God Inside of A Bumble Bee
This post is more of just sharing an experience I had that I want to remember in detail as long as I live. It's about a bumble bee, that carries so much meaning to me. It's always the little things that mean so much!
Rewind : So last June I went on a mission trip with my church to Queretaro, Mexico for a week! It was beautiful..We got to clean and paint churches, share our testimonies in front of multiple groups, and I was even able to share a short sermon over relationships! In the midst of it all, we were at this outside patio restaurant and a bumble bee comes flying by my dessert. He stays right by my side until I leave. I was all around him and he didn't move for the longest. My hands and face were right beside him being cute and annoying lol. The picture to the right was in Mexico last year! I honestly felt so cool haha!
Fast forwarding to 3 days ago, Monday.
So I talk to God now, a lot. Everyday. He is my best friend. He has done more then proved His loyalty to me. I am naturally happy because of Him. And NO ONE can take this joy away from me! There have been times where the closet people have truly hurt me but I couldn't even be sad for more than 5 minutes because He just wouldn't allow it. It's like my flesh and my body naturally want to be sad but in my mind, heart, and soul I just can't. His Love overflows in all of me.
With that being said, Monday night I had a longer than usual talk with God in my car. (I recommend God talks in the car, it's quiet and you can even put music in the background to truly get your feels out lol.) So honestly, I was crying out to God. I wasn't really sad or anything. It's more of being so thankful it brings you to tears. Sometimes I feel like I may have no one to talk to, but Him. He is just such a Real Friend. Some people can't understand my expression of this because they don't see God as the friend I see Him as. They don't see Him talking back to them or doing an excessive amount of blessings in their life. This is because they haven't truly seeked the Father with all their heart. They rarely talk to Him and when they do, they talk to Him with no feeling and just a list of life. The time they do talk with feeling is when they are completely broken. I know this because it use to be me.
Jeremiah 29:12-14 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity."
A relationship with Him wasn't always easy for me, mostly when the devil hates that you even interest in God so the devil will do anything he can to keep you distant from a relationship with God. Once you continue to nurture you relationship more and more with Him you really see the bigger picture. Your eyes truly open. You are filled with so much goodness; patience, love, hope, joy, peace, positivity, content.....and so on.
ANYWAYS, lol. One thing I asked on Monday was that I wanted to physically see Him, feel, or hear Him with my natural eyes, ears, touch. This is a lot to ask for but at the same time it's not because he is a giving and spoiling Father. It's like I love Him so much that I just wanted more! So my prayer ended and it kinda slipped my mind that I asked of that later on.
Yesterday after work I went to the beach to take a nap lol and have prayer time in this book I am reading "The Art of Listening Prayer". It's like daily prayer time to really work on hearing what God is saying! My oh my, I am on day 9 and I have literally heard God speak to me each day! (You need a journal for this, and you really have to be willing to focus).
So on Day 8, it was talking about communicating with God, " Focus, Repent, Ask, then Listen." After the short reading there are questions that you ask God. These are the questions where you truly focus and you will hear what He says in your mind. I will share my answers.
Are there areas of my life where I have kept things from you?
"Anything that is little, still matters"
What can I do to deepen our relationship?
"Seclude yourself"
Is there a scripture you want to show me?
Okay with this question, I first heard him say Isaiah.....then I heard 51....then I heard 2-12.
Right after I wrote the scripture down, a bumble bee landed on my prayer journal. Like. Right After.
I didn't think anything of it yet.
Then I read the scripture, and WOW, that was the same scripture me and my prayer fam prayed over like a month ago. We spent a whole night praying over this scripture.
The bee stayed on the same spot of my prayer journal for like 30 minutes. At the same time I'm all moving my hands around the bee and kissing the bee haha acting like it's my real life pet haha. The sun was going down and my phone died so I was leaving. The bee stay on my journal and I am legit walking to my car with the bee lol.
The bee is now in the car with me! After about 5 minutes, he buzzed away.
You can say that it was nature all you want, but I know in fact that was God. (I mean isn't it funny that the bee is right beside the word GOD lol but don't mind me I'm probably crazy hahaha)
It's the little things...be watchful for them. Most people would swat the bee. I could have been careful and put in my mind that the bee would sting me because naturally it could, but when it's the presence of God, you just know.
