During your waiting season, God does 3 things. He prunes, prepares then promotes.
Someone may ask, why does it hurt? Well, pruning is removing anything dead, damaged, or can compete with your growth. Preparation includes stretching ensuring you have room for said growth. Both come with a little pain because here’s the hard truth. Some of you have stuff in your background that’s damaged, dead, and competing with your purpose.
You break down when folk don’t show up like they promised. It’s a trigger to all the times people didn’t show up for you in your past or you were abandoned. You’re afraid of letting go because times before nobody was there to catch you. You’re angry from all the things you’ve had to experience and it wasn’t even your fault. The depression, self-doubt, fear … you’ve got to heal otherwise you’ll bleed all over the folk God sent you to lead.
God needs you beloved, but He can’t send you as you are. Otherwise, you may damage those God sent you to deliver. God can’t position you in leadership and you’re still getting mad and acting out of character when things happen. Baby, things will happen and you have to know how to handle it. Yet, you can’t if you’re still being triggered by stuff you’re afraid to cut away.
God needs to prune and prepare you, otherwise what you’ve been sent to grow, will die. That’s why the waiting season is important, but you may miss it while complaining instead of confirming God’s plan for your life.
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How are you waiting?
Lakisha, the Author 