chapter ten 
chapter ten When we do something we’ve never done, we find something inside we never knew we had.
Before we move on to the final two stages of the Purpose Map, let’s do a recap of the first three stages. We started off in Discovery, learning about how The Rules enter our life and condition our thinking. I shared my elementary school experiences to help you connect with how The Rules you learned may have shaped your perception of yourself and where you believe you do or don’t belong.
Then there is the Talent Stage. Here we pick a lane to travel, a mountain to climb, and a path or career that becomes our identity. For me it was achievement—winning competitions, getting good grades, competing on television, and becoming a lawyer. I challenged you to think about what path-picking looked like for you.
Next, we stepped into The GAP together. This is a season of transition—a place known as the “in-between.” Most women I know are in (or about to enter) The GAP right now, but the goal is for it to become a space that equips you to shift—a canal that advances us into our calling, not a purgatory. My shift began with leaving my law firm, starting a sports agency, and trying (unsuccessfully) to make that mountain my new identity. Then betrayal forced me out of my Comfort Zone. In The GAP, we have to do the work of unlearning and letting go of whatever’s blocking our bigger.
As we escape from The GAP, shifting our way through the Growth Zone, we eventually cross over from here to there, and enter life in the Glory Zone. While the Comfort Zone, comprised of the Discovery and Talent stages, was about who we’ve been, the Glory Zone, comprised of the Gifts and Influence stages, is connected to who we are becoming . . . our calling and higher purpose.
You’re entering your where . . . your promised land, space, and place. You discover in the Glory Zone that you possess what you never fully knew you had. You’re brilliant in areas you didn’t know existed, and needed in ways you couldn’t have calculated. When you surrender your agenda and exchange ambition for anointing, there are no limits to what God will do through you. None.
In the Glory Zone, we learn how God has uniquely pre-equipped us to bless others and to change lives like only we can.
MAKING ROOM FOR DESTINY 
When I called off my wedding, I had already shut down my sports agency. Though I’d found myself with my back up against the wall a few times in life, this was different. I felt empty. Incapable. And wounded.
I knew that I had to forgive my ex-fiancé if I wanted to move on. Forgiveness is the only way forward. I believed that . . . but I couldn’t do that. Not right away. Don’t let people or religiosity make you feel guilty because it doesn’t happen in an instant. Deliverance isn’t magic. I kept showing up each day. I kept committing to dumping the dirt out of my heart. I discovered that forgiveness isn’t just about focusing on forgiveness. This was big for me.
Forgiveness can become a self-defeating obsession, especially when everyone is telling you over and over how you have to forgive, but no one tells you how. I wouldn’t say I’m an expert on this topic. But I found that when we replay our worst memories, we re-wound our self-esteem and re-anchor ourselves in the past. Replaying, masked as trying to forgive, is why it can be incredibly hard to get unstuck.
The key to forgiving is to stop praying about the problem and to start visualizing the solution.
I asked God to give me a new vision of myself and to make me a woman able to walk in forgiveness and trust, and not bitterness. Forgiveness is more about the future than the past. And I stopped setting a timeline. Being patient with yourself, yet still intentional about how you approach each day, really works. Progress, not perfection.
I’m not advocating ignoring your hurts. I put my little tush in therapy every week, sometimes twice a week, for over a year. But I focused daily on a new vision, not on the past. Moving forward was a better investment of my energy and put me on the path of healing and elevation.
It might seem too soon after heartbreak or disappointment to start praying for a bigger vision. You’ll feel like the right thing to do is pray about what just happened to you. That’s a trap. Pray for what you want to come to you. Don’t keep rehearsing what’s already been removed! We know God uses disruption to get us to His greater, so pray for a bigger vision. A vision bigger than blame. Bigger than the mess. And bigger than your feelings. Feelings aren’t fact . . . they’re fickle.
Your future, however, that’s eternal. You have to speak life into what you seek—not the suffering you’ve seen.
SIMPLE PRAYER
God, show me your bigger vision for me.
Show me the higher version of me.
