#25 A Year of Aligning with God's Blueprint, right down to the smallest of details.

I have some plans for 2024, goals, new year’s resolutions, whatever you want to call them. Have you made any plans for 2024? I have been guilty of leaving God out completely. Making my own plans then asking God to get on board with them and to bless and show his favor on them, my plans, not God's plan. 

Before going into more of 2024, Stop and Ask God what is his details for your life, work, marriage, family, podcast, business ect.... What are the plans that you want to share with me? And when you share those with me, I pray I walk (not run) those out down to the very smallest of details. God give me wisdom and disciple to make those plans so.  

God gave Noah the details on how to build the Ark "This is how you are to build it" Gen. 6:15 Crystal gives you 3 reasons why God gave Noah the details on how to build the Ark. Gen. 6:8&9 

Crystal gives us a prayer to pray for our 2024 and if you would like that prayer email her at info@crystalloyd.com and she will send that right over. 

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:07

Have you ever found yourself running? Running mentally, emotionally, spiritually, financially and even running physically from things in this life. This is no More Running the podcast for women. Hello, I'm your host, crystal Lloyd, and I've been known to run and still find myself running from the things in this life. Running from God, His calling, his purpose for my life. Running from change that's within my control, that needs to be made, or any type of change. Running from hard or even good or even just simple little things in this life. And God said to me Crystal, if you will stop running and surrender, there are things that we can accomplish together. Maybe you find yourself running as I have. I want you to know that you're not alone. Let's go from running to no More Running together. Let's get started with prayer, holy Spirit, we invite you to be a part of the podcast, the lessons, the life coaching and the sharing of our stories. Let it be known today that you are God. God, help us to go from running in this life, from whatever it may be that we're running from, from running to no More Running. In Jesus' name. Hey friends, thanks for joining us today on no More Running.

Speaker 1: 1:37

I'm Crystal, your host, and I am excited. This is the first podcast of 2024. I have taken off the whole month of December. I didn't know I was going to do that, but that's the way that life happened and took a step back, and I am so glad I did, because now I am so excited to come back in here and to record and to give you some new you know new podcasts for 2024. But today's podcast I want to tell you that I named it. This Is how you Are To Build it. What plans do you have for 2024 that will help us all of us to go from running to no More Running?

Speaker 1: 2:39

I know that I have made plans for 2024, goals, new Year's resolutions, whatever you want to call them. I usually don't like to call them New Year's resolutions, but I like to, you know, set some goals, or really, what I call is I've got plans. That's what I call them. So that is how it is for me. So how about you? Have you made some goals? Have you set some goals and made some plans? Because you know, I'm a planner and a lot of times in my 40s 40, how old am I? 40 something, years of life too many to count I make plans and I am a planner. I like the details, I organize those details, you know, down to the T. Yes, yes, I have a little bit of OCD going there and, yes, sometimes I can be a little controlling. I have that side of me. That side comes out sometimes that I could be a little controlling, a little OCD. But the problem is, is and has been, I have left thought out of my planning completely. I told God, I told God, I told my husband, I told my children this is what we're doing, this is when we're doing it, this is how we're doing it and where we're doing it, where we're going. So here's the plans, right here. Okay so, and I remember I want to share something with you because it's so funny and I thought about this when I was writing this and when I was about to record this In ministry, you know, I have talked about me, my husband been in ministry before, but I had planned a women's, you know, get together, whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 1: 4:45

But we were going away. So we live in Tennessee and we were going to, I think, north Carolina, south Carolina, for a conference and I want to think that it's like the confident women conference back then. So we were all excited about going in here. I've planned this trip and I mean, I made us an itinerary. You know the plans and okay, we'll go to the conference and we'll, we'll worship and we'll, you know, do all this stuff and then, after the conference, go back to Motel and in parentheses, I put sleep, make sure to get some sleep, sleep.

