Divine Redirection-When God Changes Your Path🤍🦋

Sometimes God will flip the entire script of your life.

The plans change.

The doors close.

The path looks nothing like what you prayed for. And in those moments it can feel like loss… like starting over… like you misunderstood God.

But divine redirection is never random. God will shift paths, close doors, and move pieces not to punish you, but to position you.

Trust the Author of your story.

The version He is writing will always be greater than the one you imagined.

✨ Your story isn’t over.

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Transcript

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Good morning, good morning, good morning. This is the day that the Lord hath made we will rejoice and be glad in it. I want to welcome you to the Beautiful Me Empowerment Ministry Podcast, a space where we heal and grow and learn together. Hallelujah! Happy, happy Monday, happy new week. I hope that you are rested and you are ready to take on this week, like the champions that you are. This morning, as I got off my bed, you know, I literally I sat up and I declared I put my hand on my head and I declared that I have the mind of Christ. I declare, like I put my hand on my head and I said, Let this let this mind be in me that is also in Christ. I commanded my morning, I declared in the atmosphere that I am more than a conqueror in and through Christ Jesus, and that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I asked the Lord to order my steps, and I declared in the atmosphere that his word is a lamp unto my feet and a light onto my path. And this is something that I try to practice every day. I learned this from Cindy Trim, uh, Dr. Cindy Trim. She has a beautiful book about commanding your mornings, and commanding your mornings doesn't mean that you know it's gonna be a smooth day because we know life is life in, and the Bible tells us that life is spiritual, and the devil, he is out there like a roaring lion seeking who he may devour. Nonetheless, we have authority, amen. In the name of Jesus. So as you wake up this morning, regardless of how you are feeling, command your mornings, declare life in your mornings using the word of God. Hallelujah. Father, we come before you today with hearts full of gratitude, and we thank you because you are author and finisher of our faith. You are the God who sees the end from the beginning, you are Alpha Omega, nothing in our lives surprises you, nothing catches you off guard, and nothing escapes your sovereign hand. Hallelujah, Father. This morning, we are truly grateful to you for a new day, a new week, and we are declaring, oh God, that we are going to walk into this week not alone, but with you leading us and guiding us, and we're declaring, oh God, that we are living in expectancy, and it is going to be a week of signs and wonders and miracles, mighty God, because we serve a miracle working, God. We are declaring in the atmosphere that we can and we shall do exploits because we know our God. Hallelujah. We are declaring this morning, oh God, that we are like the tree that is planted by the rivers of waters, and we shall bloom and bring forth fruit in our season, and even in off season, our leaves will not wither and perish. We declare this day that we are a well-watered garden in the name of Jesus. And this morning, God, we are declaring that you have made our feet as sure-footed as the deer, and we shall run through troops and leap over walls in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. We are blessed in our going out and in our coming in. Hallelujah. We are the head and not the tail. We are above and not beneath. We are lenders and not borrowers. Hallelujah. We are declaring and we're believing that He who has started a good work in us will see it until completion, until the day of Jesus Christ. And Lord, we want to thank you. Thank you for every season this morning, Daddy God. Every season of our lives, we thank you for the victories, we thank you for the waiting seasons, we thank you for the moments of celebration and even the moments, oh God, of redirection. Because we know that even when we do not understand the path, we can trust the one who is leading us. And so, Father, for every person listening right now who feels confused, feels disappointed, or feels like life has suddenly shifted directions. I pray, God, that your peace would rest upon them. Let them know that your plans for them, God, they are good. They are plans to prosper them. For Jeremiah 29, verse 11 says, 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 bright future. So, Father, we ask you today that you will help us to trust your plans, even when the path changes. And we give you thanks in Jesus' name. Amen and amen and amen. Today's topic is uh when God changes your path. So the title is Divine Direction when God changes your path. Hallelujah. Blessed be the name of the Most High God. He is indeed worthy of our praise. Hallelujah. I don't know about you, but sometimes life suddenly changes