I prayed that prayer day in and day out for ten months. It wasn’t pretty. And I didn’t feel like it most days. Remember, I wasn’t sure how I was going to pay my bills. But just days after the “almost-wedding,” new started to knock at my door. Unsolicited speaking engagements started coming in. I had been a paid speaker for years at this point, but that same year I called my wedding off and closed my sports agency was the year my then management company mismanaged and spent the money I had earned that year! They ran into some hard times, but didn’t let me know until it was all gone. So I wasn’t making money from my sports agency because I had followed God’s leading to close it down . . . and the money I had earned wasn’t available because of mismanagement. It’s water under the bridge now, but it was a tough year. A really tough year.
So when speaking engagements, well-paying ones, started coming in the door, I knew I could indeed take the time to heal. God provided. He was able to work with seeds I’d already planted over the years. That’s the beauty of obedience; it positions us to experience overflow right when we need and least expect it. I didn’t have a gazillion speaking gigs—I wasn’t traveling every day of the week like I had been in the past—but I had more than enough. I made enough with just a handful of bookings in the first three months of the new year to ensure I’d be able to pay my mortgage and keep the lights on for the rest of the year.
That gave me peace of mind. It also gave me room to heal and to discover new passions. And a chance to just hang out with God and myself. I didn’t go seeking purpose. I wasn’t in a hurry to figure out how to help others. That’s not how I found my calling. I needed a break. Too many of us rush into “rescuing the world” when our inner world needs recharging first. It’s our inner mountain-climber on autopilot. We have to manually override our default “do more” setting. I committed to self-care, learning how to smile (yes, that takes intention!), and how to have fun again.
Having fun is important, because finding your calling starts with committing to joy. Take that in for a moment. Joy is our most beautiful and most dangerous asset. Now that might not be what you were expecting to hear, but finding joy is how I tapped into God’s business plan for me. It turns out entering God’s business is exactly what He intended . . . literally.
GOD IS IN THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS, TOO After my failed engagement, I spent ten months bathing in self-care, reading books about identity and God’s voice, sticking with my therapy sessions, going to the gym, discovering new restaurants, finding a new church named Victory (go figure!), reconnecting with friends, going to every movie on the planet, and just living. It was difficult at first to know what to do with my time. I only knew how to fill my plate with projects and goals. I didn’t know how to live my life. So it took a while to detox until I entered into a place of enjoyment.
I was thirty years old at the time, and I can honestly say living for enjoyment was a first. Enjoyment was different than the thrill of achievement. Enjoyment, however, creates a new, optimistic, and centered state of being. If we commit to entering it, it travels deeper than achievement and busyness, and it’s stronger. It’s healthier, divinely stimulating and cleansing for the soul. Soon I was hopeful about the future, and I started to dream again.
And then another lightning bolt struck my soul, while I was in my kitchen. It was two words: Marketplace Women. I grabbed a pencil and piece of paper and jotted them down right away. I made the “t” in the word marketplace a cross. And I felt a stirring for helping women to be successful in business. Specifically, women who loved God and wanted to fulfill their calling. Initially, I assumed it would be a ministry of some sort, something I would do on the side. I had been successful in various businesses, and during this time of self-reflection, men and women alike were constantly asking to pick my brain over lunch.
I had been doing regular commentary for CNN, Fox Business Channel, and ESPN—and I taught myself how to book television appearances. How to pitch producers, craft talking points, and how to get rebooked and become a regular. I had inked endorsement deals with major companies like Rolls-Royce, Nike, Tiffany & Co., Sprint, and PepsiCo for my athlete clients. I hadn’t had any previous experience in this, but I figured it out because that’s what the clients needed and I needed to keep my clients! In the process, I uncovered a skill and a knack for branding and business that I hadn’t known I had. And other people started noticing as well.
I saw all of the “can-I-pick-your-brain” requests as a sign that I did have something valuable. It just so happened that my real sweet spot had nothing to do with my degree. I continued to ask God to reveal his bigger vision for my life and my next step. With that lightning-bolt Marketplace Women revelation in the kitchen, it started to come together.
I was preparing to deliver a keynote for Doreen Rainey’s Get Radical Women’s Conference. My product table was set with my books and I was ready to go, but I felt a wave of emotion and knew I needed to go up to my hotel room quickly. I started to cry—I can’t tell you why. That just happens when you’re heartbroken and emotion sneaks up when you least expect it. I didn’t have much time, so I got myself together, put some eyedrops in, and touched up my makeup. I suited up again—put on my smile, headed back down in the elevator with my head held high, took the stage, and talked to the women about reinvention. God definitely showed up and grace carried me through that talk. It was the first time I’d ever given a talk on the subject of reinvention—and it wasn’t what I had planned to speak about at all! But during that little trip up to my hotel room to get some tissue, my message became clear. I remember one key statement in particular—it was something I still say and teach—but it was fresh manna delivered in real time while I was on stage that day:
My goal isn’t to change who you are. That’s not what reinvention is about. My goal is to help you change what you do so you can finally be who you are.
