Yesterday we were driving home from King’s Dominion when the song “My Hands are Lifted Up” by Jovonta Patton came on and that led to me going into a posture of reflection as I let the song minister to my heart. The next song came on and it was Smokie Norful’s “I Understand” and that made me laugh because I knew then that God wanted my attention. I listened to the song and then my mind led me to trying to recall the song that I had played at my grandfather’s funeral. I thought it was a Smokie Norful song, but the title “Already Here” kept coming to mind which is Brian Courtney Wilson. We listened to that song and I was like I still love this one but no, that’s not it so we just kept listening to songs that came on.

It’s now 11pm and I’m in bed half asleep and the thought of this song comes again, and I know there’s some revelation in this as my mind keeps searching so I grab my phone and end up determining that the song that I was looking for is “All I Need” by Brian Courtney Wilson. I play a fraction of it and then go to bed.

Now it’s quarter to 10 am this morning and I’m on the way to church and I replay “All I Need” getting in my feelings thinking about my grands but not receiving a message from the song. The next song comes on and it’s “A Great Work” and Bam, that’s it!! I had to do a little work but there was my message within the context of this song. God, I hear you & I thank you!

“Sometimes there are obstacles in the road
That can leave you feeling low
And you don’t know how to move forward
And sometimes there are turns you wanna take
But the way gets hard to trace

Now you’re wondering how did you get here
But don’t you give up
Until you see
How God is ordering your steps
So you can walk into your season

He that has begun
A great work in you
Is faithful to perform it
God is faithful to perform it
He that has begun
A great work in you
Is faithful to perform it
Oh God is faithful

I declare
You will know the favor of the Lord
And receive a Hollis for your seed

And in due time
God will blow your mind
With what He planted inside of you
To bless the world as bloom”

That’s how the song starts and I just lifted my hands like Jovonta says in his song that led to this discovery!

I have been feeling defeated in searching for a job and what my next steps should be. I have been prayerful and weary alike and it’s taxing but at the end of the day God is always here to remind me that I am not alone! Great is His faithfulness!

“So what should be considered (great work)
As we proceed (God is doing a great work)
Is that this work (great work)
Did not begin with you (God is doing a great work)
Our mothers’ mothers (great work)
And fathers’ fathers (God is doing a great work)
Planted seeds (great work)
When we were but the faint notion of a dream (great work)
In their mind (God is doing a great work)
They hope for a harvest a legacy, a great work
(God is doing a great work)
So make your next step forward (great work)
Help us to connect the dots and see (God is doing a great work)
This picture of greatness (great work)
In fact I hinder and say (God is doing a great work)
That you are his workmanship (great work)
His masterpiece (God is doing a great work)
Created for such a time as this (great work)
For great works (God is doing a great work)
A great, great, great work (great work)
So go be great (God is doing a great work)
Don’t get discouraged (great work)
Go be great (God is doing a great work)
Don’t you get weary (great work)
Go be great (God is doing a great work)”

Only my God could know to send me these words, only He knows what’s in my heart & troubling my spirit and He gave me these words to encourage me and perhaps you too for whatever may be weighing on you tonight! Let us all wake up tomorrow and all the days ahead and choose to Be Great in all that we do!