Get Your Heart Right!

Over the last several months I became increasingly frustrated with my job. Staff changes, rule changes, bureaucracy and red tape brought me to my limit. My frustration led me to grumble and complain, not to very many people but to a few. It came to the point where I dreaded going to work due to a particular individual who had begun to show outright contempt for me (even my co-worker had started to notice). I had begun to look for a new job but to no avail. I received no interviews or phone calls despite completing many applications for jobs that I was more than qualified for. 

One Saturday, after a particularly dreadful week with lots of tension and hostility with this individual, I got down on the ground before the Lord with my face buried in the floor. (This is a very difficult task due to my back injury but that is kind of what makes this all even more powerful to me.) 

I began to express every frustration to God and my complaints regarding this particular individual. I told God, "I can't love them. You have to love them through me. You have to give me Your love for them." And then I prayed in the Spirit until I came to a place of peace. (The Holy Spirit really does give us the power we need for daily living but this is a topic for another day.) By the power of the Holy Spirit, I began to pray blessings over this individual, a person I had seen as my enemy. I prayed that they would be blessed in every possible way. The crazy thing was that I meant it!  I just had to get my heart right before God. 

Shortly after my prayer time, I began checking my phone for job postings. It seemed like suddenly there were more new postings than had been posted in a long time so I began applying.

Throughout that weekend, I found myself praying for this individual.  

On Monday, I went to work and encountered the person that I had spent the weekend praying for. They attempted to be cold towards me but by the power of God's Spirit, I was able to love on them and be extra kind despite the attempts to bring tension and chaos. Later that day, I received not one but two phone calls for job interviews!!

I went on one interview that Tuesday and was told that they would let me know something towards the end of the following week. But the next day (Wednesday) I got a call for a second interview with the director of the program for the following evening. 

Bad weather delayed my two interviews on Thursday but the following Tuesday I had a second interview with the company and by Thursday I was notified that I had gotten the job!

I firmly believe that the reason I have a new job now is because I got my heart right. God hates grumbling and complaining yet I do it more than I care to admit. But allowing Him to come in and change me, change my attitude, change my perspective is what makes all the difference in the world!

Maybe, you, like me, have a situation or person that has been causing you major frustration. My challenge to you is to get your heart right!  Not so that God will give you the thing you want. In my heart I had come to the place that if God never opened another door for a job, that I could be content right where I was. Getting your heart right simply means giving God access and permission to work in your heart and if we ask Him to change us, He most certainly will! That is where the true blessing is! 

So, GET YOUR HEART RIGHT! It will do you more good than you realize!