Manna Monday | following God's plan

Hey, guys. So I'm Jess. I work front desk admin at the Real Health Co, and I am doing our June Manna Monday for the first of the month. I just graduated from UT, and now I'm starting grad school in July. I'm gonna be talking about kind of my plan versus God's plan and a big test that I went through recently regarding grad school.

This test really made me understand that I was working towards my plan and no longer working towards God's plan. I feel like I lost a lot of sight of what his plan was for me and what I thought was his plan kind of turned into mine as I got really comfortable in what I thought I was supposed to be doing. I feel like he really put me through this to understand that it's okay to be uncomfortable, and I got too comfortable in what I thought I needed to be doing. My plan was to be going to life university just like Dr. B and Dr. Reed did post graduating college, and I am pursuing a career in chiropractic care. I truly believe that that's what I'm meant to do with my life.

I feel like that's my purpose. And God really made it clear that I got really comfortable with the fact that I was going to life. I was moving to Atlanta. That's what I was gonna do. That's been my plan for close to four years now, And I lost sight of His plan within that.

And I found out some things about life that made me realize that that wasn't the place for me. And it kind of took me by surprise. It was really a big punch in the gut of having to rework the next four years of my life. I started looking at other schools and found Palmer University in Florida. I'm from Florida.

So that was something that was interesting to me because I never thought I wanted to move back to Florida, but that ended up being the school that I fell in love with, and that's where I think I'm going now. I've always loved the bible verse, Jeremiah 29:11. I feel like everybody knows that one. "'For I know the plans I have for you,' says the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.'"

It's been my favorite Bible verse since I was eight years old, and that's just something I really lived my life through and understanding that in the uncertain in uncertainty and being uncomfortable, there's always a bigger and better plan for you. And I really started to understand that knowing that I was going to a different school and the next four years is gonna look very different for me. Life University in Atlanta is four years from my- or four hours from my hometown, and so is Palmer, which is in Port Orange. It's also four hours from my hometown. So that really wasn't a big factor in how far away I was gonna be from my family and that sort of thing.

But I always thought that I was meant to come back to Tennessee. I still believe that I'm meant to come back to Tennessee. This is my happy place. This is where I found my people. So being in Florida was really difficult for me to understand that that was where I was supposed to go with being so far away from where I feel like I'm meant to end up.

And sometimes our ideas and goals can cloud his plan for us, and you get lost in what you believe that your plan is. And it's okay to ask God for a sign. It's okay to be unsure. It's okay to be uncomfortable, but that's when you really need to pray. Dive into prayer.

Dive into the word, and keep the worldly thoughts and all of that out. Drown them out. Focus on God because there is a greater plan for us, and we don't always get to know what that is. And being uncomfortable with that is okay. It's natural because, obviously, we all wanna know what's ahead.

We wanna know what's coming, but that's not always that's not always the way that it is. Sometimes you have to be okay with the uncertainty and trust that that greater plan is gonna be good for you.