Do you need more time for this than others?

"It's JUST jet lag. Stop making a fuss..."

When someone in my friend group said this after I had flown through three time zones within a week, I realized how much it irritated me.

On one hand, I thought, "That's right, Déborah. Stop making a fuss. Just convince your body to readjust immediately," but on the other hand, I realized that the jet lag hit me harder than ever and I was completely exhausted.

friend, I’m usually the type who would say, “Stop making a fuss and keep going,” but at that moment, I realized that God wanted to show you and me something…

Where are you being told, “Come on, friend, stop making a fuss!” Or… where might you be saying that to yourself? Where do you currently need more time than what’s considered normal?

Do you know who definitely took too much time before doing what would have been normal if he had just believed? Jonah. He even did the opposite because God said to him, “Go to Nineveh,” and “Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction!” (Jonah 1:3 NLT). Haha.

Did God give up on Jonah because of this, or abandon him? NO. Even when people let you down, God will never let you fall! God was SO PATIENT and GRACIOUS with Jonah that He brought to completion what He had planned for Jonah from the beginning!

friend, I don’t know where you’re taking longer than normal, but I want to encourage you: Where human patience ends, God’s grace begins!

So today, do what you can. Take that one step, maybe not in the direction people expect from you, but that one step towards God. Towards prayer.

Because through prayer, He will give you what you lack.

You are a miracle!