Now Is The Time For God

Has God put a ministry in your heart that you have been waiting for the right time to launch?

Now is the time.

God is calling those who are His elect to come forward and trust Him like never before. He is taking care of destroying the “security” that the world system has lured so many of His believers into thinking that they are safe as long as their money was okay. No more.

Now, more than ever people are realizing that the world does not work and they are searching for the deeper meaning of life and turning to God and His Kingdom. This is the time to reach out and create opportunities for believers to come together and move beyond where they have ever been.

This is the time to write that book (and self-publish, of course). This is the time to get your speaking packet together so you can bring your message to ministries and groups around the country and world. This is the time to work on getting that product idea that helps people feel encouraged and strengthened in The Lord to market.

Whatever it is you have been called to do but have not taken the full steps toward walking it out, it is time. Just think of how much glory you can give God when He meets your action and does it for you in these “tough” times.

Don’t even allow yourself enough time to stop and look around at the panic of the world and talk yourself right out of your calling.

I remember a similar panic eight years ago when I launched my ministry. I left my job in total faith just 11 days before 9/11 without a single penny saved. The entire country almost completely shut down.

If I had listened to what the world was saying I would have remained in a job that was literally making me sick and I would have never stepped out and moved forward in obedience. I knew that moving toward God could not be any worse than my life already was at that point.

It is truly worth everything it takes to share the God in you with others -it is worth everything. If you can just stretch enough to believe God for it, it will be done for you.

Love,

Ericka

www.erickajackson.com

Out With the Old

I have been in a very strange place the last couple of days. It has felt like some sort of “in-between” space. In between the old and the new. The old episodes of my life have closed and  new episodes are opening but they are not quite a wrap just yet. God is still getting them in order to fully manifest. Yet, I feel like this is exactly where I need to be. The old was about unknowingly carrying the burdens of day-to-day life. The new is about learning how to carry the “hugeness” of the vision God planted within me without it feeling heavy and challenging. What if I could just flow into this and watch what God is going to do?

So, I put down experiencing single motherhood as heavy – no more. I put down any remaining “making it happen” for fully trusting God. The truth is that I was tired. I was tired of carrying everything and I really thought I had already given it to God. But as I found out, I was still trying to carry too much. I picked up letting God do it – all of it.

I simply did not have it in me anymore. It was time to fully get in “the flow” of God and allow Him to work daily miracles in my life. And it feels so liberating! The funny thing is that I thought I was already liberated, but in reality, I am just on my way, not there yet. I realize that this is right where the glory of God can truly show up!

I pray that you can experience this incredible liberation, too. When I remembered that God created me to live without worry, I realized just how off I was from being liberated no matter how far I think I have come. Here are a few steps you can go through to get fully liberated:

1. Take an inventory of your life and notice if you are feeling stress or worry.

2. Admit that you are carrying too much and trying to do too much of what God was created for.

3. Stop it. Stop doing the old. Stop living the old patterns that keep getting you what no longer fits you.

4. Move one thing off of your plate to make space for creating your new patterns and choices.

5. Show up when you promised yourself you would show up. This is the toughest step of all because keeping our word to ourselves is the toughest part yet. But, developing this self-control is imperative to your walk with God.

Let me know how it goes. Love, Ericka.

www.erickajackson.com