“But we’ve always done it that way!” 🙄

This year, my ministry—praise God!—continued to grow.

And as I was building different projects, the same thing kept happening over and over: key people who had always supported me and given great advice suddenly weren’t there anymore.

A natural reaction would’ve been, “Why, Lord?” But I’ve seen this way of God before. So this time, I said:

“Okay, I don’t understand. In the past, I’ve ALWAYS built projects with the help of others. No one I know makes big decisions like this alone. No one I know would take on something this big by themselves. But I’m going to do it. Because giving up is not an option.”

And what can I say—not only did it work, it became a source of BLESSING! 👑

Sometimes we have to take new paths to experience God’s help personally!

It was no different for Elizabeth. When John—her long-awaited miracle—was born, the people around her began to murmur because it was the custom to name a child after the father or a relative.

“On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, but his mother spoke up and said, ‘No! He is to be called John.’ They said to her, ‘There is no one among your relatives who has that name.’” (Luke 1:59-61 NIV)

We all know that “but” from others, don’t we? “But no one’s ever done it that way before, or, “That’s not how it’s supposed to be done.”

Maybe that’s not how people do it—but God does whatever He wants. And what He wants is always good for us (see Jeremiah 29:11).

Where do you feel left alone in your convictions? Where have you maybe given in because “that’s just not how it’s done,” even though you can clearly feel that God has placed something different on your heart?

Take a moment to examine your life—and maybe starting today, you’ll begin to walk new paths too. His paths. (See Isaiah 55:8-9).

You are a miracle!