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Spring Forward

The Manna Chef

It’s that time of year when we move the clocks ahead one hour.  I’m sure we all know some people who dread Daylight Saving Time because, in their minds, losing an hour of sleep equates to missing out on something in their lives.  Yes, our sleep patterns will be interrupted for a bit, but we will adjust.  Sisters, I want to offer you a different perspective in this season.

We may be a little sleepy over the next few mornings, because daylight is coming an hour earlier—but that sunshine (SONshine!) will be glorious.  You now get to experience daylight for a longer period of time each day.  Sisters, it’s time to shift in the spiritual as well as in the natural. 

It’s time to shift our thinking and our level of expectation.  Winter is coming to a close, and spring is just ahead.  Spring is a reminder that God is making all things new in our lives. 

And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then He said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”  (Revelation 21:5 NLT)

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Be Grateful for What Is

The Manna Chef

Sisters, why do we allow ourselves to find comfort in dysfunction?  As I was having a conversation recently, it occurred to me that we spend an awful lot of time thinking about how things used to be, longing for those things and people who were not good to or for us.  We sometimes decide that although a situation (or job or relationship—you get the picture) is less than desirable, at least we know how to function in it; we know how to navigate through that chaos. 

Let me say this right now—you were not designed to just exist in dysfunction.  You were designed to thrive as you walk into your destiny.  Sisters, it’s time to take that leap and walk into freedom.  You can choose to stop longing for what was and flourish in what is while you manifest what will be!

We are not so different from the children of Israel.  In Numbers 11:4-6 (NKJV), they had gotten tired of the manna God had provided and found themselves longing for what they ate while they were in Egypt.  Mind you, they were enslaved in Egypt, but here they were longing to be back with their oppressors. 

Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat?  We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”

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