Expected End
By Megan Long
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Megan Long
Megan Long is a author from Central Alabama. Her passion and prayer is to help lead others closer to the Lord where He is our soul dependence and strength. Her husband is her best friend and she has a lovely step daughter and while finishing this book they will soon expect to have another daughter coming soon. Life seems to be ever changing but I have seen God in every chapter we walk through.
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Expected End - Megan Long
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Rooted and Grounded in Love
Ephesians 3:17
This Book is Dedicated to the Lord
for His unconditional Love.
Im so very thankful that HE never gave up on me! Also to those struggling, alone, or the ones who have made so many mistakes but thirst for more in life, I wrote this book to share my testimony because its most importantly what the Lord asked of me and also if I can help just one person through all the mistakes I’ve made then all the glory to the Lord!
Thank you to all the readers for giving me this opportunity to share my story. As we go through this book, may it help us rely so much more on God than ourselves. I know not all of this book may apply to your exact situation but through each chapter, lets pray together asking the Lord to help us grow closer to Him and may He speak to our hearts about what we need to work on in our own lives. Fall into His warm embrace and give all our worries and concerns to the Lord.
Contents
Introduction
1 Firm Foundation or Sinking Sand
2 Fear of Change
3 Stop!! Rough Road Ahead!
4 It’s So Heavy
5 I Can Fix This
6 Keep it Steady
7 Change of Pace
8 Must Keep On
9 My Own Efforts
10 Digging Deeper
11 The Checklist
12 Gaining Perspective
13 Hard but Necessary
14 Just You and Me
15 Loving Support
16 Tried and Tested
17 Forgiven but not Forgotten
18 Mending in His Eyes
19 Listening and Humbling
20 Waiting …just Waiting
21 Just A Cup
Conclusion
Introduction
W e all have a choking fear of failure, whether its failing loved ones, our jobs, or parenting. It’s back there in the recesses of our mind ready to pounce and squash us like a bug. It’s relentlessly tiring, between being the perfect spouse you want to be or the mom who doesn’t miss a thing, our social media expectations and the everyday grind, everything wants to put that pressure and fear in us that we might mess up and fail. But what if I told you, It’s Ok.
Don’t be afraid
I’ll catch you if you fall.
It’s rather comforting to know the Lord unconditionally loves us and no matter what He will be by your side. Oh He definitely wants to give us the means to succeed and push through this harsh world but sometimes when we slip and fall, thats where we grow.
Our Heavenly Father relentlessly tells us this over and over. HE cast our sins as far as the east is from the west
, come unto me all ye who are weary laden and I will give you rest.
God does not give us a spirit of fear but to love and have a sound mind! Can we for a few brief moments fade away the distractions and expectations, giving HIM our fears because no matter what the mistake or failure, or our past, HE offers unconditional forgiveness if we but only ask.
"The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." Isaiah 40:3-5
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FIRM FOUNDATION
OR SINKING SAND
D o you remember a time in your life when you felt unforgiven and judged? In today’s time, that’s just about every day, isn’t it! We all have a fear of failing something or someone which leads us back to unforgiveness. What if I can’t do it and they never forgive me?
What if tell them no and they never talk to me again?
We think we aren’t good enough, we’ll be judged, they will hold it against us… Grudges, Judging, Bullying, Hatred, Loneliness, Desertion…. All of these leave nasty scars on us! But the one thing we must remember about our past is that it is merely our history lesson not a place in which we should live.
Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
I was very blessed to have a life centered around the Lord. Life started out with our family in the Ministry. We were missionaries to the Philippines, then later for many years, my dad was a pastor and we were always in some form of ministry for God. We were a family of five and with my brother and sister to always learn from, well, let’s just say I avoided many childhood spankings. Walking the straight and narrow and firm discipline was taught daily in our household. Little did I know how much I would cleave to that later in life.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
But let me just regain your attention real quick because although I may have been taught that starting out, like many of us, I strayed way off the beaten path and made my share of mistakes later in life. Two divorces, alcohol addiction, drugs and more… one decision after another, I was on a path of self destruction. I got so lost and so confused. I was at a complete loss of what to do and where to