When I finished the keynote, I rushed to my book table and hugged hundreds of women—selling out of books, too! That always feels good.
On the way home, I told my good girlfriend Valorie Burton (who was also speaking at the conference) that I felt this next season of my life was going to be about reinvention—helping women to reinvent their lives. I knew this was a divine thing. Remember, I had never wanted to work with women in the past. But now I couldn’t wait to help women step into their full potential and align with God’s original intention for their lives.
I had no idea how to make this happen. But I said it out loud. I said it on stage. I said it to Val. And my pencil became my microphone as I sketched the phrase Marketplace Women on a random piece of paper alone in my kitchen.
Giving fresh voice to a fresh vision is the way we give that vision permission to grow.
A few days or weeks later, I got an email from a friend of mine, Jonathan, who was passing along a video series he felt would be valuable to me and my future. So I watched the videos. I didn’t just watch them . . . I devoured them!
I pulled out a baby-pink spiral notebook, a blue ballpoint pen, and then stayed up all night in my home office taking notes. I didn’t sleep. I had been chillin’ for months and I’d finally found something that sparked my attention! At some point in the wee hours of the morning, I started seeing blueprints in my head. That’s often how vision comes to me—I see blueprints.
So I did what I always do. I grabbed another pencil and drew out boxes, arrows, sequences, and lines—whatever I was seeing my head and mind—and mapped out my vision.
I started learning about the world of life and business coaching. I had always thought life coaches were silly! At the time, I didn’t see it as a “real job” and certainly not an elite profession. I didn’t understand what they did, and I had no clue what went into business coaching. But I realized I did have insight valuable to offer, and needed to be open to a new way of sharing beyond traditional speaking. I had success in getting sponsorships, getting high-net-worth clients, securing media and publicity, negotiating contracts, landing corporate clients, and branding and marketing. I gave really great advice that actually got results. Plus, I had been doing communication and presentation training for Miss America and Miss USA contestants and pro athletes for years now. What did I have lose? I started with what I had and with what I knew, and trusted it would be enough.
Others saw it—but now I was starting to see it, too.
I taped the piece of paper with the pencil-sketched blueprint of my big vision to my bookcase and saw it every single day for the next several years. I never moved it. It was my road map. On it, I’d drawn plans for events, mentoring programs, products, books, television, and even a publishing and apparel company. It was the blueprint for an entire empire on a single piece of paper drawn with a #2 pencil.
It was not a formal business plan, but this was the plan. Fresh from Heaven.
I started planning a women’s conference for the next year. The desire to do something like that kept coming into my spirit. I hadn’t ever held a conference before, so I figured I’d just put together a small workshop for about fifty people in the interim. That way I could start making some money, start helping people, and get my feet wet before launching bigger.
The workshop was called ME University—The Ultimate Business & Branding Bootcamp. I can’t even begin to describe how nervous I was in putting this idea out there. Normally, I would have been out there guns a-blazing, but I was hesitant. I needed a win. I didn’t know if my heart could survive another failure when it was just starting to beat on its own again.
I contacted a colleague I’d met while speaking at another conference a few years prior—actually the same event I met my ex-fiancé at, come to think of it! My colleague’s name was Brian Tippens, and he was in leadership at HP—Hewlett-Packard. He was always polite and insightful but had never green-lighted anything I pitched . . . yet. Maybe this time would be different and he’d consider HP sponsoring my boot camp! I knew from landing and negotiating endorsements and sponsorships for my pro athlete clients that these deals are very much relationship-driven and that they could take time. Which it did! Five months of back-and-forth . . . of checking in and hoping for a yes.
I was pretty darn good at putting sponsorship proposals together, but on this pitch I created a mock flyer so Brian could see how we planned to integrate HP into our marketing and branding of the event. I look back at it now and realize how gutsy ’n risky that was! It could have come across as really presumptuous. After all, we didn’t have the deal or the commitment—but I believe in vision and making it clear so that others can literally see it and connect to it, too.
