Before I start I want everyone to repeat this prayer
“ I am enough, I am called, blessed and highly favored and A child of the most high living God,”Amen and Amen!
As some of you may know, I am 21 years old and in the past 6 years I have encountered a lot of friendships and a lot of those relationships have not made it this far due to the fact that I was being molded into the young woman that God was guiding me to be. In 2016, that is when my walk with Christ started building, I was in church weekly, basically every time the doors were open I was there, now mind you at the time I was only 16 years old, so I was in school, working and still included church into my life so I didn’t’ have time to party, go out to the mall and stuff that the average teenagers would do. So throughout that year my friends saw me as “ inconsistent” because I couldn’t make time to hang out with them. I know, “ people make time for who and what they want to make time for” but that wasn’t the case when it came to me during this season, I honestly just didn’t have any free time for anything. Throughout that year I honestly felt so lost because the people who I thought were the closest started growing away from me and they didn’t understand that Church had became an important asset to my life, I was in a few leadership positions and ended up being on the worship team and If you know anything about worship teams, practices are no joke right? So trying to explain that to someone who wasn’t as active in church as I was, ended up being a struggle and I gave up and ended up thinking I lost those friends when really I had to outgrow them so I could grow and allow God to use me to be a vessel in other places. Proverbs 18:24 says “ One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother” . When I think about that scripture, I sometimes tend to question why those relationships were even put into my life if God knew they were going to be a distraction to me and how I thought about myself but I had to realize that God was testing me to see if I would put him on pause to satisfy the needs of those “ friends” and I didn’t which is why God used me the way that he did, I started speaking in Church, became one of the youth worship leaders and because a student leader in the youth department. I allowed God to shift my friends so that I could be shifted in a better place mentally, physically and emotionally and he did that and I am forever grateful that he did because those challenges allowed me to realize that no matter who we think our friends are, when you start your walk with Christ, you will lose friends and gain friends but we always have to remember that God is our everlasting friend or what I call a forever friend, someone that we can call on in any time that we are in need. Sometimes it is so hard to realize and see that when we have all these distractions in our face but we have to simply remember that he has called us friend.
“I give all my battles to you Lord, guide me through whatever path and allow me to consistently listen to your voice as the worldly things try to distract me , allow me to always remember that my Godly father will never lead astray .. Amen
Preach!!!