4. You Start Seeing Restoration in Others Around You
God shows you what He’s about to do for you by showing you He’s already doing it for others. Don’t get bitter—get expectant.
Scripture: “For with God nothing shall be impossible” – Luke 1:37
What it means: If He did it for them, He can do it for you. It’s a sign, not a taunt.
Imagine losing access to my laugh, my weird questions, my uplifting reminders, the way I see life, the depth of my conversations, my spark and most of all, my love and presence.
I honestly cannot stress this enough but please start living & enjoying your life. Your life is passing by daily and all you’re doing is working, paying bills, & overthinking stuff you can't change. Start taking trips and treating yourself. Have fun with this life. You only get 1
Gotta eat pasta in italy, croissant in paris, burger in united states, sushi in japan, tacos in mexico, shawarma in lebanon, paella in spain, poutine in canada, kimchi in south korea, curry in india, pho in vietnam, fondue in switzerland and fish & chips in united kingdom.
Thailand is really affordable if you book it yourself, hotels are super cheap for 5 stars, flights before everything were about R10k for a return to Bangkok then you take a domestic flight for about R800 return from Bangkok & Phuket, activities were R4k
Mind you this is for a 10 day trip in the country then 2 days in the sky (to and from travelling & a long layover)
Book it yourself, agoda is your friend for domestic flights & hotels, get your guide is your friend for activities & buy flights directly from the airline
I was supposed to go on a 12 day trip next month & spent R16k for all those things excluding spending 😭🤣bought the tickets 3 months before the trip
People avoid taking accountability, then say, “You could’ve just talked to me.” But I couldn’t. You don’t really listen, you deflect, twist things into an attack, and then play the victim. Talking to you isn’t healing, it’s exhausting, draining, and emotionally suffocating. Every time I try to express myself, it feels like walking into a trap where my words are used against me, my intentions are questioned, and my feelings are dismissed.
I don’t think we talk enough about how life-changing a good manager is. Someone who leads well, guides intentionally, empowers your growth, and gives advice that sharpens you can completely shape your career🙌🏾🙌🏾
“I pray all the time, because if I limited the Holy Spirit to a certain number of hours a day, I would be in danger of using Him for my own purpose. If, for instance, I spent one hour a day in prayer, I would expect the Holy Spirit to reward me for that hour. I would begin to feel that it was that hour in prayer that caused the “anointing” in the meeting. No, I cannot use the Holy Spirit in that way. I must practice His presence all of the time.”
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Kathryn Kuhlman #kathrynkuhlman
In the middle of Job's darkest hour, when he was the most discouraged and didn't think it would ever work out, God said to him in Job 8:21, "I will fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy." God is saying to you what He said to Job. Joy is coming, breakthroughs are coming, healing is coming. God will do something amazing. Your mourning is going to be turned into dancing, your sorrow turned into joy. Don't give up on yourself and your dreams!
I don’t know, I just keep coming back to this idea that children are supposed to outgrow you. That’s the whole point, right? You give them everything you didn’t have & pray they run farther than you ever imagined. You hand them a map & whisper…please, find the roads I was too afraid to walk, let the world be kinder to you than it was to me, step into the future like it’s yours, because it is. And honestly, the idea of being jealous of them feels so backwards. Because a parent who envies their child has forgotten the assignment entirely. If my children surpass me, GOOD, that means the story didn’t end with my mistakes. Envy has absolutely no place in a room where you’re teaching someone how to grow. I want them to take every beautiful thing I ever did & every bad thing I survived and use it as scaffolding. Please, climb so high the sun is forced to learn your name. Please, fly so high you never have to look back to see where I stopped. And if all I ever do in this life is give my children the ground to launch from, then that’s enough for me. More than enough.
25 Things to Do Alone with Jesus
1. Sit in silence next to a closed Bible and ask Him to speak first.
2. Read Matthew 6 out loud and offer your worries as a sacrifice.
3. Pray for your future husband/wife and children, even if you don’t know who they are yet.
4. Take a walk without headphones and imagine Jesus walking beside you.
5. Ask Him to choose a page in the Bible and open it without overthinking.
I am doing my Bible study that I begun in January and I am in the book of Numbers…
You see, while reading the story of the children of Israel from Egypt… I just become mad like, what is wrong with these people?
God showed them everything.
He delivered them from slavery.
He parted the sea.
He fed them when there was no food.
He led them with a cloud by day and fire by night.
What more proof did they need?
But then… just a little hunger…
just a little discomfort…
just a little fear…
And they start murmuring again.
Complaining.
Doubting.
Forgetting.
And as I kept reading… something shifted.
It stopped being about them.
It became about me.
Because how many times have I done the same thing?
How many times have I panicked over bills…
like God has never provided before?
How many times have I stressed over food…
like yesterday’s provision didn’t happen?
How many times have I run to people…
begging, explaining, exhausting myself…
while forgetting that my help has never truly come from man?
The truth is painful… but necessary.
Sometimes we don’t lack evidence of God’s faithfulness —
we lack memory.
We forget too quickly.
We forget the prayers that were answered.
We forget the doors that opened.
We forget the days we had nothing… and somehow still made it through.
And just like the children of Israel…
we allow present discomfort to erase past miracles.
But God has been consistent.
Even when I had no stable income — I survived.
Even when things didn’t make sense — He made a way.
Even when I didn’t know how tomorrow would look — He carried me through today.
So why do I still worry like I am alone?
Why do I still act like God is only faithful in the past… but absent in the present?
Maybe the wilderness is not the problem.
Maybe the problem is what the wilderness is revealing in me.
A heart that still struggles to fully trust.
A mind that easily forgets.
A spirit that sometimes looks at the situation more than it looks at God.
But today… I choose differently.
I choose to remember.
I choose to remind myself that if God fed me yesterday, He will feed me again.
If He made a way before, He will make a way again.
If He sustained me without a clear source, then He doesn’t need one now.
God has never failed me.
Not once.
So I refuse to let temporary lack make me forget eternal faithfulness.
Lord, help me not to be like Israel —
seeing Your hand, yet still doubting Your heart.
Teach me to trust You… even when I don’t understand.
Teach me to rest… even when things are uncertain.
Teach me to remember… even in the wilderness.
Because the same God who brought me this far…
is not about to leave me now.