God Wants To Minister to Your Heart As His Daughter Too

Listen to the recap of 7 ways God ministered to Chelsey's heart during a recent time of feeling a little downtrodden and be encouraged too! 

God is SO good! 

Transcript

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Welcome back to the High Level Wife Podcast. I'm Chelsea Holm, your hostess, and we do Marriage God's way here. I'm going to share with you how God has recently been ministering to my heart and just showing up in such specific and immediate ways of rescue and care and tenderness towards me through a challenge that I faced this last week. Um, and the first one was when I was really feeling bombarded and looking back now, I think that this was absolutely a spiritual attack from the enemy of all of these thoughts coming into my head that were just not, they were not building our marriage. They were not um, they were not profitable for anything. And I was struggling to sleep fall asleep, and I said, Holy Spirit, drop an atom bomb in my thoughts right now in Jesus' name. And he did. And it was like immediately all those thoughts were blown up, and I felt peace and I was able to go right to sleep. That should have been my indicator that this was an attack. But it, I don't know. It didn't, you know, it's like retrospect is 2020. Um, and looking back, it's easier to connect the dots than when you're right in that situation. So that was the first one. The second one was I had a really challenging conversation, and um, I didn't know what to do with that, but I knew that humility and love was at the forefront. But I was still feeling really downhearted and feeling um just pretty bummed at the whole thing uh that it even took place, and and and just in this, like meh of like Lord, I want to honor you in this. I want clarity from you and wisdom and discernment in where do we go from here kind of thing. Um, I'm walking through Costco and I just I was like, Lord, and I just I said this in my mind. And and these are those moments where you know it's from the Lord because the enemy doesn't know your thoughts, he doesn't know what you're thinking. Now he studies you, he knows you, right? He's got he's got his little minions studying you for the most part. If you're following God and you're stepping out, the enemy knows your name. Okay, the demons know your name. Um, but they have no power and authority over us unless we give it to them. Anyway, so there was no way that this was any anything. Like I hadn't put it out there. I was simply in my head, I was like, Lord, can you just minister to my heart right now? And immediately my husband called me and he was like, Hey, I was thinking about your text this morning about just asking for prayer, and he's like, What's going on? Like, I know we haven't had time to talk because he's been super busy at this conference. Um, and it just immediately I was like, Lord, thank you. Like, my husband speaks so much wisdom to me. Like, he is he is such a steady, steady man, and he is so rooted in the word of God. And he, you know, his spiritual gifts, um, they just like our spiritual gifts together, they just God ordained they go together. Um, and he he was I was able to share with him, you know, the conversation that uh happened and um kind of like where I was and where my heart was and all of this. And he was able to speak wisdom to me and encourage me and um just lift my spirits and like lift my drooping arms um in that moment. And it wasn't a long conversation, but gosh, it was just oh like just what I needed. That's what my soul needed. And um, like God ministered so quickly. And then, and this is crazy, and like this is where we can't lean on our understanding because we can't orchestrate things the way that the Lord does. Like, it blows my mind when I think about it of how all people of all times, of all timelines, who were before, who are now, who have yet to come, like God is weaving these all together down to the second. Like it just, it just amazes me. And I can't, I can't conceptualize how he does it. And that's where I know I can trust his plans are good for me. And because I can't, there's no way that I could do what he does. Not even close. Like it's laughable that we have this illusion of control at all. Because when you really think about it and you really understand God's character and his sovereignty, we don't even come close. We know we don't. Um, and so Friday night I picked up my dad and my stepmom from the airport at Midway. So that was like an hour and a half with traffic, and then drove them to Indiana, um, which was two and a half hours, and then I drove, I had to drive two and a half hours back, and then I the next day I had to take Gabe and Holly to track. And so, like literally this weekend, I think in 24 hours I spent 12 and a half hours driving, but I would do it again because God totally lined this up in a way perfectly for me to encourage them and lift their spirits in the challenging time they're walking through, and for them to speak firsthand wisdom and experience into my life, um, specifically in the capacity of ministry and leadership and um all of these challenging things that I know they've walked through and they've walked through with the Lord in the spirit, rooted and grounded in the love of Christ. And I was just so thankful that you know, we had that two and a half hours to be able to talk, probably a little bit longer