CLOSED

Do you feel like you are in a closed-door season? 

For every season, God has a purpose for us. During mine, closed doors made missions efforts possible. Closed doors allowed me to travel to Africa, Venezuela, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. My bucket list included getting one stamp in a passport. I had to recently ask for additional pages in a renewed passport.

Closed doors helped me grow by experiencing different cultures, different outlooks, different living situations, and developing a very honest relationship with Jesus. God showed me that His plan was better than mine, and I smile (even laugh out loud sometimes) when He does things just to show His is God and can do anything far beyond what I can think, dream or imagine.

Does your 'closed door' season of life allow time to pursue a dream? join a Bible study? serve at a school? mentor a young person? pursue a dream? take a class to help you develop professionally? Enjoy this season of change. Not all change is bad. You may need extra pages in your 'memory book' all because of what happens when God closes a door that isn't 'good' for you.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” – Jeremiah 29:11