The only way to find your voice is to use it.
Austin Kleon
Jeff Goins just confirmed in today’s daily post what I heard this weekend, first on Saturday at a women’s retreat, and then during prayer time this Sunday morning.
If you are hearing it three times in three days, its likely a lesson you are needing to hear.
In my case, being reminded i need to speak, to use my voice to its fullest.
I have hidden my voice for numerous years, in part from wounding, in part from lack of direction, the remainder because I stopped listening… I wasn’t comfortable what I was hearing.
Still part of the ‘why me’ I battle with, I confessed yesterday that I have struggled over being uncomfortable with being prophetically wired. And I no longer want to grapple with it. I want to be who I am called to be, despite not knowing how this will look.
So this week, I am taking the time to seek Him. Soak. Worship. Read the Word. Listen. Specifically about my purpose. The voice He had for me.
I had a word spoken over me about being a Proverbs 31 wife.
Being capable of much means you have more laid out for you to potentially do, and need to learn what to let go so for others to do.
As a result, I may be laying down some parts of my work life and letting them go to make room for what God may be wanting me to do now in preparation for what may be ahead.
I know deep within i need to do this, so I can find the voice He has for me to speak with, and begin to use it as He leads.
I don’t like saying no, but I would rather say no to people than to say no to God again, and risk disappointing Him.
Some things we do in this world have no significance in the next.
Our obedience does.
So as I come to grips with how He is calling me to step out and use the voice He has waiting for me to speak with… I am a little apprehensive.
How will this all look?
How will our finances cover the changes?
What will my hubby say?
What will people think?
Looking into the unknown up ahead is nerve wracking, but looking into Jesus’ face, I know He has plans to bless and prosper me as I place all my hope in Him.
I am willing to speak His words.
That’s my part.
How others respond is not my part, it’s God’s.
So there may be some more poems, songs, and or prophetic words popping up in the posts in the days ahead, as I seek hard to find the voice He is guiding me to.
But as we align up with His plans, grace, joy, mercy and oh such love abound.
I said to myself years ago that I never wanted to work in a church, nor travel much. I married a man with the main gift of evangelism, and God is stirring in me to love up on people through my words, song, helps, offering hope and praying for them.
I have no idea how all this is going to work out, if I can be candid.
But I am not called to know all the answers, the future or accumulate wealth: I am called to follow the One who holds it all in His hands, knows it all, and still chooses me.
I am not called to build up my kingdom. but His.
I cannot be my full self until I use the voice He has given me, and begin to sing my heart’s song with all I am!
What a privilege we all have to serve in the individual ways He calls us to.
As we obey, we need to trust God will take care of the rest. We are safe in His hands, and He will guide us each step of the way.
May you too be blessed as you find your voice, to share what God is stirring in you, and where it is for you to speak it out.
KARLA LEES 