Do you ever have days where you don’t know what’s next? Where something big in your life has come to an end, and you can’t see what’s around the corner?
Those are the “Saturdays” that I want to talk about today… like the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. For the disciples, that had to be one of the lowest points in their lives. All their hopes and dreams had seemingly come crashing to a violent end. They had no idea what was ahead.
How do you navigate those Saturdays?
That’s what I talked about recently with my friend Kay Helm. Kay helped me a few years ago when I was trying to get back on track with the funding for my ministry. I had reached the end of what I could do, and Kay helped me create a plan to move forward.
What I didn’t know was that Kay had some of those “Saturdays” in her personal life as well, such as the day her husband left and all she could do was lay face-down on her kitchen floor and cry out to God.
Maybe you’ve had days like that? Maybe you’re going through one right now and you have no idea what’s next.
What did Kay do? She did what I’ve done, and what I’d encourage you to do. She reached out to Jesus. Kay said:
“I didn’t want surface Jesus. I wanted the miraculous, inexplicable, all-powerful-God Jesus.”
That kind of prayer is an invitation for God to do the miraculous. And the answer may not be like anything you’ve ever expected or experienced. Kay continued:
“God doesn’t operate from a template. He never changes, but He always invites us to walk with Him.”
It makes me think of the Israelites in the desert when they ran out of food. God’s next step was to provide manna from heaven, something they’d never seen before. “Manna” literally means “What is it?” Something they had never known before became their bread from that point on… for forty more years.
But then the manna ended. It just stopped showing up one day. What were they going to do?
It turned out that God had something else in mind. He had brought them to the end of that season and into a new one, into a land flowing with milk and honey, a land where just one bunch of grapes was so heavy that it took two men to carry it on a pole between them! (see Numbers 13:23).
What lay ahead was beyond anything they could have ever imagined. As I talked with Kay, I thought about my own situation:
“What if the manna stops because God has a new kind of provision ahead?”
And that thought helps give me strength to press on. God is always inviting me to take hold of His hand and walk it out with Him.
As the Bible says:
“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith…” (Hebrews 12:2).
The same God who saved you by sending His Son to earth will keep on saving you as you walk out your faith in Him. Take hold of His hand today!
I hope you’ll watch my whole conversation with Kay. Here’s the link:
Love,
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