direction. Yesterday I sat and in my thoughts I was like, oh my god, you know, like I have to I have to pivot, and it's okay to pivot. As I sat and I reflected, you know, I shared something on TikTok and I I spoke about the fact that there are those moments, really and truly, when God just literally flipped the script. I mean, He throws out the whole manuscript that we have for our lives, He totally redirects us. It's like you feel like you're in a space where um all the plans that you had, you know, the way you wanted life to go, the direction and everything. God just overthrow the entire thing, and you know, this is what happens when we pray that prayer let your will be done, not my will, but yours be done. And so at that point, I'm less like, you know what, I surrender. I do not surrender to the process, right? So life sometimes suddenly changes direction. I don't know if you've ever been there, you know, you've been moving towards something, um, you and and you you are sure that God wanted you, that's what He wanted for you, only for the door to close. Yeah, you prayed, you prepared, you believed, but somehow the path shifted, you know. You there's this popular saying that uh it goes, you are planning and God is wiping out. However, there's another one that that's the one that I wanted to mention. Oh, you do your part and God do the rest. So for me, I'ma be honest. I was here doing my part and saying, Alright, God, this is the path that you want me on. So I'm doing my part and I'm allowing you to do the rest. And the truth is, he did the rest, he threw out my plan, him just mash up the whole manuscript, tear it up, rip it up, rip it apart, and say, Alright, let me write this story. Yeah, so path shifted totally, a total 180-degree turn. Lord of mercy, redirection is one of the hardest spiritual experiences to process because it often feels like loss, it can feel like starting over, it feels like you're losing momentum. Questioning whether you misunderstood God and wondering if you did something wrong. But today, the Holy Spirit has sent me here to remind you that redirection is not rejection, rather, it is repositioning, yeah. So, a rejection is not redirection, right? Or a redirection is not rejection, yeah, it is rather a repositioning, or we can call it a divine positioning. Sometimes God changes the route or the route, I think that's how it is pronounced, the destination. Sometimes God changes the route because the destination is bigger than the path you originally planned. My God. And Proverbs 16 verse 9 says, In their hearts, humans plan their course, but the Lord is the one who establishing establishes their steps. Yeah. So we make plans, but God orders steps, and a rejection, and I'm gonna call it a redirection, a redirection may not even feel like oh, this is God ordering my steps, but it is, it really and truly is. And if we think about the story of Joseph, Joseph had a dream. Joseph had a dream from God that he would lead and influence nations, but the path to that dream looks like nothing that he expected. Joseph was betrayed by his own brothers, he was sold into slavery, he was falsely accused and thrown into prison. Every single thing in Joseph's life looked like loss, delay, and rejection. Right now, in this moment, everything in your life may look like loss, delay, and rejection. But I want this to just resonate in your spirit this morning that it is a divine redirection because preservosition him for the palace. So what look like setbacks were actually strategic moves of God, hallelujah! And the same is true for you, the same is true for me. Sometimes God closes doors because the road we were walking could never lead us to the promise, my God, that He prepared. And this reminds me of my girlfriend, you know, she always said to me when I was, you know, planning and helping God as if God needed any help. She always said to me, she said to me, she says, Mo, the way God is going to do this thing, it is going to be like outside of the norm. I totally forgot the word that she uses, but in essence, she was saying that it's not gonna be no normal way that God is going to make this move in your life, and so when I told her about the redirection the other day, it didn't catch her by surprise because she was like, I told, but I told you this, this is not the route that God is going to take to for you to accomplish this goal, and I'm like, Okay, uh you know, sometimes you get to that place where you just have to literally just surrender to the process, just surrender to the process, because like I said, sometimes God closes doors because the road we were walking could never lead us to the promise he prepared. My god, and I'm not here to discredit your feelings because I ball, I properly ball for a couple days. I went into a state of depression, so I'm not here to discredit your feelings because redirection is hard, and if we look from a psychological perspective, redirection is difficult because our brains crave certainty and control, so we build mental maps of our lives, we imagine