And, then on August 13, 2010 (I still have the email!), I got a yes! HP was, at the time, the eleventh largest company in the USA on the Fortune list. They were investing in me financially—and they donated computers, training materials, bags, staffing, and more. I booked the W Hotel the next day as my venue, and the boot camp was officially on! Now, I just needed to actually get some attendees.
THE NEXT YES I aimed for fifty people to attend that first event. The first person to buy a ticket was a longtime family friend, Phyllis Jenkins. I called her Mrs. J for short. Listen—I would have given her a ticket. She had known me since I was five years old. But she didn’t ask for a hookup. That ticket cost $1500 (way more than I’d ever charged—or invested—at the time!) and she paid for it in full. I can’t put into words what that did for my confidence.
She was an elementary school librarian at the time but had a dream to start sharing her message in a much larger way. The yes from Brian and HP had given me the courage to take that final step and commit to the hotel contract. The yes from Mrs. J let me know that I had taken the right step. At least one person would be in attendance! About thirty-five more yeses came through. Not bad—especially for my first rodeo. It looked like we would have a workshop on our hands!
I’m sharing this with you because people often think entering your calling is easy or is just about an epiphany. But, it’s not.
Awakening must be followed by action.
It’s scary and at moments it can be snot-flinging ugly. If it’s not stretching you, you’re not fully on that higher path. But the process of trying something new showed me that people couldn’t say yes to something I had never offered. They couldn’t say yes until I put myself in position to receive a yes. And you’ll be shocked and blown away by those that believe in you and have been waiting for you to come out of hiding. Mrs. J was the first customer to invest in what would later become my seminar and coaching business.
I put that other big women’s conference on hold and felt the Holy Spirit leading me to focus on what was immediately in front of me—growing ME University. It wasn’t just supposed to be an event—it was to be a full-fledged enterprise. That initial two-day event with thirty-five people grew to over one hundred the next year . . . two hundred the year after that. Then it grew to three hundred and four hundred attendees, with everyone investing thousands of dollars each to listen to me teach and train. I never had any of this on my radar.
I had sold-out conferences. A new team of staff members. Mastermind coaching groups where I’d mentor women (and some men who weren’t afraid of pink) on how to brand themselves in the business world. That first sponsorship deal with HP (later HPE) would continue for seven years (and counting). I signed other corporate partners, like Home Depot, Office Depot, Ernst & Young, Delta Air Lines, Black Enterprise, and more. I couldn’t see this life and these possibilities on those days I wrestled with depression . . . the days where it was almost impossible to get out of bed. They hadn’t been on my radar, either.
I went from not knowing how I was going to pay my bills to running one of the highest earning coaching companies in the country. The money isn’t at all the point. It’s certainly a blessing to be able to pay your bills, give bigger, support missions (which I love to do!), and live without financial stress. The point is the power of purpose. When you dare to believe bigger and take a step, even if it’s shaky, it’s amazing how radically different your life can become even when it seems in shambles. And it’s amazing how your purpose really does make appearances earlier in life.
As a child, I used to get in trouble for talking. That caused me to doubt my voice, but it turns out my voice was the very bridge to my calling and this season of next-level assignment. And I didn’t initially want to work with women because of the lack of support I’d experienced from women in leadership, but they were my calling. You might be missing your mission because of a mess and bad memories, too.
Greater purpose is almost always hidden behind a place of pain.
God embeds purpose in the last place we’d think to look because it takes faith and trust to go there. Let that sink in. The unlimited is hidden inside the unlikely. And it confuses little me and the enemy, too. Little me thinks your wounding is a sign disruption is winning. But it’s not. It’s developing a next level of destiny within you.
YOU KNOW IT’S A GIFT, RIGHT? In the second year of my coaching and seminar business, I led ten women in a business mentoring retreat. The retreat was supposed to be an intimate professional gathering, but really it turned into a revival. The women (myself included) each left with clarity and newfound, fresh focus. Some were stay-at-home moms seeking more meaning, while others were career women ready to shift into their calling, and monetize their insight and talents. All were in transition—they were in their shift.
