When God calls you, He calls YOU. Not you and your cousins or you and your home girls. I get that sometimes you want people by your side or you want to put your (brother, sister, friend, man, cousin, uncle, nephew etc on) but some opportunities God is opening the door for you and you only.
Once you walk through the door then you will be in the position to open the door for others but you have to be willing stand alone first. Learn to receive your opportunities and accept the favor God has blessed you with. When you do this, you’re not being selfish because what you have been called to do, no one else can do. You have your purpose and everyone else around you has theirs. It may not be in God’s will for you to take the whole world with you during this season of your life.
It can be fearful to stand alone because it will lead you to uncomfortable territory. But it’s in those very moments when you are standing alone that you get closer to God and you grow in character. God wants you to learn to depend on Him and only Him. It’s easy to say you trust God when you have an entire army of people supporting you but can you say that you trust Him when the calling over your life has taken you into a season when you’re alone?
Before Jesus started his ministry, He fasted in the desert alone for forty days. During that time, He experienced His greatest temptations from the enemy but He didn’t bend. If God Himself had to go through a season where He had to endure being alone, then what makes you believe that you’re the exception to the rule? When that season comes, you’re right where God wants you to be because your fellowship and dependency on Him will become unbreakable.
While in His wilderness, Jesus had no one else to rely on but His father. That’s where His strength came from. Prior to this He was baptized in water by John the Baptist. He didn’t say, “John, are you going to come with me through this wilderness?” He knew that in order to fulfill His purpose, He would have to go at it alone for a while. It was after that time where He began to gather His disciples and when He did, He called them each by their individual name. These men had families, homes and jobs but once they got the call, they answered.
God wants to show off in your life but you have to be willing to let Him. Trust God enough to take care of your loved ones during those seasons where you’re “going at it alone.” He will fulfill His will over their lives. Those who truly love you will understand. Of course, you’re not to become self-absorbed but when God calls you, He has your gifts, talents and abilities in mind; not your entire “squad’s.”
It’s time to become the woman that God has called you to be so you can honor what God has called you to do. You are not alone, He is with you!
