I’m still sitting with Sam to hear the specifics of what that’s going to look like but the one piece I do know is it’s going to continue to involve audio, probably weekly rather than daily, at least while we get things established.

(You don’t need to do anything in order to enjoy whatever comes “next”, it’ll be shared here via the blog and direct to your inbox like you’ve been enjoying thus far.)

Thank you so much for journeying with me over these days, weeks, months and years. I’m full of anticipation for what’s next!

With all of that said, here’s today’s love note …

Your legacy isn’t about projects, it’s about people. Legacy is always about people because people are my priority, relationship is what I’m really focussed on. And so your legacy is every person you’ve impacted in both seen and unseen ways.

Yes, there will be specifics to how the peopling will play out but don’t worry about the specifics. I can show the specifics very easily when we keep doing life together like this. When I know that I have your heart and ear, there is nothing to stop me whispering specifics.

But specifics are always centred around people, relationships, and so that is ultimately your legacy: doing life with me, all in, loving and living with joy, being who I created you to be unapologetically, and loving others into a closer relationship with me in the process. Being who I created you to be, in relationship with me - Youier! That is your legacy!

“The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.” Psalm 28:7 NIV

Journal prompt: Are there any specifics you want to share with me today?

There’s a way through. There’s always a way through - or over or under or round! There is a path already prepared for you and no matter how overgrown it looks to you, trust the process. Trust that you are never traveling alone. Trust that I am with you always.

Sometimes you’ll feel like you’re skipping along very happily, enjoying every moment of the journey, until something catches you off guard and suddenly you feel like you’re falling. Nothing ever catches me off guard and whilst yes, I will sometimes allow you to fall, I’m right there with you. Where would I go? How could I go? You in me and me in you. Where you go, I go, always.

So whether you’re dancing along happily or feeling your way forward, one tenuous step at a time, I am with you and I have prepared a way forward for you. Everything on your heart has a solution and you are a part of the solution!

“You’ve gone into my future to prepare the way, and in kindness you follow behind me to spare me from the harm of my past.” Psalm 139:5 TPT

Journal prompt: What are you inviting me to know about our journey?

Awareness is half the battle in this journey you’re on with me. There are things I’m shining light onto today that have been an issue for a long time. I hadn’t yet shown you those things from my perspective and, as a result, there was a grace on them.

Yes, I’m talking about those things you label as “mistakes” and “mis-steps”. All things, every thing is an invitation into deeper relationship. Nothing is worthless or wasted. I have been getting you ready for this moment your whole life!

You don’t need to be afraid of anything I’m inviting you into. Yes, there’s an opportunity to tweak and adjust some things in your life but this is about moving you towards my best for you. I’m not trying to catch you out or make you miserable!

What do you really want from your life? How do you want to move through the world? What kind of an impact would you like to make?

Every adjustment is about moving you closer to the person I created you to be. This is all about growth and maturity. I’m doing this with you and for you - not to you! You have a choice, you always have a choice. Who do you want to be?

“Now you’re dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it.” Colossians 3:10 MSG

Journal prompt: What do you really want from your life? Who do you want to be?

You’re wonderful and brilliant, I’ve given you so many gifts and talents and you cannot do everything today. This is not an invitation to idleness, this is a call to rest. Rest can be active and energising. It fuels you and helps bring clarity to everything you’re working on and towards.

It’s great to have those longer-term goals and plans that we’re exploring together. Without vision, you will wither. And, let me help you action those plans in a way that will life-giving for you and the people you care about.

I repeat … this is not about powering through and checking everything off in one day. Let me be your pacer. I know the very best way to move forward into everything I’ve put on your heart. Everything needs to be anchored in our time together. Without that nourishment, you will lose sight of why any of this is important.

Without nourishment you will grow weary and lose heart. You’ll find yourself trying to carry burdens that were never yours to carry! Do all of this with me. That’s vital! You are where you are today because of every whisper and you hear the whispers in the quiet place. Keep seeking my heart. I am your lifeblood.

“I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out - plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.” Jeremiah 29:11 MSG

Journal prompt: Are there any goals that I’ve been trying to action on my own?

When I tell you not to be worried about anything, what do you think I mean? Is it possible that there are exceptions or caveats to that invitation? Maybe there are situations you face in your current modern age that were not an issue two thousand years ago and so they’re not covered? What nonsense!

Everything that concerns you is ultimately about people and I know people, I made people. Every person is made in my image and every hair on every head is accounted for. Do not be worried about any person in your life.

