All Things Skin, Wellness & Faith
All Things Skin, Wellness & Faith
BREADCRUMBS OF FAITH DEVOTIONAL 25: Steering Away From The Quick Fix
Can impatience lead us away from God's plan? On This weeks Breadcrumb Devotinal, I recount a personal moment of struggle with waiting on divine timing and the valuable lesson it taught me about faith and trust. By sharing this experience, I aim to provide you with encouragement to rely on God's perfect timing, even when it feels like He's taking too long. Together, we reflect on scripture and the patience it requires, drawing strength from the Holy Spirit's reminders that God's plans are always worth the wait.
Additionally, I'm excited to introduce you to the Sight and Sound app, a remarkable platform that brings biblical stories to life through live cinematic plays. From Moses parting the Red Sea to the inspiring tales of Ruth and Joseph, these performances offer accurate and engaging portrayals of scripture that can enrich your faith journey. Whether you're familiar with these stories or experiencing them anew, this app provides a fresh and captivating way to explore God's word with your family. Join me as we explore how these timeless narratives can provide fresh perspectives on faith and patience.
Sight & Sound
https://www.sight-sound.com/
hey, there you're tuned into another episode of all things skin wellness and faith, a podcast where you'll learn simple ways to implement skin care and wellness techniques from a holistic approach. On this podcast, we'll explore practical ways to address skin health and overall holistic spiritual well-being, while deepening your faith. I'm your host, natasha Diaz, a licensed holistic esthetician, day spa owner and a faithful believer and follower of Christ, and it's time to get ready to get encouraged and empowered as we dive into all things skin wellness and faith. Hello, and welcome back to this week's episode of Bright Crumbs of Faith by All Things Skin Wellness and Faith, our weekly encouragement, where we just dive into a little bit of scripture and give you a little bit encouragement to get you through the week. So this week I want to bring you guys a little bit of encouragement, as it was brought unto me by the Holy Spirit, lord, our Father himself.
Speaker 1:Just a little reminder was given to me this week as I was coming through some decisions that I had to make, and it was a little bit of a strenuous decision and I'm not going to lie, I'm human, just like you guys, flush just like you guys, and the enemy was trying to basically present to me old things, old ways, ways that I could kind of go in and be myself and be Mrs Fix-It per se and take care of situations on my own in my way, rather than waiting on the Lord. And needless to say that what I was thinking of, I had already known that the Lord had just told me to just stay away from this and to kind of wait on him, and that he would supply an answer in this situation. But of course, you know, being ourselves, we get tired of waiting sometimes and we get presented with all these thoughts of how we can fix things on our own, how we can go and just, you know, kind of clean up shop and make a way and just kind of, you know, think to the Lord that you're taking a little bit long and are you actually going to come through? And we know he's going to come through, but we just don't know his timing. And the Bible says that his timing is perfect. And I'm falling back to that scripture again that I spoke on last week, because this is what the Holy Spirit is speaking to me, though it tarries wait for it.
Speaker 1:So the Lord was just reminding me as I rented a play on this website that's called Sight and Sound. I don't know if you guys are aware of. It's not a website, it's actually an app in. Sight and Sound, I guess, is a place in Pennsylvania where they host biblical plays like live plays. It's really awesome. I actually want to take my family there one day. But if you are not able to take a ride to Pennsylvania depending on where you are in a country or even in the world, since this podcast is worldly but if you're not able to get there yourself, there is an app that you can download off subject called Sight and Sound, and you can either subscribe for a yearly subscription which I believe is $80 or $89, or you can rent each play individually.
Speaker 1:So this is an awesome way, a cinematic way, that it's not really like a movie, because I love my Christian movies and, like I said, I'm going to get back to my point, but just wanted to tell you where this all comes from. So this is an awesome way, like I said, for you to take in some scripture, take it in a different way. It's all biblically based, it's doctrine is absolutely. It's very accurate and it's very cinematic. It's not a movie, it's a play. So it's something that you know the whole family can enjoy. They're about a couple hours each. There's one on Joseph, there's one on Ruth, david, esther, all the main characters, all the main stories in the Bible. So, anyways, I was watching which one was it? I think it was Moses and I think, you know, if we're all in the Bible, a lot of us we know the story of Moses, but it's always good, you know, to brush up on it, to look at it at a different way.
Speaker 1:And one part of the play that captivated me is when Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt and they were about to go, and I think they just they were about to go walk through the Red Sea. I believe it was. I think they were about to go through it and they were waiting for the Lord to part the Red Sea for them. And the children of Israel became weak in their faith as Pharaoh and his army came along and they were gaining on them. And the children of Israel were just like you know we should have, you know we should just turn back. They're gaining on us there, you know there's so many of them, his army is doubled.
Speaker 1:And that part just captivated me really quickly, really, it just really spoke to me because it's like Moses had said to him like you guys have to have faith, like we've come this far, the Lord is not going to forsake us. We just have to trust in the Lord. He will make a way for us. And they just could not see the way, like they were just so caught up in, you know, the pressures of, you know the enemy, pharaoh, you know coming on them, and they became frantic and I just thought like, wow, this is exactly how we get sometimes, like the pressure is coming on us, the time is coming, whatever it is. You know, we're waiting on the Lord and we're just, we're not seeing anything. We're just getting under a whole lot of pressure and we're like we have to do something. We just have to do something in our own might, like God is taking too long. We know that he's supposed to come through, but we don't really see it. So we start to fret. And so Moses was just like, basically, you have to have faith.
