Born for more
Cody Jefferson (@codyjefferson) shared a post on Instagram that stopped me in my tracks.
It read: “God is calling deeper.”
It almost brought me to tears.
It said: “2025 wasn’t random. It was preparation. The pullback was alignment. The delays were protection. This next season won’t be carried by shallow identity or convenient faith. It will be carried by those willing to release old patterns and step into the identity Heaven has been shaping in the dark.”
I felt that in my bones.
2025 was just plain freaking hard. No matter how hard I tried, how much I prayed, how loudly I cried out to God, nothing seemed to move. Week after week. Month after month. I felt helpless and yet, strangely, I kept trusting. Trusting that there was more. Trusting there was light at the end of the tunnel. Trusting that God had not forgotten me.
I was born for more – I know this to my core. But looking back now, I can see the unmistakable thread of God’s hand woven through the last few years. The disappointment of my divorce. The courage it took to break an engagement that would not have led me where I was meant to go — and the painful realization that I had settled. And then, the unexpected joy of finding my husband, my forever love.
Through all of it, God was building me for what comes next.
Delays, I understand now, are not denials. They are protection. Preparation. Proof that God has something better in store. They force us to lean on Him more deeply, more honestly, more fully.
In the stillness of 2025, God was realigning me. Recalibrating me. Preparing me to be entrusted with more.
I have been asking God to use me. And I now understand that before He can use us publicly, He refines us privately. He molds us for the roles ahead and for the plans He has to prosper us and give us a future (Jeremiah 29:11).
2025 was refinement.
2026 is trust.
“The next season cannot be carried by shallow identity or borrowed faith. The next phase requires depth — of spirit, character, and conviction.”
Depth is learned. Often painfully.
God has been confronting the identities we built out of survival and the beliefs we formed out of fear, because they cannot sustain what He has spoken over our lives. We were not created to live small, scattered, or reactive. We were created in His image, entrusted with authority, and called to steward what He places in our hands with clarity (Genesis 1:26).
He does not call us higher without calling us deeper.
For me, 2025 was a call back to total commitment. To daughterhood. To surrender. To yielding fully to His plan, even knowing that nothing familiar would remain untouched. Even knowing I would have to shed old skin.
Pruning is necessary for growth.
For much of my life, I lived to prove myself, to parents, to clients, to the world. My next season is about being trustworthy before God. Because deeper with Him means more: more authority, more responsibility, more presence.
I refuse to live small.
I want to be someone Heaven can build with, not just bless occasionally.
2025 revealed what I had learned to hide: insecurities masked by performance, busyness disguised as purpose, emotional fatigue baptized as discipline, and patterns I called identity simply because I wore them long enough.
But God only presses where He plans to pour.
And I’m ready.