because we we did stop for dinner, but um just just like honey to my soul, just so sweet, so refreshing, truly refreshment for my bones and um an insight into things that I was not able to recognize just out of lack of experience um through that whole trying situation. Uh, and so, and so there was that. That was his thing. Like God ministered to me through that, through perfect orchestration, as only he could do in his perfect sovereignty. And then on Sunday, um, I a friend of mine, a dear friend of mine, who is so wise, who is so godly, such a godly woman, um, and has so much mercy and empathy, where I uh show it very differently. She she had invited me over for lunch, me and the kids, um, as a way to honestly just bless our hearts in a time when, you know, Zach is gone and it is a little bit more challenging where I've shared where, you know, being both mom and dad for a period of time um and still functioning in the authority as a wife and still functioning under the headship of my husband, even though he's not physically in the house, right? Like it's a very, it's a very different dynamic. Um, and it's not, I wouldn't say I love it at all, right? Like I I I long for the day when my husband gets to retire from the military and we don't have to function in this capacity anymore. But God, He is so good and He sustains us and He gives us everything we need, and we get to stand in His might, praise the Lord, not my own. Um, but Sunday I got yesterday we got to go to their house. They fed us this amazing meal of tacos, like legit tacos, so good. Um, and so yes, it fed our bellies, and you know, I love food. Uh, but then the conversation afterwards and just being in a family that loves Jesus and just doesn't get wrapped up in all the things of this world, like just honest people. Um, and it was such a blessing, it was such a refreshment for my soul, truly. I keep saying that, but it was uh like it reminds me of the passages of honey that is like sweet, like a friend, right, to the soul. And uh, and that's exactly what it was. And she was able because she has functioned. Um, uh well, she she was a missionary, is a missionary, but they're they're home now for a time being. And so she's had lots of experience walking through Christian ministry and leadership and specifically like real relationship dynamics um inside you know, institutions or bodies, if you will, and just her insight through that and how to navigate those things, honestly, in like a very practical spiritual discipleship. Um what's the word I'm looking for? Context, context, right? Uh, and so she was just she just poured so much wisdom into me and challenged me on some things, and that's where she brought up the empathy, right? Like asking the Holy Spirit to teach me how I show intimacy, how the Father has knit that in me, and also how that needs to continue to be developed in me. Um, and specifically, like how to develop other leaders, right? How to lead an organization, how to um how to function as the head of a team, right? And and like so that was that. And then also like I'm just gonna keep going. Like this is this is just the episode where like this is how God's been ministering to me and teaching me and encouraging me and challenging me. Um, and you know, just all of these things. Like, I I feel like just in the last less than a week, like I it's like I was drinking milk in so many areas, and the Lord is like spoon feeding me um steak. And I'm like over here chomping, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, keep coming, keep coming, you know, like let's go. Um and I was asking uh just last week, I I had a call with Tommy, and we were talking about um the advances of and in the streamlining of high-level husband and getting some of the last things, the wheels on that going, and then bringing how we were going to bring that over to high-level wife to expand it, to deepen it, to um to really bring it to the same point as high-level husband. And and then, you know, at the end of the call, he he said, he asked me to pray for direction and clarity on how we're going to carry this forward, right? How the Lord is asking me to carry this out. And um, because I know He is, He has promised me this and much more. So I know it's coming, and you know, but there are things that like there are direction and um like infrastructure and just behind the scenes of of running, you know, uh from smaller scale to large scale capacity and and what that looks like, and just answering the questions of is it going to be a team and this kind of business model, or is it going to be this kind of business model and just bigger? Right. And so I asked the Lord for confirmation, and then he's bringing me through numbers and he's he's teaching me like like this is what he did. Like he had the Levites that they each had their own thing and they each had their own um um ministry, like the way that they were serving, right? The tabernacle, the way that they were serving the people, and they each had their thing that they were carrying out. And then also as leadership, each person what had their list of the tasks and the responsibilities that they were over, right? And and it all started with like the command, the instruction, the vision, if you will, if we're talking in a business world, right? Of of where we're going with this, why, and and all and all of these different parts. And I just felt like, gosh, Lord, God, God