timelines, we expect things to unfold a certain way, but when life changes direction, our sense of stability is shaken. Because let me tell you something, I felt so out of source because yes, we uh I talk about control and I talk about releasing control, and I'm learning too. I am learning to release control because I love to have the whole map in front of me and to just know where I'm going. I don't like to not know what is around the corner. I'm telling you the truth, it is uneasy, it creates anxiety, it creates fear, but the Lord is reminding me even in this moment that baby girl, I have not given you a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind, and that's what he's reminding you of also this morning. Hallelujah! Right? So when life changes direction, our sense of stability is shaken, and that is why redirection can trigger emotions like disappointment and grief and confusion, fear, frustration. I felt all of those the other day, and I just listen. Sometimes you just have to sit with it, you know. I sat with it, I sat with it, and I allowed the disappointment and the grief and the confusion and the fear and the frustration. I allowed myself to feel and experience all of those emotions. But guess what? Me never stayed here. I got right up and I dust myself up. Yeah, I surrender, I surrender to the process. Listen, let me tell you something, man. I went to church yesterday, and the topic that the pastor preached, the topic was radical acceptance. And when I heard the pastor said radical acceptance, I was like, Alright, God, I say you love going with yourself, you're just ruffling up my edges, you know, and all of that, because that was so me. Like God was saying, listen, Mo. Alright, guess what? No, we're going to move from out of that place of disappointment and grief and confusion and fear and frustration. Yeah, we're going to move out of that place. It's time for you to move out of that place because my plans for you remain the same, they are bigger. So just just just just just let God a ting and put it all in my hands because I've prayed several times. Not my will, but yours be done. And when you pray that prayer, you are giving God permission, not that he needs it, but you're giving him you turn over everything to him. Yeah? So, in essence, he was saying, accept the thing and allow me, the author, to run this thing and to write the story the way how I know it's supposed to write, right? But like I said, I allowed myself to feel the feel, right? And all of those feelings, they are human. Remember that you're human, but we're not gonna stay there, right? Faith means trusting God even when the map changes. Yeah, I don't know if you've ever been on the road and you're driving, and for some reason where you're going is like see what is not Siri, what's Google Map or one of those apps totally reroute you, you know? And it's so beautiful. Thank you, Holy Spirit. In the moment, it's not beautiful, you know, but it reroute you, and you're like, Oh my god, uh, does this mean that I have to start over? You start going, you you get frantic now. You're like, Oh my god, I'm going to be late. Um, I'm not gonna get to the destination on time, so you have confusion coming in. There's frustration, there's fear, there's disappointment, there's anxiety, because now you're like, oh my god, I'm supposed to reach at this place at a particular time, and then you know everything and the thing just rewrote you. And what what do you have to do? You still try to focus on the destination, yeah, and you trust Google Maps that it won't carry you in the right direction this time because sometimes we try to take a shortcut, and Google Maps just re-wrote you, and so even in that moment, you allow yourself to feel to feel the confusion and the frustration and the fear. You probably all cuss off the driver who um bad drive you all of these things, but guess what? You trust Google Map and you start following its direction, so you turn around, yeah, and you trust Google Map to take you to the destination, and you focus also on the destination because there's a destination, you know. God says that my plans for you are to prosper you, so there's a future of prosperity, there's a future of hope, there's a bright future. So now you focus on this bright future because God is not a man that he should lie, and just the same way where you trust Google Map and you turn around and you start following it like hello, you follow it to the T in a man because you want to reach your destination, yeah. Faith means trusting God even when the map changes, yeah. Faith means believing that God's vision for your life is greater than the one you created, and just like how we trust Grugo Map and Siri, we need to trust in the Lord and have faith in God. We are faith in other map, have faith in God as well. We need to trust the author of our story. When God redirects your life, he is not erasing your story, he is editing it, he is removing chapters that could never produce the ending he promised. Sometimes redirection is protection