Instead, give them to me. Let me help you love and nurture them in the most appropriate way. And remember that these people you love are loved infinitely more so by me! You think you can love but you’ve not seen anything yet!

Let me pour my love into your loved ones. Trust that you really do not need to worry and instead, love each and every person, me-helping you. I am love and I know exactly what I’m doing.

“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6+7 NLT

Journal prompt: What worries have I been hanging onto?

We’ve explored this before but it’s important for you to remember that you can always hear me. Those little nudges that lead to incredible conversations are from me. It really doesn’t need to feel complicated or confusing to hear me!

And no, you don’t need to announce, ‘thus said the Lord’ every time you follow a nudge. Let me help you share my heart in ways that can be received by others. I love the world, I want to woo everyone into relationship, and I am playing the long game. You don’t need to crowbar mention of me into every conversation.

Instead, follow the nudges, allow me to move and show up in ways far beyond your imagination - and then tell the stories of my goodness. Allow us to journey together, trusting the process, and when anyone asks you about the source of your joy, then you have the opportunity to share my love and goodness in a deeper way.

Light every moment of your day with my love and you’ll never grow weary and lose heart. Moving and living and navigating your day through the lens of my love brings lightness and joy to your soul in a way that nothing else can. Live in my love!

“Worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it.” 1 Peter 3:15b

Journal prompt: What story would you like to tell through me today?

You set yourself incredibly high standards and whilst this is to your credit, you have got to be kind to yourself! You expect things from yourself that you would never expect of other people so give yourself the same grace you extend to the people around you.

One of the joys of doing life in community is the impact you can make on others - and the impact they make on you. One of the challenges of doing life in community is that you get to make mistakes out loud, in public, in real-time! Transparency and vulnerability can only be earned by modelling it to others. If you refuse to let people in, how can you possibly expect to see it returned to you?

This is not about washing dirty laundry in public. This is about nurturing a safe space. Safe for the people around you and safe for you too. You don’t have to be perfect so stop trying so hard!

“You must love your neighbour in the same way you love yourself.” Mark 12:31 TPT

Journal prompt: In what specific areas of my life do I need to extend myself grace?

Never underestimate or forget the impact of love and kindness on someone’s day. You are the only bible some people will ever read. Your words carry weight. Your kindness softens hearts. Every act of love helps usher in the Kingdom.

You don’t see all of the ripples but all of it makes a difference in ways far beyond your imagination. You shift atmospheres and break strongholds with your love. Reject any whisper that suggests your actions don’t matter. Everything makes a difference. 

And that’s why it’s so important for us to have this time together. Time together allows us to deal with any heart issues before they start to impact how you show up in the day. Bring every pain and frustration to me and allow me to soothe and calm you. This isn’t about playing pretend when you have legitimate worries and concerns. This is about bringing everyone into the light of my love. Light is the only way to dispel darkness!

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.” John 1:5 NLT

Journal prompt: Is there anything on my heart right now that I’ve been refusing to explore with you?

I love doing life with you! When you intentionally make space in your day to hear my heart and share your problems with me, I move in unparalleled ways! This time together is so important, so vital. I am like oxygen. You can hold your breath for a moment but if you don’t breathe deeply you will find yourself withering and depleted. I don’t want that for you!

Remember all of the ideas and solutions we’ve explored together during these moments. Consider these ideas, remember them, when you find yourself tempted to rush into your day. Hearing my heart is not a chore to check off. It is vital to your day!

Never forget how we got here. Without us intentionally doing life together, you would not be where you are today. Everything you’re enjoying today links back to conversation with me, us doing life together. And that’s not because I refuse to speak unless you be still, I’m always speaking! But without the intentionality, you simply cannot hear me clearly.

Yes, you hear the nudges when you’re moving through your day but we need these quiet moments together too. Guard our time. Treat it as the precious treasure it really is. I love doing life with you, you make me smile, and I never want us to stop!

“For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty saviour. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.” Zephaniah 3:17 NLT

Journal prompt: How do I intentionally make space for us to do life together?

Do you believe that I have already prepared a solution for every problem currently on your mind? You say that you do, but your actions and your thoughts sometimes suggest otherwise. I have gone ahead of you and prepared the way. There is nothing on your mind that is outside of the remit of my care and attention and I am moving and working in all things, including these problems, for good.

Your problems only seem like problems because you don’t yet know the answer, so I’m inviting you instead to think of each and every problem as an opportunity. Each problem is an opportunity to trust me, an opportunity to see me move in an incredible way, an opportunity for you to be reminded of just how brilliant I really am.

