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In this episode, we dive into what it truly looks like when your present circumstances aren't reflective of your expectations for yourself. We examine the heartache of this reality and how it may lead one to being frustrated with God. As Damesha divulges a trial she found herself in, in 2020, she takes you on the journey of when she found herself in that exact position. This is not a place where the Lord desires for us to stay though, so how are you supposed to move forward in confidence on the path the Lord has set forth for you? We're so glad you asked!

Three ways that one can live out their God-given dreams:

Determine your desires

• Some believe that the desires of our heart align with that of the Lord naturally because they are placed there by God.

• Its crucial for us to make the distinction between the desires of our Spirit and the desires of our flesh.

• Ex: It may be a desire of yours to be married. Your flesh may tell you to settle though with any person that seems as if they’d be a good catch. Your spirit man though will inform you to be patient and wait on who God has for you.

Take it to God in prayer

• Its one thing for us to desire things and go after them in faith, but it’s a different level of faith when we take these things to God in prayer.

• Taking our goals and dreams to God in prayer allows us to partner with God in the things He has for us.

• “Okay God these are my dreams. These are the goals I have to reach. How can I partner with you on this?”

Release the expectations

• The only expectation that we need to have is that God will act according to His word and His will for our lives.

• Because you may have asked for something and didn’t receive it, doesn’t mean that God is a liar. It just simply means that whatever that thing is, wasn’t apart of God’s will for your life.

• Rest and trust that whats for you, wont past you.

*Scripture References

• "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55: 8-9 NIV

• "The smallest family will become a thousand people, and the tiniest group will become a mighty nation. At the right time, I, the Lord, will make it happen.” - Isaiah 60:22 NLT

• "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end." - Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV

• "And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord." - Luke 1:45 KJV.

This season of the podcast is in loving memory of Misty Roseman. Forever in our hearts. Rest well. We love you.