from something you cannot see, preparation for something you cannot imagine, positioning for something greater than you planned. And Isaiah 55, verse 8 reminds us for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declare the Lord. God sees the whole story. We can't even if like I use this analogy the other day, it's like going around the corner, you can't see what is around the corner, and so you have to trust the Lord because He sees, He can see what is around the corner. God sees the whole story. We only see the page that we are standing on, and so the redirection, it often creates what I call a sacred pause because child, I had to rest. So, like I went into resting, I had to pause, and I had to sit with the grief and the disappointment and the fear and the frustration and the anxiety and the everything, and sometimes God calls us in a season of rest, yeah? A pause, and it it it it is that space between what God did and what God will do next, and it felt uncomfortable because that place is empty. A friend of mine asked me, What's next? What's the plan? I'm like, I don't know, I don't know. Right now, I just have to trust the author for my life, right? It is and it is that place though where God restores your strength, he reshapes your perspective, and he realigns your purpose. And you know, the Holy Spirit prepared me for this because after I finished the conference, he reminded me of the story of Elijah. Elijah had a great victory. On Mount Carmel, there was no power, there was no question that God's undeniable power showed up by fire. But after that, we see where Elijah retreated and he was like, I'm tired, like I can't do this anymore. But God never reprimanded him, rather, God fed him. And the Holy Spirit brought that up to me even before I experienced the disappointment or the redirection. And I didn't understand what he was saying. But basically, it was a couple days later that I realized that he was saying, Listen, I want to restore your strength. Yes, I know that this space feels uncomfortable, but I want to restore your strength. I'm calling you into a space of rest. I want to reshape your perspective, I want to realign your purpose for what for where I'm taking you next. You're going to need the strength. Let me pour back into you. And some person said to me, Mo, you don't know the magnitude of what took place in your community the other day. Because for me, I felt like okay, I was obedient, I did the conference, it was a powerful conference, but as always, I take no credit. It is all the glory goes to God. So for me, it was like, okay, I was obedient. I I did what God asked me to do. He got the glory. So what's next? I'm ready to move on to the next thing now. And then two days later, yeah, God said, No, this was a big deal, and I want you to rest now while I pour into you. And it feels uncomfortable because I I actually said to the Holy Spirit the other day, I said, I didn't know how hard it was to rest. Like, this is hard. This is hard. And he had me cancer therapy Tuesday, you know, just to recalibrate, to reposition the whole thing. I I I every time I get up to do a recording, because you know, I wanted to start the podcast on YouTube. Is that and God said no? Every time I did the recording, something happened. He said no, rest. You know that we don't know how to rest, but this space, this space is where faith grows deeper, it's where God pours into us. So if that is the season that you're in, you know that space in between, that space between what God did and what God will do next, just trust the process, trust the author of your story, because every dire every redirection in your life is working for your good. What God closes is not meant for your future, what God prepares for you will never miss you because your path is divinely ordered. And so, if you are in a season right now of redirection, I want you to remember that God is not confused about your life, He's not scrambling to figure out your future. The same God who opened doors before can open new ones again. The same God who carried you through previous seasons will carry you through this one radical acceptance, my God. Sometimes the road changes because God is taking you somewhere greater than you imagined. Hallelujah. I pray that that resonates in your spirit this morning. Just trust the author, Father. We surrender our plans to you, even the ones that we do not understand the path. Even when we don't understand the path, help us to trust your heart. Give us peace in seasons of redirection, give us patience in seasons of waiting, and give us faith to believe that every step we take is leading us closer to the purpose you design for our lives. We trust you, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen. Hallelujah. I want to thank you so much for listening to the Beautiful Me Empowerment Ministry Podcast. Of course, you know I'm your girl, Monique, and just remember that healing happens in layers, and your story is still being written. Just trust the author. God bless you. Hallelujah. God bless you.