One year ago…

This week I’ve been playing a lot of “one year ago.” You know, where you sit around and ponder what you were doing this time last year. Obviously, I’m doing that this week as this was the week that Starlet made her entrance (Sunday is the actual date). This was me one year ago…

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And while you can expect a Starlet recap soon, this isn’t the post.

While I was rocking Starlet tonight and reflecting on this year I got weepy (yes me) at all that God has done for us.

About a year ago, EP big contract was coming to close. There was all this talk that it would be extended and blah blah blah, but both of us had in our spirit that something wasn’t right. So much so that we even didn’t purchase a car that we both really wanted. (But thats a whole other topic) Around this time I began asking my BSF group to pray for provision that God would put us right where we needed to be.

Imagine my surprise when we got a call about a film when Starlet was ONE WEEK OLD! The film was in Kentucky and would be six weeks of EP being gone. EP came to me and said, “This film is all your call. I won’t take it — say the word.” I began to pray but it didn’t take long to hear the answer. Here I had prayed over and over for provision and God was handing us our provision. The problem? It wasn’t my idea of good timing. Reluctantly, I mean REALLY reluctantly I told him to go. He left when Starlet was four weeks old. I mean, we still had no routine, Stunt Boy was still adjusting to evenings…it was crazy MANY MANY nights (and days for that matter) of both kids taking turns crying…but i KNEW he had to go.

Once EP got there, within days actually, the call came in that the contract we had been hoping would be extended was on hold indefinitely. I was angry, I was sad but then I was relieved. God once again knew right where we belonged. Had EP not taken that job, had I told him to stay, we would have had no income whatsoever 5 weeks after Starlets birth. None-zip-zilch! But since we yielded to the Holy Spirit and took everything to God in prayer we were provided for!!

We have rights as believers (and especially as tithers)…. Jesus already overcame the devil on the cross so that we may, among many things, PROSPER! The enemy cannot continue to steal from us. We must often stretch out of our comfort zone for God’s true greatness can be shown. Where is he telling you to go that you aren’t going?? Imagine if you obeyed….