It's really legit crazy and amazing how God works in your life. He is so clever!
Even if you don't feel like He is listening or you aren't feeling any feedback, just keep working with Him. It took me a long time before I started hearing and feeling Him, but it takes being ready for that kind of level. Remember that God is so much more than this world, his language is on deeper deeper levels then what our natural flesh can see and hear. So sometimes, He is talking to us, but since we are so stuck in the patterns of the world, our ears are clogged.
If you need help in your prayer life, or scripture, or just have questions, I will do my best to answer anything!
The devil HATES PRAYER!
AND WHATEVER THE DEVIL HATES IS TRUE POWER.
Fast forwarding to 3 days ago, Monday.
So I talk to God now, a lot. Everyday. He is my best friend. He has done more then proved His loyalty to me. I am naturally happy because of Him. And NO ONE can take this joy away from me! There have been times where the closet people have truly hurt me but I couldn't even be sad for more than 5 minutes because He just wouldn't allow it. It's like my flesh and my body naturally want to be sad but in my mind, heart, and soul I just can't. His Love overflows in all of me.
With that being said, Monday night I had a longer than usual talk with God in my car. (I recommend God talks in the car, it's quiet and you can even put music in the background to truly get your feels out lol.) So honestly, I was crying out to God. I wasn't really sad or anything. It's more of being so thankful it brings you to tears. Sometimes I feel like I may have no one to talk to, but Him. He is just such a Real Friend. Some people can't understand my expression of this because they don't see God as the friend I see Him as. They don't see Him talking back to them or doing an excessive amount of blessings in their life. This is because they haven't truly seeked the Father with all their heart. They rarely talk to Him and when they do, they talk to Him with no feeling and just a list of life. The time they do talk with feeling is when they are completely broken. I know this because it use to be me.
Jeremiah 29:12-14 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity."
A relationship with Him wasn't always easy for me, mostly when the devil hates that you even interest in God so the devil will do anything he can to keep you distant from a relationship with God. Once you continue to nurture you relationship more and more with Him you really see the bigger picture. Your eyes truly open. You are filled with so much goodness; patience, love, hope, joy, peace, positivity, content.....and so on.
ANYWAYS, lol. One thing I asked on Monday was that I wanted to physically see Him, feel, or hear Him with my natural eyes, ears, touch. This is a lot to ask for but at the same time it's not because he is a giving and spoiling Father. It's like I love Him so much that I just wanted more! So my prayer ended and it kinda slipped my mind that I asked of that later on.
Yesterday after work I went to the beach to take a nap lol and have prayer time in this book I am reading "The Art of Listening Prayer". It's like daily prayer time to really work on hearing what God is saying! My oh my, I am on day 9 and I have literally heard God speak to me each day! (You need a journal for this, and you really have to be willing to focus).
So on Day 8, it was talking about communicating with God, " Focus, Repent, Ask, then Listen." After the short reading there are questions that you ask God. These are the questions where you truly focus and you will hear what He says in your mind. I will share my answers.
Are there areas of my life where I have kept things from you?
"Anything that is little, still matters"
What can I do to deepen our relationship?
"Seclude yourself"
Is there a scripture you want to show me?
Okay with this question, I first heard him say Isaiah.....then I heard 51....then I heard 2-12.
Right after I wrote the scripture down, a bumble bee landed on my prayer journal. Like. Right After.
I didn't think anything of it yet.
Then I read the scripture, and WOW, that was the same scripture me and my prayer fam prayed over like a month ago. We spent a whole night praying over this scripture.
The bee is now in the car with me! After about 5 minutes, he buzzed away.
You can say that it was nature all you want, but I know in fact that was God. (I mean isn't it funny that the bee is right beside the word GOD lol but don't mind me I'm probably crazy hahaha)
It's the little things...be watchful for them. Most people would swat the bee. I could have been careful and put in my mind that the bee would sting me because naturally it could, but when it's the presence of God, you just know.
It's really legit crazy and amazing how God works in your life. He is so clever!
If you need help in your prayer life, or scripture, or just have questions, I will do my best to answer anything!
The devil HATES PRAYER!
AND WHATEVER THE DEVIL HATES IS TRUE POWER.