3.21.24 - Stepping out on faith
Good morning ,
I want to start today's email by asking you "what holds you back from being obedient to God?"
For the longest time it was control. I wanted to be in control of whatever it is I was being asked to do. I wanted to "decide" how I was going to get to whatever God was asking of me.
Well, after several times of me needing to take control, I finally realized that God was better at control than I was. I stopped needing so much control and started having this overwhelming sense of fear that things just wouldn't work out. The truth is I didn't know "how" they could work out because God never gives all the details upfront, so I just assumed things wouldn't work.
God has placed it on my heart to do some very specific things. It's not time for me to mention all of them now but one of the things he told me to do was to start a Faith Series on my Youtube Channel.
He gave me the first 4 videos to record and it took me weeks to make the first video. I was so scared. I finally pushed through and I have 3 videos uploaded :)
The whole purpose of this is to share my personal testimony in bite size pieces (because it's a lot) and while doing so remind people how important it is to have a relationship with Jesus. In between these videos I was uploading BTS of running my business and sharing my skin care products.
I had a conversation with some friends of mine and they lovingly told me that I needed to narrow down my focus on my channel. I was so torn. I knew what God was asking me to do, but I wanted to use Youtube for my business as well. Why can't I have both? The next day I called my best friend to catch up and she was asking me how things were going. I was honest with her and told her the real reason why I was afraid to narrow down my channel. I was scared that if i didn't share my company that my business wouldn't have the opportunity on Youtube to grow. Like God can't do more with my less. I've learned this lesson before but clearly I still need to be reminded.
I don't know why obedience is so hard but if we want to please God, we must be obedient. Yesterday, I removed over 100 videos from my YouTube channel and the page is strictly about my faith journey and sharing my testimony. The amount of relief I have is hard to put into words. This journey is bringing healing to me and I have faith that it will bring healing and inspiration to others who watch it.
Today I as typed this email I thought about how at the end of last year God told me to strictly focus on NC4Y and to let the wholesale run without me doing any additional marketing. It sounded crazy but I did it and you know what - wholesale has not skipped a beat. God knows what he is doing. This entire situation has helped to remind me that faith is something you do daily. You don't just have it one day and your faith cup is full until the end of time. This world has a crazy way of tipping your cup over every day, so we constantly have to be going back to God to increase our faith.
I wanted to share this story with you because I know so many people who struggle with this. I'm looking forward to once again seeing how God blows my mind and uses my testimony to help spread his goodness.
I appreciate you being a part of my community. It's always more than skin care :)
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Love,
Danielle
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