Yes, you are being invited to partner with the one more brilliant than you can possibly comprehend and guess what? That makes you unstoppable when you embrace each and every opportunity!

“I’ll go ahead of you, clearing and paving the road. I’ll break down bronze city gates, smash padlocks, kick down barred entrances. I’ll lead you to buried treasures, secret caches of valuables. Confirmations that it is, in fact, I, God, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.” Isaiah 45:2+3 MSG

Journal prompt: What is the opportunity in front of me today?

I have given you the ability to see and execute unusual or unseen solutions. You believe the impossible, nothing is a no forever with you, which is why together we will find a solution to every obstacle. You want to achieve the things that others say are impossible but you’re not doing it alone. Get ready to take the people around you on an exhilarating journey!

You were created for this moment. On purpose and for a purpose. I knew exactly what I was doing when I was created you. Let me help you flourish and thrive as you move into this next season with me.

Navigating new opportunities is always challenging, especially when there is so much to learn, but never forget why you are here. What does it look like for you to be who I created you to be in every environment? How can you impact and influence the atmosphere with my love and joy? Remember, you do not have to work hard at this. Simply be who I created you to be with me and the rest will take care of itself!

“For nothing will be impossible with God.” Luke 1:37 ESV

Journal prompt: What impossible dreams are done from your perspective?

You are going to have seasons when things feel much busier and more intense than you might previously have experienced. When that happens, “when” not “if”, it’s going to be even more important for you to guard the precious, vital, life-giving parts of your day.

Don’t allow the busy to pull you away from a life lived with me. That would not be my best for you. Doing life with me is how you got to where you are today so guard our time. If you try and do this without me, you will feel depleted, drained and burned out.

I love you so much and I love everything we do together. That’s why we’re exploring this now before things get critical. If you let us keep doing life together life this, you can totally sidestep “critical”. I do not want you to have to learn the hard way!

Keep doing life with me and let me love you. Live and move and operate from my love. That’s my best for you.

“Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.” John 5:19 BSB

Journal prompt: What does it look like for us to do life together?

The things that are on your heart are there because they’re on my heart. I choose to act and move through you so you shouldn’t be surprised to see your desires and my desires lining up. Instead, recognise that I have given you everything you need for this moment and allow me to move in your life.

You can do everything I had in mind for you when I saw you and knew you before creating the world. Yes, I saw and knew this moment. I knew we’d be having this conversation and I prepared a way to make all things possible.

How? Move with me and allow me to move in your life. Stop trying so hard. You’re not here to manufacture the outcome. You simply need to keep doing what you’ve been doing thus far - hear and act on the nudges. There’s always room to grow yes, but don’t change or remove the thing that got you to this moment - conversation and moving with me.

“I can do all things through him who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 ESV

Journal prompt: What’s on your heart?

There are so many people you’ve met because of what you’ve been doing. You have impacted so many lives and been impacted yourself because of the journey you’ve been on. You wouldn’t be where you are today if not for the last few years.

Everything you’ve experienced, all of it fits together and helps with whatever tomorrow may bring. Nothing is wasted. I really have been getting you ready.

And yes, what comes next may look different to what you expected but you know in part and see only in part. If I’d shown you a picture of tomorrow and laid everything out for you, you would never have believed it to be possible.

In truth, I couldn’t have shown you tomorrow because you wouldn’t have heard me. We are in relationship the way we are today because of the journey so don’t despise the journey, embrace it. Thank me for it because the path you’ve travelled has made you who you are today. You couldn’t have everything that is to come without it.

“If someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way. Keep your conscience clear.” 1 Peter 3:15b+16 NLT

Journal prompt: What are you inviting me to be thankful for today?

I really am working every single detail of your life into something good and I know what I’m doing. I’ve always known what I’m doing, even when it looks confusing or feels uncertain to you. Nothing is accidental. Everything fits together beautifully. Yes, even the really hard moments. I know you don’t see how but nothing is ever wasted. I am moving and working in all things, getting you ready. Trust me and trust the process.

When you face your very next challenge - “when” not “if” because life in the current age will always have challenges, even when you’re doing all of it with me - remember this moment. Your life is not defined by the challenging moments, they’re simply an inevitable part of the process, so remember the excitement and delight in this moment. Revel in it. Let me bring you back to the remembrance of this moment so you will not grow weary and lose heart.

