THE WORK YOU’VE BEEN YEARNING FOR

When you’re doing the work you’re here to do it won’t matter if you’re not feeling it, have no idea where to start, are wondering if maybe you made the whole thing up and therefore need to burn it all to the ground, you will STILL have something to say.

And you will still be able to show up, serve, and where relevant, sell.

This is not to say there shouldn’t be times where you keep that mouth shut, fingers away from the keyboard, give yourself rest or perhaps space to dream.

But there is a difference – and a discernment which you absolutely do have – between a day or season when you need that, and a day or season when what is actually needed?

Is to be the outpouring anyway.

I love the reminder from John 15:5 that without Jesus we can do NOTHING. That in order to even BE (right) we need to remain in Him, and Him in us.

Paul speaks in Corinthians about being strong in weakness due to the grace of God, and Joel 3 instructs the weak to say I am strong.

None of this is about empty affirmation, and it’s not wishful thinking.

It’s not about hyping yourself into your work, your creative flow, or really anything in your life.

It’s about the simple fact that being who God called us to be does not at ALL depend on US being in any kind of circumstance or state, and it certainly doesn’t depend on us having the wisdom or the will.

What it does depend on?

It’s our simple yes and Amen to the things God has already given us, has promised us, and is doing in us even now.

If I was left to my own devices I would work myself into a puddle or a so tightly wound wreck I’d eventually snap at everyone and everything, and find myself hating then destroying the very thing I’d built at worst, or living in continual exhaustion and creeping hopelessness at best.

I should know, because I did it.

And in the end?

I did let it all implode and in a sense be destroyed, before it destroyed me.

So maybe that was the ‘at best’ outcome in the end!

The world is never going to stop teaching us to chase more.

More of who we could be.
More of who we should be.
More of what we apparently need to be.

It is never going to stop driving you further down the path of self-sufficiency.

It will never tell you you’re done, complete, made whole.

How CAN it, when by definition it is a place with no ending, no redemption, and no possible point at which human will or way can create an outcome which actually FILLS?

I spent years chasing outcomes, and for the most part getting ’em.

Do you know what? It was pretty epic, in a lot of ways!

But it was without true substance.

And it came at the cost of ME.

If I would have continued, it would have come at the cost of eternity.

It is literally impossible to pursue success, accomplishment, worldly validation or enoughness without ending up in idolatry of some mix of money, fame, and self.

If you think you are the one to somehow balance it all and only show up or seek from a place of true alignment and purpose …

by definition you are wrong.

YOU can’t do that.
WE can’t do that.
We do not have the power, authority, or ability to walk the right path.

So by definition, if the thing you are backed by is YOU …

well firstly, hi, that’s satan behind the door, because self-sufficiency is his domain; no exceptions …

and secondly,
that’s not what we were designed for.

Not me.
Not you.
Not any of us.

We are not MEANT to back ourselves.
We are not MEANT to be the ones figuring it out.
We don’t HAVE to know how.
In fact we don’t even have to know where to start!

All we need to do?

Is submit our will and way afresh and say “God have your way here. Thank you for this day, and I give it rightly back to you! YOU do what you want with it! I’ll just say yes and I give you that yes again now! In Jesus Name. Amen”.

In a literal ‘how do I live right / choose right / create right / show up at ALL today’ sense, what this might look like is that you sit there.

And you sit there.

And you sit there.

Feeling empty.
Dry.
As though there’s nothing in you which could possibly be of any purpose in your business. Your ministry. Your life.

Yet for some reason you sense that today is NOT the day to turn away. You sense the rest God is calling you into today is the rest of trusting HIM to carry the load. To pour through the thing.

And so you simply …

submit.
Afresh.

“Lord have your way here. I’ve got nothing”.

Can I tell you?

I have written for you from this place too many times to count.

I have shown up and taught from this place too many times to count.

I have even created entire courses from this place too many times to count.

And so I can also tell you this –

1) It doesn’t get easier.

For all my years of practicing letting the message be the message regardless what I thought or felt, and giving it to God to cause the outpouring when I didn’t know how, I STILL wrestle with uncertainty, a flat or dry spirit which I then make to mean maybe I’m meant to do nothing, the resistance which I have learned is often the plans of the devil trying to dictate my destiny.

2) It’s super super easy.

Because actually all you need to do is sigh it out, groan it out, scream it out, definitely pray it out, and then simply be who God called you to be anyway.

Pride wants to have its way and insist that it SHOULD be on me. It HAS to be on me. So ME needs to get in the vibe, summon some kind of perky proper thing up, get its act together.

And it sounds so sensible. If looking through the worlds eyes.

But pride is a spirit.

It causes us to pursue the idea of being our own god.

It promotes “I can and I will!”

It sounds so enticing, too!

And it absolutely can generate outcomes. Impressive ones, by the worlds standards! Even a lifetimes worth.

Which is, frankly … terrifying.

Because its very DNA is exhaustion.

And the god of self?

Belongs to darkness.

And to separation,

from God.

And from Jesus, our saviour, and the only one who did and can on a personal level for each of us cause the striving to be FINISHED.

What’s scary is that even as a believer …

if you do not submit (yes, daily, per the Word!) to your own inability,

and BECOME once again the vessel of the Lord,

your eternity in Christ may be secure,

but you can live THIS earthly life separated from God nonetheless.

Can I ask you a question?

When you consider your work right now, your vocation, your call?

Is it what God is causing in you?

Or is it separation,
exhaustion,
“soon I’ll be there”,
and the endless pursuit of more?

The thing is …

YOU don’t have to figure out how to align.

You just need to recognise.
Repent.
And say yes God. Yes.

Broken.
Empty.
“I’ve got nothing”.
“Have your way in me”.

THIS,
is the path of the outpouring.

THIS,
I believe.
Is what you’ve been yearning for.

Now don’t forget –

Life is Now. Press Play.

Kat

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