“You know it’s a gift, right?” That’s what Judge Eileen Olds, one of the women, told me during the morning bathroom break. I just kept saying, “yes ma’am” and “thank you.” She kept saying it all day. Truth is, I didn’t know what the heck she meant! I figured she was just being polite and was giving a you’re-doing-a-good-job compliment. And, at the time, I believed I was just teaching business principles. Really, I was unlocking.
That’s what I call it now. Today, I can see that Judge Eileen was referring to the way I could easily help people figure out the best way to say something . . . pretty much anything. Whether it was coming up with the perfect tagline or title, or helping them to clearly identify and communicate in a compelling and captivating way what value they offered to the world. I didn’t have to prepare. It flowed effortlessly. The moment anyone shares what they are struggling to do, it goes into my brain like a complex code and comes out simple and clear. I was always good with words—coming up with my platform back when self-esteem wasn’t “good enough” actually helped me to figure out messaging. I know how to say stuff in a way that works and gets to yes in almost any arena—especially business.
That’s how I ended up with $200,000 in academic scholarships—learning how to get to yes and craft messages that mattered and resonated. I call ’em money messages. I paid my way through law school by coaching Miss America and Miss USA contestants with their platform messages, résumés, and interviewing skills, too, with a company called Communication Counts! Still, Judge Eileen’s compliment took me by surprise.
I saw message crafting as an ability (something I could do), but I didn’t really understand it as a gift (something I was called to do). It came so easily that I didn’t know to truly value it.
As the day went on, there were tears . . . lots of them. It kinda freaked me out. There are no tears in business—at least that’s what the fellas had taught over the years! But God unleashes things you never imagined or intended. This retreat became such a spiritual experience . . . and in a boardroom of all places. Mushy stuff is not what any of the women came for. They came to talk about business—how to make more money. Instead, we discovered something better than business. We found destiny. I say we because I unlocked it in myself, too. Let me tell you something.
Destiny discovery is totally unpredictable.
This little boardroom had become a delivery room. It was a safe haven to shed fears, dream forbidden dreams out loud, and to give ourselves as women guilt-free permission to be strategic about ourselves. This was destiny-mapping. And God loves destiny. He planted eternity in our human hearts for a reason:
Yet God has made everything beautiful [and appropriate] for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
—Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT).
Here’s the really crazy thing. While I was helping these ladies find their path, I stumbled upon mine. As I was helping them to believe in the beauty and rarity of their voice, I found my own.
You don’t find your calling on the sidelines. You find it once you’re in it. It’s not something to be explained . . . it’s something to be explored. Destiny is not an intellectual exercise. It’s experiential.
God reveals your brilliance while you’re building the bridge . . . not once you’ve gotten to the other side. The act of building up and pouring into others creates benefits for all. As you help others discover something new, you discover something unexplainable in yourself, too.
Over time, I realized that messaging—helping others find their voice personally and professionally—was a gift. A spiritual gift at that. It wasn’t listed in the Bible with the gifts and fruits of the spirit. I thought divine gifts were limited to healing the sick, giving, prophesying, and speaking in tongues. No one in all of my thirty plus years of church had ever taught me differently.
But the truth is, there are no limits as to what God is able to do in us and through us. Just because our eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, and minds have not yet comprehended the anointing and immeasurable hope to which we’ve been called, that doesn’t mean we haven’t been called to it. Remember, God doesn’t want our purpose to be a mystery. He wants us to have mastery. The key to understanding and entering our calling is found in unlocking our gifts, sharing them with others, and then developing them. Catch that order. We develop our gifts as we share them, not before.
So you see, we don’t “find” our calling. God calls us, not the other way around. Our role is to get out of our way long enough to hear the call and surrender to it. Entering your calling doesn’t happen in theory or by doing research, it emerges in the stretch and during faith steps. That’s how you end up in the thick of it.
CALLING SIGNS So this is how I found my calling—or how I got out of the way so it could find me. In the process I learned a few things.
First, I am a teacher. I never realized and internalized it before. I heard Heaven whisper it when I was stewing at my desk at eleven years old in the sixth grade. But now I understand that “teacher” is at the core of my identity, and I believe it to be at the core of your identity, too.
Second, calling (our mission and specific assignment) becomes clear when we’re giving, serving, or imparting something . . . when we’re making others’ lives better. It’s not an intellectual exercise, it’s engagement.
