you want. Do you understand this? I sure do. This brings me to my next subject, during church and through the Sermon yesterday, these words came to mind: "I'm just a born-again Christian whose living in a world full of sin and hate. What can I do to make a difference in this world? This I do not know, but since I trust in The Lord with all my heart, I know that he'll help me to somehow make a difference in this world, even if it's something as small and as simple as a smile, or a hand shake, know what I mean? Where there's a will there's a way is what I always say, do you agree? I hope so. I really don't how I'll do all that The Lord has planned for me, but whatever it is, he'll give me the strength and the power that I need to fulfill his purpose for my life. After all, I'm living my life for Him, and not for myself. If it were up to Him, he would have this entire world living for Him and not for ourselves. The sad truth is that this world is a very selfish place to live in, nobody cares about The Lord or if they keep sinning, if they like it, they'll keep doing it. The people in this world think that we should worship the ground that they walk on, but that isn't so. If anything, we should worship the ground that The Lord walks on, not what other people walk on. It makes me sick honestly, can you blame me?
I know this sounds biased, but I hate the world that we live in, it sucks, and it isn't fun to live in. I'd rather be with The Lord in paradise, than in this hateful, ugly world. I can't wait for the day that The Lord comes back, can you? As soon as he does, those people that I hate and wish would disappear, full of sin, will be shocked and feel like absolute selfish jerks and idiots, people need to change, or I'll make them change. I've had enough of this crappy place and some of the people living in it, know what I'm saying? Yeah, you do, and don't deny it, got it? Thank you, Lord, I love you, Amen!
~Emily
