When God Gets Peanut Butter in My Chocolate

I've known for many years now, that God was leading me to write a book. It was one of those things that I heard VERY clearly. However, since that time, I haven't felt like I've gotten any more details or a "go ahead".....well, until now, that is.

I digress for a moment....

I've struggled for the last few weeks; really questioning if I am "doing therapy right", did I somehow "minimize God in all of this", is it too "secular", etc. I've questioned myself to the point that I actually had a little breakdown. The kind of breakdown where you have to call friends to make sure you haven't done it wrong for all of these years.

After my conversation with friends, I was able to let it go let it sit there, not resolved, but not keeping me up at night....once again, until now.

Now back to my story.....

I was sitting in a session where I was referencing the book, Getting the Love you Want. I had just finished a phone session where I was referencing the book, The Bondage Breaker: Steps to Freedom in Christ. One is a secular book and one, obviously, is a Christian book.

Well! I accidentally picked up the wrong book, realized it, picked up the right book, and there was my "peanut butter in my chocolate moment."

I'm sitting in session with a couple, holding one book in each hand: one very secular, one very Christian.....it was a frozen moment in time.

Then I remembered why God told me to do this job in the first place. He sends me the people who don't find him the "traditional" way. They haven't been in church all their lives, or if they have, that deep relationship with Him hasn't clicked.

There's no judgement in this...

Maybe it's because of woundedness....

Maybe it's because of legalism....

Whatever the reason, the people I get on my couch seem to be the people searching for a deeper relationship with Jesus (even though they may not know it) who aren't going to get there the traditional way.

So there's my book.

The middle book.

Not secular.

Not solely Christian.

BUT Christian with a sound therapeutic basis or therapeutic with a sound Christian basis.

Peanut Butter and Chocolate....Chocolate and Peanut Butter.

Who would have thought that the two would go so well together. But, it's yummy! and it's exciting! and it's MOST DEFINITELY needed!

"For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth." (Romans 9:17).

From Yesterday...James 1

James 1:22-25 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

Revelation Whispers!

I love it when God shows me things in the middle of the night....even when it's "a thing" that's hard to hear.

Tonight wasn't a "bad" thing. It was just one of those things where I go "duh"......that's so obvious! And OBVIOUSLY it was something I needed to have brought to my consciousness.

Here goes.....

I LOVE revelations from God - those moments when He speaks to me so clearly that I know exactly what I'm supposed to get, supposed to do, etc. AND, what God "revealed" to me in this night was this....not all guidance from Him is going to be through these glorious revelations.

Many "revelations" will be much less dramatic - they will simply be from the Word.

It was so clear.

"You don't feel connected to Me because you are only open to seeing Me in one way. I am ALWAYS guiding you through Scripture. Don't wait for the dramatic revelation. All of my Word is revelation. I have not forsaken you. Go there for answers."

I've had this urge for the past month to buy a new Bible. I even went and looked at them at Lifeway and my favorite store, Amazon. I was waiting until my birthday to get it with money from my Mom. Now it seems so clear that thought was actually a God whisper, a guidance. It was so quiet I didn't even hear it.

O.K.....God is desiring for me to know Him in the small things, the quiet things, the whispers, the Word.

LOVE IT! It will change my life!

And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. 2 Peter 1:19