Third, we each have a voice, and our voice unlocks the voice in others. When I did work for legal aid, I was serving as the voice for those that didn’t have a voice. Later, I was helping Miss America and Miss USA contestants, pro athletes, politicians, and even big brands figure out how to get their message across—how to share their voice in a way that communicated the depth of their vision. I gained an appreciation for voice and how divine it is. More on that in the remaining chapters.
Fourth, we can’t be intentional about something we don’t realize we have. This is huge. And this is where accessing our Inner Vault comes in. I didn’t value this “messaging thing” because it came naturally. I wasn’t trained in it and I didn’t go to school for it. We often overlook our area of significance because we don’t think of things that come easy as being connected to our calling. We tend to value what we have to struggle to acquire. That’s why we esteem degrees and careers—things with clear titles and things we had to earn. But, as we’ll soon see, gifts aren’t earned. And, titles can become idols. Gifts have to be developed, but at the core, they were given in grace before we took our first breath.
Finally, mentorship is at the heart of higher purpose. Sharing what we’ve learned, putting our insight and genius to work, and sharing our story and abilities with others—that’s the ticket into the promised land . . . both for you and those you’re assigned to.
People often ask how I knew I was actually in my calling. That can be a tricky question because I firmly believe you can be in your calling or on assignment (meaning you’re where God needs you at the moment) at different times in your life. Entering a season of calling doesn’t necessarily mean you were in the wrong place before. It just means you’ve been recruited to go and serve someplace fresh . . . and you’re being invited to experience something awesome and new.
I’ll share in the next chapter more about your master purpose and how it, along with your gifts, guides you in this season of calling. But how did I know I wasn’t just in another random lane this time? These indicators helped me to know that I was in my assignment:
1. UNPREDICTABILITY. It wasn’t on my radar! God loves to surprise us. Calling—your specific assignment—isn’t predictable.
2. CONFIRMATION. It aligned with the new vision God had been hinting at for some time—esteem-building, branding, and business training for women. There was convergence of both passion and proficiency.
3. IMPACT. I was making a real difference in the lives of other women. This was what God meant when he said I would change the lives of women like never before. Well, I had indeed never done this, yet their lives were elevating and transforming in dramatically different ways. And it wasn’t just what they were learning about how to start and grow a business—it was their walk with God that was growing, too.
4. JOY. I loved the chance to love on women. To help them believe bigger and live bolder. I loved the rush of ideas I’d get for others, I loved praying with them, I loved teaching and mapping out business strategies and messaging. And I loved discovering I was a coach at heart—unlocking my ability to do what my twirling coaches and mentors had done for me. To push others past their blocks and fears and to find unique ways to pull out greatness. I loved it and still do.
5. RESULTS. I was good at it. Coaching and teaching seminars were new to me, but they ignited and resurrected my original spiritual gifts—things like messaging, packaging, and presentation. And it gave me a chance to discover my spiritual walk as a catalyst and teacher, too. When your gifts unlock others’ gifts, then that’s when you know you’re in your calling. Give yourself a chance to explore the untapped parts of you.
6. FREEDOM. I didn’t need permission to do it! I didn’t have any rules I had to follow. I only needed God’s voice. We don’t need permission to do the thing God has already commissioned. Jesus was a rebel and a threat because He didn’t idolize protocol. He didn’t fit in, nor did He try to fit in. He followed the Holy Spirit, which isn’t usually the same thing.
I finally understood that moment in my kitchen, when I’d made the “t” in Marketplace Women a cross. Business really was God’s business. It was and is an avenue for us to cross over into His higher purpose. God anoints whatever He wants—even the realm of business—to fulfill a purpose and plan only He can orchestrate and amplify.
Getting to love what you do isn’t a luxury for a Believer, it is a necessity.
It’s like air—only we don’t know it until we’ve breathed it. I’m not talking about career, mind you. You can have career and calling at the same time. Careers are man-made. Calling is God led. For Mary, carrying Jesus wasn’t a career! It was being available for the unpredictable—that’s calling, honey. It’s being in alignment with where God needs you. Calling calls forth the best of who you are . . . not just what you’ve learned to do. It will intimidate you, but alignment brings you joy and fulfillment—a sense of significance success can’t even touch.
I’ll say it again—God loves, loves, loves to surprise us and to send us to places that seem out of reach. That way we rely on him to give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and the type of supernatural strength for the next level that can only come from cleaving to His voice and being in His presence.