Transitioning To the Promise

While you are in the process of transitioning to your promise, your purpose, I need to inform you there will be transition and that transition can be swift or it can be steady, however it comes there will be transition. Transition is the journey, from the old person and place to the new person and place. A songwriter penned these words, “time is filled with swift transition,” notice the words time is filled which indicates there is not much more in time because transition has it filled. So, how do we deal with transition, well in Joshua 1, by the time we arrive at verse 7, God, have spoken to Joshua and told him to be strong and courageous. I beseech you who are reading this to do the same. You see, the transition is a part of the process and the process is the journey that we must experience to get to the promise, the purpose. I have to remind you that anything that you are set to conquer and possess there will be an enemy already sitting on it. Don’t get scared or discouraged instead be strong and courageous, remembering that in Joshua 1:3 it states, “I am giving you every place where you set foot, exactly as I promised…” There may be times where you have to go ahead and peep out the situation, but whatever you do don’t take folks with you that make problems, things, and man bigger than God. How will you know, when the person walking with you starts naming your obstacles rather than devising the plan then they have made the obstacles bigger than God, please know they have come to the end of the journey with you. Don’t be so concerned about them taking it personal because in fact it is, they don’t fit into your plan because they don’t support your vision for the purpose. When you are on a journey though it can be swift it can be long, so in being prepared that means you have to eat for where you are going, eat even when you aren’t hungry because the journey is long. If you don’t eat, you will get weak, and wear in well doing. Don’t make this journey a race to get there fast remembering that the race is not given to the swift but to the one that endures to the end. So when in the middle of the journey you lose a job, a love one dies, a child has to reigned back in, you have divorce papers sitting on the table, your bank account has gone from overflow to overdraft, it’s all transition. I need you to stay focused and don’t make those things giants, don’t allow them to become bigger than God. Most importantly, I need you to remember that God has already said to you, He would give you exactly what He has promised. Now this is for me, but I am sharing because, I know many are in the same place that I am in; you know that God has called you to a thing and a place, a purpose. Some of you are still trying to figure what it is, let me help you a call doesn’t necessarily mean to preach. You can be called to sing, write, teach, act, parent and the list goes on. You can minister more people every day walking around than you ever could in a pulpit. You see everyone likes to glamourize the pulpit and I am taking nothing from it, but know that it comes with great responsibility and a big microscope. That even when the people don’t see, they are listening to see that you are living how they think you should be, many have even made you God. Yes, that why they leave the church and are so disturbed when the pastors human struggles raises its ugly head. Truth is even when you are chosen, you can still face, lust, depression, you can still get angry and let your mouth get you in words get you in trouble. There will be times that you want to tell God, just how you feel about this transition, because He called you, so why not just make this easy. I leave you now, but I do want to share that when transition kicked my door in, it shook me, BUT GOD. It’s only because I have hidden HIS WORD in my mouth and I meditate on it day and night that I have not succumb to what I felt was a complete violation of my life. I don’t mind being transparent, I told God this is not a part of what I signed on for, why would people want to serve you watching my story? Well, let me tell, all I got was why not you Shon Garner Cole? Did, I ever promise you that you would never suffer? Am I not God because you are hurting and don’t like where you are? You see He didn’t give me an answer or a word; He gave me questions that forced me to call on the word that is hidden in my heart. That word that says, I should count it all joy when I fall into various trials and temptations, that word that says all things work together for good to those who love God. The word that told me that Jesus was in the Garden and said not my will but your will. So, now I say thank you for all who left, thank you for the financial storms, thank you for the sleepless nights, because in the midst of those storms I stood, of course I bent, but I didn’t break, NO, I stood and I am still standing. The winds still blow sometimes not as hard, but they still blow and then there are times when hurricane winds blow, but I stand, why because I remember this, no one will be able to stand up against me, that He will always be with me and because of this I have accepted that I have to transition to the promise. Blessed to be a Blessing, Shon Garner Cole