WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 47-52

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 47

God will equip you with KNOWLEDGE that will prompt you when it’s time to disengage from a relationship or process.  Before you back away, accept that conflict can be an opportunity for true love and grace to flow! Don’t make the mistake of believing people must agree on every issue to be agreeable.  Welcome the opportunity to talk to those with whom you might disagree.  Be COURAGEOUS enough to look for peace in the midst of conflict.

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 48

POSITIONING is a matter of strategy, and this strategy requires you to listen to God’s voice!  Going off on your own will put you completely out of place and in a prime location for destruction.  Heed God’s voice.  Without His KNOWLEDGE and wisdom, there’s no way you will ever know where you are supposed to be.  Get alone.  Get quiet. Now, listen as God reveals to you the POSITION He has for you.

 

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 49

God wants to update your files with new KNOWLEDGE and information!  Being equipped with old information prevents you from accurately distinguishing friend from foe, causing you to fight off the very person to whom God has EXPOSED you in order for them to help you!  God often sends help in unlikely places from unexpected sources.  As God directs you, learn to put away your sword and open up your heart!

 

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 50

Before you run, realize that it is usually the easy way out!  Your new journey takes COURAGE! If you’re always running away from your problems, you will never mature into the person God designed you to be.  Maturity requires that you know how to discern and decide when to run and when to figure out how to make something work.  Be COURAGEOUS enough to stand firm and no longer make flight your customary response.

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 51

Making assumptions prevents you from respecting differences and learning from others.  POSITIONING and EXPOSURE necessitate that you spend time with people who are different from you.  It takes COURAGE, but the resulting KNOWLEDGE is priceless.  When you only interact with people who look like you and think like you, you have no checks and balances to avoid extremes and to provide wisdom.  Be patient in the new relationships God has given you, and look for the deep things that can unite you with others.

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 52

We’ve reached the final day of The 52 Days of Pecking Orders, but don’t stop!  Don’t turn back!  Your POSITION has changed!  You’ve been EXPOSED to things you’ve never seen!  You’re more COURAGEOUS than you’ve ever been!  You have new KNOWLEDGE to help in the days ahead!  Now that you have all this, this is not the time to kick up your feet and relax.  Go forth and possess all that God has for you.  Fulfill His purpose for your life and watch Him take you to an even greater level!

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 43-46

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 43

PECKING toward your future will introduce you to conflict.  Remain calm! Before you “fight”, you must select where and when to direct aggression.  To heal any conflict, you have to give up the need for revenge, retaliation and being right and “fight” for the greater good.  This requires you to exercise patience, wisdom and faith in God’s goodness.  As you PECK, choose your  battles wisely

 WTAL - 52 Days of Pecking Orders - Day 44

Before you credit extenuating circumstances beyond your control to your achievement or failure, you must admit that you are a victim or victor of your own making because of a key decision. This level of self-honesty takes COURAGE! Your decisions set the course for your life. Past decisions and their consequences can be offset by decisions you make now. Hold yourself accountable for your decisions and exercise the process of reflection, discernment and decision.

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 45

Being overwhelmed by your feelings as you start PECKING and acting upon God’s will for your life is normal.  You will face emotions like fearing you will fail and have only yourself to blame.  Maybe you’ll feel sad and ashamed of past mistakes.  Don’t judge yourself.  All of this is normal, and God is right there with you, promising to never leave you nor forsake you (Deut. 31:6).  Don’t quit!  Get out of your feelings and KEEP PECKING!

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 46

No matter what stage you find yourself in while PECKING, you will encounter instances that tempt you to “fight”. But, before you fight, you must determine if it’s winning or your love of fighting that is driving you.  There are things in your life that have conditioned a fight-prone personality.  We have to love, live and survive.  However, think deeply to understand whether the spoils justify the fight.  Don’t allow an old, fight-loving mentality destroy all that you’ve built during the PECKING process

WTAL - 52 Days of Pecking Orders - Day 39-42

WTAL - 52 Days of Pecking Orders - Day 39

Before you quit anything, gain some KNOWLEDGE and do a self-examination! Though you might want to quit your life, leave everything behind and start over some place new, understand that you will leave the circumstances…but, you’ll never escape yourself. During PECKING, we sometimes quit the wrong things at the wrong time. Take COURAGE and face the situation head on so that, if you must leave, you can clearly think about where you want to go and what you want to do next!

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 40

PECKING will call forth dreams you’ve buried prematurely that God wants to resurrect in your life.  He will resurrect these dreams because they are a part of His purpose for your life.  Grieve the past wrong choices you’ve made, but forgive yourself.  Take COURAGE and celebrate hope for brand new opportunities.  Face the facts about your dreams and how you’ve changed over the years.  Are you COURAGEOUS enough to step into the resurrected dreams?  PECK!

WTAL – 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 41

Before you break through to the next level of success, understand that you will nearly fail.  But, don’t stop PECKING!  Allow me to explain.  People who’ve achieved great things are no more talented than you.  They’ve simply learned to lean into their mistakes and persevere through them to the next level of challenge and expectation. Don’t quit! I’ve never seen a quitter win, but I see winners because they didn’t quit!  God has you right where He wants you.  Keep PECKING!

WTAL- 52 Days of Pecking Orders – Day 42

Before you obtain dreams worth having, you will have to take risks!  You must take COURAGE, overcome your fear of new heights and be willing to risk failing at the next level!  If you see no way humanly possible for your dream to succeed, that is a great asset because it keeps you humble and willing to accept KNOWLEDGE from others.  As you keep PECKING, ask for new strength and press on in the face of risk!

 

WTAL - 52 Days of Pecking Orders - Day 35- 38

                               WTAL - 52 Days of Pecking Orders - Day 35

When God POSITIONS you, He has a way of putting you in a place where you have no choice but to move from the safe center to the uncertain edge of a new experience! Admittedly, you would avoid making the necessary changes or facing the edge if you could. It’s here that you learn the value of faith and fuel of prayer. Activate both as God POSITIONS you to face uncertainty.

.                                                             WTAL - 52 Days of Pecking Orders - Day 36

DO NOT TURN BACK! You are doing so well! Before you give in to your anxieties, respect what is at stake! This whole idea of PECKING may seem scary. After all, you’re operating outside your comfort zone the entire time. But, the only way to avoid these nerve-racking feelings is to simply play it safe by sticking to what is easy and familiar. Expect to be uncomfortable because the stakes of your future are high! KEEP PECKING!!!

                                          WTAL - 52 Days of Pecking Orders - Day 37

Before you give up, affirm that the sky is the limit! You’ve been POSITIONED and EXPOSED. You’ve taken COURAGE and gathered KNOWLEDGE. You’ve set your goals high, knowing you could not achieve them on your own. Even if this is your second or umpteenth attempt, DON’T GIVE UP! You’re right on track. You were not created to play it safe. Take the risk and continue asking God, “Father, what’s next?”

                                                            WTAL - 52 Days of Pecking Orders - Day 38

As you keep PECKING, you’ll be faced with the temptation to end a relationship of any kind. Before you do, consider the consequences. Ending a relationship carries with it unseen ripples of regret and second thoughts. Before you “sign the dotted line” to terminate a relationship, look at all the facets of the relationship along with your motives. Do everything you can possibly do to preserve a relationship before ending it. Your experiences here will help you as God EXPOSES you to more relationships.