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Field Note: Remember. Trust. Wait.

October 3, 2017 Tia McNelly
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I was working on my homework for my women’s Bible study this morning and I was all over the book of Genesis. God keeps bringing me back here through various avenues. He seems to be driving home a couple of key messages this week. 

Here’s one:

As I read the culmination of Joseph’s story I was really inspired by his grace for his brothers and the comfort he took in God’s sovereignty. Not to mention the beginning of his story where he was a pretty big schmuck. We have his story to look back on and remind ourselves that through all of life’s circumstances, God is working. When nothing makes sense or in our humanness, we can’t understand the "why", God IS working.

We have to remember His past faithfulness, trust that His ways are higher, and wait with hope. I really believe that to be the path to peace in this life… (Read Isaiah 55 for further comfort.) I’m in such a place of waiting and trusting as I put myself out there with Collected. I've asked two other women to jump into the unknown with me and the enemy wants me to doubt and feel pressured to strive instead of peacefully remembering God’s faithfulness and promises while I trust and wait… but, as Heather Land says, “I ain’t doin’ it.” Haha!

I love that God encouraged my resolve in a moment of doubt this morning with a little note-to-self from four years ago. A Facebook memory from 2013 said, "He was faithful yesterday. Why would I not expect the same today and every day?  #remember #trust #wait"

BTW, I’m not going to give you a synopsis of Joseph’s story because it builds from the very beginning with Adam and Eve. I’d love it if you’d go and read it for yourself. The entire book of Genesis is a real page-turner portion of the Bible, so you won’t regret it. Also, in case you’re wondering, I’m working through Angie Smith’s survey of the Bible called Seamless. HIGHLY Recommend!

God’s word is such a source of reassurance and comfort. If you are anxious, worried, confused or discouraged— OPEN YOUR BIBLE and pray for God to speak to you. I promise you, He will do it.


What's God showing you this week? What are you studying? Email me at hello@tiamcnelly.com or start a conversation in the comments. I'd love to hear from you!

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In Microblog Tags Genesis, Trusting God, Waiting well, Joseph, Remembering God's faithfulness
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Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love—but the greatest of these is love. {1 Corinthians 13:13}

Why is love the greatest? Because God IS love. (1 John 4:16) And of faith, hope and love, only love is everlasting. 
Faith and hope are fulfilled in eternity. 
Only Love is exactly "on earth as it is in Heaven". If Love is the greatest and Love never ends, let's make Love itself our top priority. .
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A few times in recent months I've had this visceral thing happening that's really difficult to explain. The best way I can describe is like this: deep in my gut I experience the feeling of preaching with fire. It's intense & emotional. It's a forward movement of pouring out from deep within, almost like vomiting, but from my spirit, instead of my body.

The message is about the Father's great love & our true identity as His children. I can almost hear it breaking the chains of legalism & behavior-based justification. And it's somehow urgent.

I can't fully explain this feeling that has come over me several times recently because it's not natural. It's something in my spirit that only I can sense, I guess. 
Around the same time this started happening, I was invited by a Kenyan ministry that partners with Winds of Grace (the church network I work with in Kenya) to lead a women's conference in a slum in Nairobi this April. Then! Krista Blalock, the co-founder of @flourishkenya asked me to help her facilitate a staff retreat & pilot a new family support program. 
From the moment these opportunities were presented to me, I've said that I'm so willing & I feel God calling me in a different way than usual, but that I have no way to fund the trip & I'm trusting God to provide. 
I've felt so strongly in my spirit that I'm not supposed to set up a support page or beg for donations. I'm just supposed to put it out there & believe that what God wills, God funds. To His glory alone!

If you're the one He wants to use to pour out provision on the $3,500 need, email info@flourishkenya.org and work it out with Krista. That's the simplest way to do it. 
Yeah, so I'm posting this once in all the places and praising Him for the blessing while it's still on the way! I sense that it won't take long & that He's already set His provision in motion. He's such an abundant provider! 
Thanks as always for praying for the ministry God continues to call me to in Kenya. Please keep me covered in the coming months because there is so much going on in my life, both professionally & personally. -T 📸 @sethsniderphotography
These are my two favorite pictures of me from recent years and they were both captured by Allison Graham.

She is my favorite photographer to shoot with because she sets me at ease, makes me laugh and captures who I am in a way no one else can. 
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Sundays are for worship! It's time for us to gather together in awe of our holy God.

Go celebrate His love with your local church this morning! Attend a worship service with an open and expectant heart. He loves to meet with His people. Go and tell Him how you see Him. Even if that's messy, He can take it. All you have to do is show up.
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Serve and worship the awe-inspiring God. Recognize his greatness and bow before him, trembling with reverence in his presence. {Psalms 2:11 TPT}

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By the way did you see the verse of the day? “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven. {Matthew 5:14‭-‬16 MSG}
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I just have to share this week's episode of #thecollectedpodcast over here. Listen, go read 1 Samuel 25 and then listen to episode #15 with Tim Flachman.

YOU GUYS. "Sometimes destiny approaches looking like doom." #abigail #digfordivine #collectedworkshops #getyourselfcollected #obedience #abundance #businessasministry #sayyestogod  #livebeyondyourself  #isaiah58 #lovelysquares #petitejoys #nothingisordinary #liveauthentic #flashesofdelight #creativityfound #creativepreneur  #calledtobecreative #gritandvirtue #thehappynow #thatsdarling #communityovercompetition  #graceupongrace
Most of us are making a fresh commitment to nourishing or bodies with nutritious food this time of year.

You could also make a commitment to nourish or spirit by reading your Bible every single day. Open the pages with a desire for His presence and the expectation that He will speak to you. There is nothing that will impact your mood, relationships, movation, and understanding more than studying God's Word. It is an endless provider of revelation, encouragement, direction, and above all, HOPE! /// Start here:

Colossians 3:16 (CSB)  Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

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Tonight my friend Emily P. Freeman, co*founder of hope*writers, is hosting a live training for writers called “How to be a Working Writer Without Losing Your Mind.” Sometimes writers can get discouraged and begin to believe that there’s just no way forward in their writing without selling their soul or changing their personality or becoming a cartoon version of themselves.

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