I am so excited to introduce to you The 40-Day Journey! It is your next step guide created from the principles discussed in my book, Shining Freely, and is designed to assist you with putting into practice what you have learned. Through the process of writing Shining freely, I sought to discover God’s design for healing in our lives. But it wasn’t until I came to the last chapter that I realized where the answer to all freedom lies. Being fully free to shine our lights without hindrance, only comes through rest! As you learn to rest in God’s presence, he will free your soul and empower your every step. Let The 40-Day Journey guide you into an experience with God’s heart that will blow you away. Your part in this process is to allow yourself to experience something new. Even if it means letting go of the beliefs and strategies you’ve always trusted.
My hope for you is that your experience with the 40-day journey will lead to a lifestyle change. A lifestyle of dependence on God as your new and improved GPS system. This experience is designed to teach you the art of the pause—pausing in God’s presence. It is an intentional practice of pausing from life to hear God’s heart without distractions. For it is in the stillness of his presence that our hearts become free and from which every God-designed path is revealed.
David beautifully paints this path to restoration and purpose for us in Psalm 23: 2−3 (TPT) when he describes God’s rest:
He offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love. His tracks take me to an oasis of peace, the quiet brook of bliss. That’s where he restores and revives my life. He opens before me pathways to God’s pleasure and leads me along in his footsteps of righteousness so that I can bring honor to his name.
God is offering us a resting place beside him surrounded by his love. An offering means we have to receive it and allow ourselves to experience it. As we open our hearts, he will lead us to an “oasis of peace” far away from the distractions of this world. That is where he will restore and revive our weary souls. It is only when he knows we are ready—fully infused with his strength, power, and presence that he will send us out and lead us on the path he has for our lives. Then full of his presence, we honor him. Spilling over, we spread the sweet fragrance of his presence everywhere we go.
His presence is where our freedom lies, our hearts come alive, and our purposes are set free! Dare to take this journey with me and encounter God in a whole new way. Let him show you who you are so that you can experience the freedom to be all he has created you to be!
Be Bold~ Be a Light