As promised, I want to share a break down of the past year. A lot of what I'll be sharing will be coming from my journal and other notes during 2006. In many ways, it has been like a back and forth conversation with Him over the months. I share this with you, so that can see the progression of what He was speaking to me and I to Him.

JANUARY

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  January 22-
  When God tells me to move, I need to be obedient and move. He will reveal it one step at a time.

FEBRUARY

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  February 19 - He is fully aware of my needs, fully aware of what is going to happen to me.

MARCH

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  March 12
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  When He moves me into a new season, I need to move with Him. I can't stay where I am.
  Season of change - is for my good - is for my best. We
  find (as humans) ourselves resistent to change - it isn't always painless.

According to my journal, it was in March that I began to ask the Lord if it was time for a change.

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  March 19 -
  God ALWAYS has something to say to me; I may not be able to hear, understand or listen. He is more willing to speak than I am to listen. I am not where I am going but I am also not where I was.
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  March 26
  - Everything that has a beginning has an end; the end brings a new beginning.

MAY

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  May 7 -
  God isn't done or finished with me yet. He has more He wants to do in and through me.

JUNE

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  June 25 - Trust God to finish what He starts. Glory comes from my allowing God to "squeeze" me. Circumstances are God's gifts to my glory - His glory within me. I will "pass through" these trials so that God gets glory.

JULY

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  July 16 -
  Doesn't matter what the situation, God can use it. With Him, ALL things are possible.
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  July 30 - God doesn't do things halfway. His Word comes to meet me full on.

AUGUST

In my journal, I've written: "In August, You began to speak to me about how what our calling looks like can change and not necessarily stay the same. And "It's OK for that to happen as a natural progression of what You have for me." You have the right to change and expand my calling.

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  August 13 -
   I am called to walk in His workmanship. Every day, I have a choice how I walk. The decisions I make have an accumulative impact on the future. Don't give up on yourself. The plans He has are still HIS plans. My calling affects the calling of others. What my calling looks like can change. It doesn't necessarily stay the same. God LOVES it when I am in a place where I have to get my direction from Him. He will bring me through tough places where I want to quit. He's not through with me yet. He will finish what He started. He will work it out. You have something else You want me to do. The anointing is still there. Help me to remain in You. Bring the change, Father. Help me to remain in You.
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  August 14 -
  I wrote: " What I have sensed You saying to me.....was this: "I have something else I want you to do. The anointing is still there. I will help you remain in Me."
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  August 27 -
  "I have a new place for you. Do you want to go?" It takes faith to go to a new place that I know nothing about. God asks me to go, by faith, without seeing what is ahead. It will not look like what I think it should. God doesn't necessarily move according to my expectations because He is God and I am not!
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  August 29 -
  I wrote in my journal about being discontented and He spoke to me that I was doing better than I thought because I continued to seek Him through it all.

SEPTEMBER

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  September 10 -
  Listen to God, Your Guide. He will tell you where to put your hand. It will take humbleness to ask for help.
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  September 17 - God wants me to grow from being a scared sheep into a mighty warhorse. As a warhorse, I'm a carrier of His Word!
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  September 24 -
  When God opens a door, it's because He is coming through it. It brings forth great change.

OCTOBER

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  October 1 -
  My appointment today is about what is to end and what is to begin. A change of heart = a change of action. When God makes the appointment, no one can change it. I have a choice whether I walk in it. I can't change the time - I choose, though, how I walk in that time. That choice determines which way my life will go.
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  October 4 - I wrote that I didn't know what You were doing and I didn't understand, but wished I did (a common theme for me, I think).
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  October 5
  - I wrote, "Father, where You have me right now is where You want me." Despite what I may see in the physical, I'm where You want me to be.
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  October 15 - I can ask God to either take care of my circumstances or to take care of me. It's a choice.
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  October 16
  
  - I wrote, "I don't know for sure what You want me to do. There's a part of me that would like to do something new, to walk away from where things are at and go  in a new direction."