“So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.” Galatians 6:9 NLT

Journal prompt: What are you showing me in this moment?

Seeing is not believing. Believing is seeing and I have given you eyes that are wide open! It’s time to believe me for the visions and dreams I’ve laid before you. Those glimpses I’ve given you of what can be are like little deposits of hope. I’m getting ready to make good on what I’ve put inside of you. Reject calls to be realistic and instead, believe me for what others call impossible.

Nothing is impossible for me and when you partner with me, you are working with the one who put those crazy, “unrealistic” dreams inside of you. Do you believe that I would give you those dreams only to tease and torment you? Of course not!

Not every dream will play out the way you expected it to when I first whispered to your heart but what if things are even better than you could possibly imagine? What if I can move in ways that are exceedingly, abundantly better than you might ever dare hope? What if I can and I will?

“God can do anything, you know - far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.” Ephesians 3:20 MSG

Journal prompt: What are you inviting me to see with fresh eyes?

You shouldn’t really be surprised that wonderful things happen when you hear and act on the nudges from me. I am good and I love you so why wouldn’t those invitations bring delight into your day? It’s cute that I have the ability to delight you of course but you haven’t seen anything yet. Get ready to experience wonder and delight like you’ve never experienced it before!

And all of it as a result of hearing and acting on those little nudges and invitations that slip into your day to day life with me. I don’t need great big swathes of uninterrupted time with you in order to show up and show off. I love delighting you in the ordinary moments of every day life too.

Why? Because I love you. Yes, there is a bigger picture that I see and know and am working out for good but sometimes, many times, I enjoy delighting you simply because I love you and want to put a smile on your face. Let me help you live from a place of wonder and delight. Trust in my love for you and move with me again today.

“Give God the right to direct your life, and as you trust him along the way, you’ll find he pulled it off perfectly!” Psalm 37:5 TPT

Journal prompt: What’s the invitation today?

Do you trust that I know what I’m doing? When things feel uncertain or difficult, do you believe that I have gone ahead of you and prepared a way? And even when you don’t know and can’t see how, can you take me at my word and allow me to show up in your life with my very best solution for you and the people you do life with?

Stop trying to second guess what my best will look like. Yes, plan with me, ask me questions and explore with me, but when I tell you that it’s not time for an answer or ask you to simply let go and allow me to move, can you do that?

Your ability to let go and let me be God in your life is directly related to your ability to trust me. Your ability to trust me is directly related to your understanding and picture of who I am. I am love and I am good. Everything in your life can be filtered through that truth and that is how you trust.

“Let everyone give all their praise and thanks to the Lord! Here’s why - he’s better than anyone could ever imagine. Yes, he’s always loving and kind, his faithful love never ends.” Psalm 107:1 TPT

Journal prompt: Does my picture of you need a makeover? How do you want to be known by me?

What if you don’t need to remember everything in order to embrace my best? You love to take notes and highlight passages in books so you don’t miss anything but what if you trusted me to bring to your remembrance exactly what you need, exactly when you need it?

Sometimes the very best thing you can do is to simply pause in a moment and embrace the love you experienced. Togetherness as part of a team is not something you’re ever going to write down in your notebook after an event, for example, but it is exactly what you need.

Reminders of my love for you are not new teaching so you rarely find yourself noting that either but you always need my love. And opportunities to experience my heart in a new way as you worship cannot be easily articulated so those too will fail to make their way into your notes but the moment will live in your heart forever.

Journalling is wonderful, I love sharing my heart with you and I’m inviting you into new ways of doing life together. Don’t miss the invitation just because it looks different.

“But forget all that - it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18+19 NLT

Journal prompt: What is the invitation today?

You don’t need to have your eyes closed or play a special piece of music to hear me speaking to you. Instead, to really do life together in the way you do life with your best friend, this is about recognising that I’m always with you, always ready and willing to chat with you, and that can happen even in the middle of a crowd.

You don’t have to make a drama out of it. What if you simply paused, stilled your heart and allowed yourself to really hear me?

Remembering of course that I’m with you in all your conversations too. That great idea you shared or the solution you uncovered as you were speaking were both from me. This is less about declaring, “thus saith the Lord” and all about revelling and enjoying and appreciating our connectedness.

Those pieces that are challenging are also a great reason to talk to me. Think of each challenge as an invitation, an invitation to reject independence. Reject independence and recognise that you were created to operate best from within your relationship with me. You’re not meant to play on your own so stop trying!

“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10 NIV

Journal prompt: What’s on your heart right now?