Thriving


A painting with various pots filled with plants at different stages of growth
All exposed to the same light,  same height off the ground, some thriving, bursting with color and growing towards the sun, some wilted, dying and overly bland. 

A pastel painting I was staring at on a Friday evening. Just looking at art and seeing some as fun others as weird and certain ones just down right ugly. Yet, God used this one painting to answer a prayer of how do I  not just grow but thrive with you God?  I have been asking this all summer. Craving more Understanding of how to thrive. And these are the things God said to me:

First, no matter what os going on around you,  you have the same love, wisdom, joy, strength and engery. Ya’ll!!!! Just because you are not a pastor, leader, church planter you are still God’s most amazing child!! The things He has for others He has for you! For me!! 

Then, how you chose to use it is up to you. That is free will
You can blossom where you are or you can be stangnet 
Free will is just this. God spoke this to my heart “All people having the same choice, opportunity to live from Me, allowing Me to flow out of you. The more you allow Me to flow out the more you will grow stronger, taller, braver in your walk with Me.”


      As some one who has ran from God, been scared of Him and just did not know who He really is, this invasion of my soul that I am allowing to happen is kinda scary, very exhilarating and freeing! 

Here I am! 

~Reasa

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