Nazarite Call

Hello there eager readers. It has been a very busy few weeks. It’s been non-stop going. I am very tired. But there has been a lot of amazing stuff that has happened in the past few weeks. So many things have happened it would be hard to write it all down. One of the things that God has really been teaching me personally in the past week (we’ll go for the short term) is resting. We’ve been going so much and have so many things to get done that I’ve been getting stressed out about all those things. I haven’t had a lot of time to spend time with God, and the time I did have I spent worried and stressed. So God has really been saying to me to rest. It’s really been quite neat too when God speaks to me. I’ll be talking to Him during worship or in my journal and He’ll tell me something, and then He’ll confirm it the next day by someone saying it. That’s been one of my stuggles is I speak to God but I feel like the response from Him is me making it up. He’s been confirming that He is speaking to me. For example. This weekend on Saturday I didn’t really do much. I was planning on doing research because we kind of have a bit of a research project. But I didn’t do any research that day. I was just so tired from that week. It was so busy. I just felt like lounging around. Which is basicly what I did. But after I really beat myself up for not being productive. That’s one thing that I often do is I get mad at myself for resting when maybe I need the rest, maybe I need a day of not doing anything. Anyway. So I was frustrated. I went to the prayer room to let out my frustration to God. I was talking to Him in my journal. I was asking ‘Why can’t I have a day of rest and not be productive without stressing or worrying about everything I’m not getting done? Why can’t I just rest without beating myself up?’ Then He said to me ‘You need to learn how to rest in me. Just rest in me and not worry about all those other things in your life. You don’t need to worry about that. Just rest in me, then you’ll learn how to relax and not worry. When you rest in me I take away all the worries of life.’ So… I told you that lately He’s been confirming that He’s speaking to my by other people saying things. Monday morning, in our morning devotion, Jeremiah decided to take a different route. We’ve been going through the book of Matthew but he decided to read from Ephesians. What he was saying on Monday was that usually somewhere in the program everyone (in the program) hits a brick wall. You can do one of two things when this happens. You can stuggle and strive to try and get over or through this brick wall, or you can just surrender to God and just let Him take over; to just stop striving and just rest. Now that was my confirmation that what I wrote in my journal was from God. God has been doing so much of that. So I know that I need to just rest. When things get really busy and I have so many things to do, just don’t worry about. Just allow Him to help you to get those things done. It’s been amazing. I definitly think that I’ve hit a brick wall, and I’m choosing to let Him take over, allow Him to do the work. I am tired of striving. So that is my message to all you who are reading. Just rest in Him. He will direct your path. You don’t have to worry about all the little things of life. He is so much bigger than all those things. His yoke is easy and His burden is light.

God Bless

Ericka Bent