Almighty, you just gave me so much clarity in that. And that was another way he ministered to my heart and answered my question. Um, this is where I challenge you in your walk. If you're not used to asking God questions and hearing him respond to you through his word or through other wise um counsel around you, start. But you actually have to slow down to listen. That's the thing, right? Most of the time we don't slow down enough to listen, or we don't know where to go, and instead we go to Google, instead, we go to unwise um counsel, right? Uh, or we just leave it on our own understanding. So then the last way, oh no, I actually there's two more ways that God ministered to my heart this week uh slash weekend. Um, the other big one was we were driving to Wisconsin and we were listening to WBGL, which is the Christian radio station, that thankfully we can listen to online, so we can listen to like nationwide as long as we have internet access. And so we just were jamming out, singing our songs, and I don't even know if it was something they said on the talk portion of the station or if it was a song I was listening to, but I just felt in my spirit that uh because I was thinking about David and Goliath, and last week or the week before at church, um, Pastor Errol had brought up the story of David and Goliath, and then I had been seeing this through um through through different people that I follow, uh, through different mentors, so online mentors that I do follow and I do trust. And I've always had this with the story of David and Goliath, like God knit me very much, like David, that I would be the one that came into the Israelite camp and heard Goliath and said, Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he dare defy the armies of the living God? That would be me. That is that fire that God has put in me, and why so much of what I do makes sense. Um and this is where the Holy Spirit really clarified this for me that I am not warring against flesh and blood when I am teaching God's design for marriage. I am going toe-to-toe with the spirit of Jezebel and the spirit of Ahab. And that's bigger than me, and that's my Goliath. And I'm like, Lord, teach me how to pick my stones. Give me the courage to run forward. Man, I didn't realize I'd be so emotional, but I told you this story like runs deep for me. Like, this story is like to my core. It's always rocked me, and I've always related so much to it. Like, this is that fiery little girl within. Like, this is who God made me to be before all the years of putting stuff on myself that he never asked me to carry. Like, this is who he knit me to be. This fiery little girl, okay? And so I'm like, God, teach me the stones to carry in your name and to face that giant with courage to stand in your might and to not veer to the left or to the right, to not allow people to beat me down, but to double down. And may I do it to the praise of your glory. And he gave me so much clarity in that moment in that connection with David and Glenn. And that's not all. I feel like I'm on a game show. But this is the this is the character of God. This is his heart for his children. And um I told you my my dad and my and my aunt. I can call her my Angie. She's my stepmom, but I can call her Angie. I've always called her Angie. Um they were they were going through uh uh try and time, and this is so cool. I when I dropped them off, I was like, Well, I guess, you know, sometime in our conversation, I said, What are your plans for um or how long is it gonna take you to drive home? And they said, Oh, well, we're stopping at a hotel in Toma. Well, excuse me, Zach's in Toma, Toma, Wisconsin, and they're like, Yes. And I said, Well, what's the hotel? And they told me, and I was like, I think that's the hotel that Zach's at. You've got to be kidding me. So I I texted Zach and I said, Hey, I think Dad and Andrew are coming to the same hotel that you're in. Um, I know it's gonna be a super late night when they get there, and I think they have to leave early and you're early for this, you know, you have to get up early and be gone for this conference every day. I was like, but you guys should totally meet up and whatever. Um, and it was just like seeing God minister to their hearts and using my husband, who is the most generous, who I told you, he he encouraged me so much, and I know he did the same for him for them. Um, and just seeing how God orchestrated this, like of all the hotels to stay in, the fact that they even got a room because there are a lot of soldiers in town right now, um, in that town, um, and just seeing God's hand, like just in everything, like seeing his fingerprint on everything. Um, and God is so good. We follow a good, good father, and he loves to delight in his children, and he is the one and only one that has the control and the authority and the sovereignty and the supremacy to be able to orchestrate all of this stuff. And these are all like personal individual things, and yet he cares about them, and he fits us into his overall plan. He doesn't have to do that, and yet he does. He is so good. So good. So I hope this encourages your heart today. I hope that this challenges you to cry out to the Lord and ask him to minister to your heart and intentionally look for his fingerprints and his hand in everything, and give him the praise and the honor and the glory for his goodness. I will see you on the next episode.