God Nudge

This may sound weird but stay with me and I’ll explain – hopefully - in a way you can fully understand what I’m saying.

A God nudge – my definition is that little voice in your head that’s telling you something. It could also be called a gut feeling. Your subconscious. A feeling. However, you term it we’ve all felt it. I call them God Nudges. As I matured in my faith I felt more and more strongly about these nudges and what they were. Most importantly, where they came from.

So one of the biggest ones was about a friend. I had only met her once or twice at this point and to be honest she wasn’t someone on my radar. The second meeting she actually was reintroduced to me by another hometeam leader who was a male. The reason he introduced us is because his hometeam did not have a female leader and at this time I was sort of over the hometeams and the whole gist of male and females in hometeam is that guys talk to and minister to guys and ladies talk to and minister to ladies. When I say talk to I mean confide in and ask advice of.  All of the members were single parents so there was a good chance that person would need someone to talk to or get advice from. We just wanted to be sure they were loved on by someone.

So he introduces me and we visit a minute, her youngest child was still at home with her, the older two lived with Dad. Youngest child is elementary age, so young. Fast forward to that following Friday, the leader invited me to his hometeam meeting and I went. This was the new Mom’s first time to come. I could tell she was nervous. Her daughter sat with her for a good bit to start. At the end of the meeting she was sitting beside my leg on the floor and whispered to me – You are really gifted, you should be a hometeam leader. I giggled and divulged that I am one. Now mind you my own hometeam was meeting the following Friday, that’s important because for the next two weeks God was trying to get my attention about this lady.

Hebrews 10:36  NIV   36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

Now there were rules for Hometeam but inviting someone from another hometeam to yours was not against the rules but it appeared as stealing. It was frowned on. In the two weeks after this hometeam we were at God kept telling me, Invite her, ask her to come to YOUR hometeam. I was not trying to ignore God or be disobedient at all but I did not want to be a hometeam thief so even though I was hearing God, I was getting this nudge to invite her I was not doing it readily. Finally after God just was relentless and telling me telling me and TELLING ME… I finally sat down and wrote an email. I started by telling her I’m sorry, I know already this will be long. If you will be patient with me I’ll explain. I explained about stealing from other Hometeams. I explained that since that meeting God really had put it on my heart HARD to invite her. I tried to really emphasis how much God was pushing me to invite her. I wanted her to understand that it wasn’t about not minding God but I was caught in a hard spot.

I did invite her, I told her at this point I needed to be obedient to what God wanted me to do. That He knows my situation and hers better than me. I also explained that I had a large gut feeling that God wanted us to connect for more than just meetings. I felt like she was going to be someone important in my life.

She ended up coming to my hometeam, the one she joined ended up shutting down a month after her first meeting so she had another one to go to in the form of mine. Had I not invited her she would not have known another leader or meeting and might have not gone to another meeting. God thing! Daughter was elementary age then. Now she is out of school, married and left home. I am still friends with the lady, matter of fact we are very close friends.

Over the years we’ve stood side by side at Church, at conferences, at music events, so many times something said or a verse would pop up and we’d look at each other because it just kept occurring when we were together. One of those is Hebrews 10:36.

Hebrews 10:36  NIV   36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

What a wonderful scripture, it tells so much about how we needed to live and both of us recognized that.  What a gift that God pushed me to reach out to her, I would not have my friend if I had not. God knew what He was doing. He always knows what He is doing when He puts someone in your life or my life. I’ve learned not to deny what God is saying. The next instance when I was told “invite her” I ended up doing it right away. All these years later, she is also a close friend. It just works.

Lord, I thank You for the divine appointments in my life. I thank You that You kept after me to do what You knew I needed to do. I am grateful for putting these ladies and others in my life. I am so blessed by these friendships. I have some really amazing friends… All I know You were very purposeful in putting them in my path. You knew I needed them and I’m so grateful. Lord, I ask you to be with my friends, protect them, guide them, provide peace and joy in each life. I ask all in Jesus Name - AMEN