Speaker 1:And in that midnight hour, which is how the Lord always comes through for us, the Red Sea parted and a way was made. And it's a story, like I said, that we all know. But just to get that gentle reminder for me at a perfect timing, where it's a season that I had just gone through. It was just like, basically like wow, you know it was a gentle, yet, you know, timely reminder that the Lord will always come through, though it tarries. Once again, wait for it In that bit of a time where you're just under pressure and you're like, what are you going to do, god? You're not going to do anything. We're under so much stress. And then he says daughter, son, I'm the God who parted the Red Sea. Like literally, I hear that all the time, and now to see it too is just a reminder. And it was just such a confirmation to me because, as I'm waking up this morning and I'm discussing with my husband, I'm telling him how that was just such a repeated aha moment.
Speaker 1:I usually, when I get up in the morning, before I go downstairs for my prayer time, the first thing I do is not open up Facebook, not open up Instagram, although that's what I used to do. Now I open up my Bible app and I see what the scripture is for the day. So the scripture of the day was not this scripture, but I did. After looking at the scripture of the day I did go to Facebook and when I went to Facebook, after looking at the scripture, the scripture of the day was actually not the scripture of the day, a scripture that one of my groups that I follow on Facebook actually had the scripture in Exodus that was referenced in the sight and sound play that I saw and that was Exodus 15 and 2. So I decided that that would be really great to reflect on for you guys today. So I'm going to read that off to you. It's Exodus 15 and 2 in the NLT, and actually it's Exodus 15, 2, and I'm going to read 3 in the NLT.
Speaker 1:And it is the Lord is my strength in my song. He has given me victory. This is my God and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him. The Lord is a warrior, yahweh is his name. Pharaoh's chariots and army he has hurled into the sea. Chariots and army he has hurled into the sea. The finest of Pharaoh's officers are drowned in the Red Sea. So that was just so powerful for me because it was just like total confirmation from the Holy Spirit just saying like, look, you don't have to worry. Look, I am God. I am the God who's part of the Red Sea. So really it's like God has already given us the victory. This is just to encourage you to be strong Once again.
Speaker 1:Going back again, these scriptures are probably redundant and repeated on a regular basis over the past few episodes, but I know that there is somebody out there that is listening to us that just needs, just as I do, from the Lord, the constant repetition of telling you that the Lord is there, he is for you, he is not going to leave or forsake you, to just hold on, just hold on and continue to pray. And I can say, even in a moment like I don't know what's going on in your life, but even we have these moments. And I just had a moment, even last evening, where I was just, you know, in my bed. I was kind of, you know, doing my prayer, because I do try to pray, you know, multiple times throughout the day, randomly, just not planned, just as the Holy Spirit prompts, and I was just feeling like spiritually, like under the weather. I was just feeling like there was a lot going on in my spirit that was not of the Lord. I was feeling a little bit anxious. I really didn't have a particular reason, I was just feeling like some things were trying to come on me that were not of the Lord, and I just had to sit there for a moment and I just had to pray, and I just had to spend some time with the Holy Spirit in prayer and immediately after, you know, feeling this little bit of anxiousness, I felt it lift off of me, and so that is what I want to encourage you to do, because this is what the Father wants us to do. He wants us to run to Him. In those moments, don't entertain it. Don't entertain whatever the enemy is trying to place on you.
Speaker 1:The Bible tells us repeatedly to take our thoughts captive, and this is a prime example of what that means. When these thoughts are being placed in your mind, when you are getting constantly reminded and bombarded of situations or bills, or you know sicknesses or just regular, you know situations in life that you know are getting you down, you have to, in that moment, drop to your knees and pray. Even if you don't drop to your knees, go to a bathroom, go to a stall, sit in your car, whatever it is, but you have to have that intimate, secret place moment with the Lord and Holy Spirit, our father. He is so faithful, he will come and he will battle for you in that moment. This is what the scripture is saying the Lord is my strength, the Lord is my song.
Speaker 1:But again, like I said on my previous episode, if we don't utilize what we have, which is prayer the Bible says prayer is our weapon then how are we going to be mighty and victorious if we're not using our sword of the spirit? Prayer is our sword of the spirit. So we have to pick up our sword and we have to fight. And the way we fight as Christians, the way we fight as believers, is with prayer. Believe me, trust me.
Speaker 1:For those of you that are not deep, deep in your faith early on, baby Christians, it's fine. You may not get it, but I encourage you to try this. I encourage you to just sit in that moment and just say Lord this is why I spoke about in the last video, to have last video I'm sorry last episode to have those scriptures readily available in your phone that you can just open up, that, even if you don't know exactly where to go to, you can say Lord, your word says that you are my strength. In my song, your word says, lord, that you have given me victory, that you are my God. So, father, god, I need that strength right now. I'm leaning on you, I'm trusting on you, I'm relying on you, lord, I'm not leaning on my own understanding. Cry out to him, abba. He is there. Daddy, father, he is there for us.
Speaker 1:So I'm just going to wrap it up right there for you, guys. I encourage you to just be pouring out to the Father, reaching out, asking the Holy Spirit throughout the day to just encourage you and strengthen you, not just in the morning, not just at night, but at those various times during the day, during your lunch break, during afternoon, traffic, on the way home, whatever it is, whatever anxiety pops up. That's where you need to take out your sword of the spirit and strike it down in the spiritual realm. All right, guys, this is a break from, so we're going to keep it short and wrap it up for there. I will see you next week for next week's break from, and at the end of the week with another full episode. All right, love you so much. Remember, be blessed and be a blessing. Thank you.