Your Weapon is your Walk

We’ve been talking about the margins, and the waiting game many of us are facing: the hardships, the disappointments, and the downright chaos that life has been tossing.

I think God is saying Girls, it’s time to Pick up your Skirt and Walk. Remember that story? that time when Jesus when up to the guy that was laying disabled for years by the Healing Pool. Jesus learned he had been in that condition for years. He even asks him, “Do you want to get well?” And the guy goes on to explain all the reasons he can’t “I have no one to help me get into the people. When I am trying, someone else goes down in front of me.” Does this self-talk sound familiar? I was tripping this morning reading this and hearing myself. How much I blame other people’s success or being prioritized for why I’m not walking in the fullness of what I’ve hoped for. But how crazy Jesus in this story literally doesn’t even really respond to what he says, he just says, Pick up your mat and walk. And Catch this, the guy just does it “And once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.” (Jn 5:6-9)

There’s something about when you get a real word from God, that’s tailor made for you, that releases the power to do it. T here’s something about hearing a word that makes it real.

I think God is saying to us as women, who are discouraged, who are feeling defeated right now. He’s saying girls, it’s time to pick up your skirt and walk.

There are all these reasons Why not, why you feel disqualified, why you feel like “It’s always going to be this way.”

But Today, Holy Spirit wants to activate you, to start Walking. To start stepping, to start going towards the things that bring you life. He wants to outdo your expectations but its starts with you.

Your Victory is in your walk.

It’s out of this margin that you’ll get your greatest weapon. Your weapon is your walk.

I dare you try it. Walk like you got it going on. If you feel pathetic or lousy, or low self-worth—Maybe you came out of a break uMaybe it’s been a long time since you’ve been on a date. Maybe you are feeling unfulfilled in a job. But girls and guys, Do something to make you feel gorgeous, to make you feel like a stud.

Get to your happy place. Do a simple act today that makes you feel in love. Put an outfit on that makes you feel like a stud. It’s crazy how these small acts that nurture us can elevate our whole day.

And watch what happens, as you start walking with your vibe, with your triumphant attitude back, watch how your perspective changes.. Watch while the things that were bumming you out start to dissipate. Watch as the negative thoughts that were creeping in start to become irrelevant. Watch as the conflict that kept you on edge somehow doesn’t bother you as much. Because when you give yourself permission to do you, when you start to get that kickass spirit back, it releases the power of who you are. God wants you in your glory. This is how you come into your Victory. This is how we stir up faith.

Because it’s movement that starts to attract favor, and our attitude changing: our own thoughts start to believe again.
So this is my assignment for the week. Pick up your skirt and Walk. Walk toward what brings you life, Walk like your breakthrough is on it’s way. Walk like your daring God and daring that promise.

And watch the shifts that start to happen.