I am an OVERCOMER...
I am an Overcomer
Wow!!, I first want to thank God for you, this site and a new found Sister in Christ Leesha Hall. Upon her telling me about your Network and me beginning to complete the profile, wondering who should I join as, myself of my business. It all lead to a REAL Conference right there. So I am going to share this because it is so new and so fresh.
A few weeks I was invited to join a Network. Upon my going to that Network to join, I thought I would take a look around in it first to see who was there and kind of just check out the network first...conversations etc. As I went back to the profile to join, when I got to one of the profile questions about me, I got stuck right there and thought I would go back into the network, to kind of see what kind of answer the network owner was really looking for. After checking out a few of what I called "Heavy Hitters" / "Big Dogs" some of whom I consider friends and associates in the Social Networking Arena, I thought I had it all correct as to what the network was looking to receive about me and thought it was ok to just talk about my business, for my only reason these days on the internet is to promote other peoples businesses along with my own. So I did not see a need to talk about me. As I completed the profile and pressed done, here pops the screen that it has to be approved. Wow!! I could hear the Holy Spirit telling me at that point, that this network is not for you, that the owner was not going to approve my entry. Well a few minutes went by and yep, I got the email that it was not approved and I was sooooo crushed...Well they did not want to hear about my business, but about me. They wanted to know me first and my business 2nd...Well I guess that was ok, it that was why I was joining the network, but I was not joining to talk about me and so I thought I would go back into the network and look once again to see what the other women was putting in the about me section. Well I could not figure it out...I felt so discriminated against at that time. Of course at the same time, I could hear The Lord saying so clearly, that you do not belong there...Of course I was still questioning that, saying to God, but they said that God lead them to start this network and I knew the information that was going to be shared there was going to be some powerful information and good for me to share with others also and I also felt like, if this is God, how would he not allow me to be apart...How could she deny me like that...Well I came to grips with I did not belong there and finally had to understand that just because it was good, did not mean that I belonged there. Well trying to make a long story kind of short. I said let me focus on what God has given me and of course I did not feel I needed not one more network. Well upon joining this network tonight my Sister Leesha Hall and I had a REAL Conference right there on the phone and God allowed me to know and realize what my hang up was as to why I did not want to really talk about myself in joining that other network. I had looked at all the other women, who had all these degrees etc behind their name and of course I did not have all of that. I know that if I could have put all the real life experiences behind my name it would had added up to the same or more, but nope, I did not do that. But tonight I realized that God has trusted me with some of His most valueable assets and it was all because He trusted me with those things and that He had blessed me with gifts and talents and that I have found favor with Him and He had given me favor with men and had set me up with things that those with the degrees should have had, but that He had chosen me. I have not joined that other network and will not be joining, because God confirmed in me that it was not for me.
I guess what I have learned from this situation is that God is in control of my life and what He has for me is for me and that I do not have to be ashamed of who I am, because I belong to Him and everything that I have, and that I am, He made me and gave me. Rejection really hurts, but I am thankful tonight for deliverance, because I am not ashamed of who I am in Christ.
When turned away from and by others, I have and am learning that God has something else, better and greater for me.
I pray that this will help someone else along the way in knowing that what God has for you and for you and just hold on to God in the face of rejection by man. So today I strive to be pleasing to God and to be received by Him.
God Bless!!
A few weeks I was invited to join a Network. Upon my going to that Network to join, I thought I would take a look around in it first to see who was there and kind of just check out the network first...conversations etc. As I went back to the profile to join, when I got to one of the profile questions about me, I got stuck right there and thought I would go back into the network, to kind of see what kind of answer the network owner was really looking for. After checking out a few of what I called "Heavy Hitters" / "Big Dogs" some of whom I consider friends and associates in the Social Networking Arena, I thought I had it all correct as to what the network was looking to receive about me and thought it was ok to just talk about my business, for my only reason these days on the internet is to promote other peoples businesses along with my own. So I did not see a need to talk about me. As I completed the profile and pressed done, here pops the screen that it has to be approved. Wow!! I could hear the Holy Spirit telling me at that point, that this network is not for you, that the owner was not going to approve my entry. Well a few minutes went by and yep, I got the email that it was not approved and I was sooooo crushed...Well they did not want to hear about my business, but about me. They wanted to know me first and my business 2nd...Well I guess that was ok, it that was why I was joining the network, but I was not joining to talk about me and so I thought I would go back into the network and look once again to see what the other women was putting in the about me section. Well I could not figure it out...I felt so discriminated against at that time. Of course at the same time, I could hear The Lord saying so clearly, that you do not belong there...Of course I was still questioning that, saying to God, but they said that God lead them to start this network and I knew the information that was going to be shared there was going to be some powerful information and good for me to share with others also and I also felt like, if this is God, how would he not allow me to be apart...How could she deny me like that...Well I came to grips with I did not belong there and finally had to understand that just because it was good, did not mean that I belonged there. Well trying to make a long story kind of short. I said let me focus on what God has given me and of course I did not feel I needed not one more network. Well upon joining this network tonight my Sister Leesha Hall and I had a REAL Conference right there on the phone and God allowed me to know and realize what my hang up was as to why I did not want to really talk about myself in joining that other network. I had looked at all the other women, who had all these degrees etc behind their name and of course I did not have all of that. I know that if I could have put all the real life experiences behind my name it would had added up to the same or more, but nope, I did not do that. But tonight I realized that God has trusted me with some of His most valueable assets and it was all because He trusted me with those things and that He had blessed me with gifts and talents and that I have found favor with Him and He had given me favor with men and had set me up with things that those with the degrees should have had, but that He had chosen me. I have not joined that other network and will not be joining, because God confirmed in me that it was not for me.
I guess what I have learned from this situation is that God is in control of my life and what He has for me is for me and that I do not have to be ashamed of who I am, because I belong to Him and everything that I have, and that I am, He made me and gave me. Rejection really hurts, but I am thankful tonight for deliverance, because I am not ashamed of who I am in Christ.
When turned away from and by others, I have and am learning that God has something else, better and greater for me.
I pray that this will help someone else along the way in knowing that what God has for you and for you and just hold on to God in the face of rejection by man. So today I strive to be pleasing to God and to be received by Him.
God Bless!!
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