NOVEMBER

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  November 4 -
  The Lord reminded me that He desires to lead and guide me and He has called me to be centered in Him. I thanked Him that my trials are only for a season, that there would be a time of completion and they would be over.
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  November 12 -
  I was reminded that a Rhema Word from God is what He speaks to me personally. In reading from my journal from 2005, I came across a word from the Lord that had been spoken to me from my pastor. In that word, the Lord promised that I would have more Rhema words from Him, that they will always be fresh manna for me, that He has an abundant supply for me and that what He gives me is meant to be shared.
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  November 16 -
  I again wrote in my journal about wondering if it was time to do something new, something else, asking Him if He was pushing me towards another place.
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  November 18 -
  He reassured me that I'm going to make it through all of this current season. I may not always feel like it, but I am a strong woman of great faith and hope.
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  November 19 -
  He reminds me that He knows my name, knows all of my secrets, and loves me just the same, despite all He knows.
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  November 29 -
  He led me to somthing that Joyce Meyer had written near a passage in  My Everyday Life Bible (Amplified) on the Romans 8:28 section. She wrote about how sometimes it requires that first step of faith in obedience, even if you're not sure if it's the right or wrong step. Sometimes we might be wrong and think that it's safer to stay put, where it's safe. But if God has truly not told us to move forward, we'll soon be miserable. God can redeem our mistakes in our steps, though, if our hearts are right. He is able to "work it all for good." 
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  This resonated in my heart and spirit what I read there. I knew that He was asking me to step out of my "comfort zone" and test what I believed He wanted - what He was asking me to do. That it was time to do something new.
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  The final paragraph in what Joyce had written says this:
  "I exhort your with this truth. Do not spend your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may keep you from God's perfect plan for your life. Trust His word and keep your heart willing and ready to obey. You will find throughout your life taht God regularly calls us out of our comfort zones and into new places of faith and growth in Him."
  I shared what I had read with a close friend and felt that God was telling me that it was time to see what else was out there.

DECEMBER

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  December 3 -
  I asked the LORD to confirm this (stepping out in faith) to me during the AM service at my church. And He did that for me, not once, but twice! First, through a Max Lucado story that Scott and Lisa Nelson (friends and co-workers) shared on "Faith" for the Advent reading and then through my pastor's message.  In my spirit, I heard Him tell me, "Sue, it's OK for you to go out on a limb for Me, to trust that I'm leading you. Don't be afraid to take a risk with Me." Fear will stop us from taking a risk, but there is no fear in (His) love. And His love means there's no reason for me to fear!
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  December 4 -
  I approached my team leader, Scott, about the LORD telling me it was time for a change. I wrote later in my journal, " LORD, I don't know where You want me next. I'm excited that You look out for me and know what is in store. I'm excited to see what door You will open. Be my Peace in the midst of it all!"
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  December 8 -
  I wrote: "I wait for You. This is not an unfamiliar place. I'm at peace in my heart and my soul and spirit because You are in control and know where You are taking me. I trust You."
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  December 10 -
  If I have faith, God is going to do something through me. Wrestling with God is His way of working us over. It is to enable us to do what He's calling us to do. When He is working on us, we feel it. God hasn't abandoned His plan. He loves us too much to leave us the way we are. It's a continuing process. God is still creating; only He can create something out of nothing. God LOVES variety and likes the variety of color He sees in me.
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  December 17 -
  Sometimes He puts me in a low place to bring me to a high place. Father, I thank You that You are my mighty Counselor and my Prince of Peace. Being in this season where you are taking me from to whatever is next, I know that I can trust You to lead and guide me by Your Spirit. Your Spirit is my counsel that allows me to know what steps to take next. I know that You also speak peace to me. I thank You that Your peace keeps me.  I wait on You, on Your timing, trusting that Your counsel will lead me and that Your peace will keep me. I thank You that You always want what's best for me and You know in advance what is necessary to bring this to pass, whatever it is, whatever it looks like. I also thank You for Your timing - it is perfect! You are awesome, God! You are awesome!
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  December 24 -
  Luke 1:37 - For nothing is impossible with God.
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  Father, while I know You do the impossible, I also know that You ask me to do the impossible - so that You can be glorified. I can't do anything without You that You call me to do. Your challenge to me even now is to trust You, even when the next step is into the unknown. Even if it's something new -  something new is unseen and I don't have any details.
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  What do You want do do with me, within me? I know that You have been building layer upon layer to make me more like You, created in You image - showing Your glory to the world. I want that - that my life would bring You honor and glory.
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  Thank You for choosing me and not leaving me out in the world to fend for myself. I can imagine how lost I would be without You - and it makes me shudder. How blessed I am that You hold me in the palm of Your hand.
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  Thank You that what You've started, You'll complete and finish.
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  December 31 -
  God reveals His plan one step and one day at a time. Pursue with passion all God has called you to be - be the person He called you to be.
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  Joyce Meyer: "God will fill your heart with knowledge that will enlighten you at the right time."

And that, dear reader, was the year that was 2006. I have some final things to share about what has occured in 2007 so far, but that will come in Winds of Change - Part Five. Thanks for reading!