Spiritual Turbulence: Wisdom Keys to Help You Stay Focused During Seasons of Spiritual Transition

By Arnita L. Fields

Is your life feeling rocky? Uncomfortable? Are you feeling unsure of what’s next for you? Be encouraged!
Sometimes the pathway between your ordained spiritual assignment and where you are currently can often be the source of great discomfort. However, by keeping your focus on God you will understand that He has already charted the course and has made a way for you to arrive at your next destination safely.
In Spiritual Turbulence, readers will learn about the turbulent winds often associated with each season of spiritual transition (shifting). Readers will experience encouragement and become strengthened in their Christian walk as they begin to understand those uncomfortable periods in our lives are orchestrated by God to elevate us to the next level.
Buckle your seatsbelts! It’s time to transition beginning with the end in mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arnita L. Fields
• Release date: Jul 7, 2016

Arnita L. Fields

Arnita L. Fields a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the author of thirteen books and co-author of six anthologies. She is the owner of Unity Three Publications.As a Christian counselor, Arnita L. Fields specializes in counseling engaged and married couples in crisis. She focuses on helping couples become spiritually and emotionally whole so they can enjoy a lifelong, healthy covenant relationship. Experiencing how God restored her own marriage has been the catalyst for Fields' advocacy to work with married couples. She says, “Prophetic and marriage counseling are part of my divine assignment from God.”Arnita has a diploma in Biblical Counseling and certification in biblical, premarital, and marriage counseling from Light University. She earned an Associates’ in Psychology Counseling from Liberty University, a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Victory University, and a Masters’ in Human Services Counseling from Regent University. Arnita is currently completing the final coursework for a Doctorate of Religious Studies (D.R.S.) in Christian Counseling at Trinity Seminary & Bible College.She has been married to her husband and best friend, Anthony, for twenty-four years. “We’re far from perfect but divinely designed for each other.”If you would like to contact Arnita, you may send an email to [e-mail] or visit her website at www.arnitalfields.info

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Preface

On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, while flying to Wisconsin from Tennessee, the aircraft in which I was a passenger experienced several periods of severe turbulence. There in my seat, I felt an overwhelming sense of peace envelope me. As I began to hear the murmuring of those around me, I prayed a prayer for safety and turned my focus toward the window. We continued to encounter turbulence, and the plane shook and shifted with the wind. The pilot navigated the plane upward into a higher altitude. There, it became much easier for the aircraft to maintain balance against the turbulent and unsteady flow of the wind.

I looked down at the mass of heavy clouds below us. In that moment, it occurred to me just how amazing God is as the Sovereign creator of all the earth. In all of His wisdom, every time we are faced with any degree of turbulence, He is always right there to usher in a wave of peace which we have a choice to openly embrace or not. Once received, His peace allows us to rise above the turbulence going on below us. While it may not immediately take the winds away, it does allow for us to transition forward and climb up higher to where God desires us to be.

The word of God in Isaiah 59:19 reads, "So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him" (KJV).

For the times when the enemy of your soul comes in to try to redirect your focus to the negative activity going on around you, trust that God, who is strong and mighty, is right alongside to help you set your face like flint. No matter what may be going on or even how hard the winds may blow, understand that God is truly a very present help in the time of need. Today, know for certain that you have a choice. At the end of