Speaker 1: 5:23

And so on our way back to the from the conference, on our way to the motel, all of us ladies saw Krispy Kreme and of course you know that the hotline was on, so we had to, you know, stop. So our bus driver, linda, I love her she took us ever worse, took everybody ever worse, and so she, she, she, it was so funny. But she took the bus and I mean completely did like turn around and it was like, okay, we were. And so I, just to make it funny, but it I was like I held up the list and I was like it's not on the list, it's not part of the plans, it's not. And so it was so fun that we all got to go to Krispy Kreme while the hotline was on and and I mean you should have seen the women, and it was across the road from our motel. So once we got done. So we all just walked over to the motel because, you know, I think our bus driver dropped us off and then left us. But it was such a sweet memory and I just remember, you know, I had made these plans and I really had put in the parentheses sleep, and everybody had gave me a hard time about that sleep.

Speaker 1: 6:46

Nobody, we can't talk, we can't, we can't do anything. We have to go back to the motel and sleep, and so that's kind of how it is for me. Okay. So I like to make these plans. I like to. You know I have whiteboards and I know you can't see them, but there's a whiteboard here, there's a whiteboard here, there's a whiteboard in the hallway, and so in the hallway I make plans for dinner, for a supper, and you know I go away from those plans sometimes and that's okay, you know that's, that's fine, but only I can go away from those plans. Nobody else can go away from those plans. Okay, so I have issues, okay, but okay, so you know I have been guilty of just leaving God out completely of my plans and I've told my children, told my family.

Speaker 1: 7:40

You know this is what we're doing, this is the details, and I didn't ask God. I didn't ask God what he thought I should or shouldn't do, or I didn't ask God for his details. It was all about crystal and my plans. I made plans and and excited I mean like I was excited for these plans and expected God. I expected God to get on board with my plans and not just get on board.

Speaker 1: 8:09

But, lord, will you bless, will you bless these plans, bless, bless these plans that you know that I want to do and that the family wants to do, and then do, do, do, do, and even I would even go as far as to, you know, ask the Lord for his favor on my plans, on Crystal's plans. Lord, will you show your favor on these plans and, you know, on these details and I'm not saying it's all bad, you know, I mean it's good to make plans, but to leave God out completely, that's the problem. And to expect God to just be like, okay, here God, here it is, here is my plans, and then I want you to get on board and to bless those and to show your favor on those, even though they may not be your plans. You know, that's the problem. That's the problem where we get run into and and it's like okay, so I don't really care, god, if this is your plan or not. This is my plan and I think this is the way we need to go. So that's when it becomes a problem, right there and so, and that I've been guilty of that before. So, but I would also, you know, would say to God make it so, make it so.

Speaker 1: 9:30

Is there any tracky fans out there? Okay, I have to admit I'm not a deep, diehard tracky fan. My husband, he's the tracky fan I watch because he watches Well, and I grew up on, like, star Trek and Star Wars and you know all that stuff, but still not you know the diehard tracky fans. But you remember, if you're out there and you are a Star Trek fan, but you remember John Luke Picard, he's the captain and he would tell his crew make it so, make it so. So here I am, I'm like okay, make it so, god. And then John Luke Picard would be make it so, number one, make it so. So I'm the captain here and I've been guilty of saying to God you know, make it so, god.

Speaker 1: 10:22

Here's the plans, here's the details, make it so. This is how this is, when this is, you know all that good stuff or not so good stuff, how, when, where? But this year I want us, I want us to try something different. I want to try something different for my life and I'm coaching us, us runners, together, to try something new for 2024. Let's stop, before we make those plans and maybe you've already made those plans and you've already got them on a whiteboard, on a piece of paper, on on a. Let me show you here what I've got here. I know you can't see it if you're listening on the audio version, but post-it notes, post-it notes. So here's the post-it notes. You know, put on the post-it notes all over the place, and so maybe you've already done that.

Speaker 1: 11:19

But let's go back or let's stop and ask God before making any plans and ask him before we go into you know any more of 2024. And ask God what is your details? You know, what is your plans for 2024? Lord, I need to know, I want to know.

Speaker 1: 11:43

But I want us to look at Noah. You know, when I've been studying this, for some reason I keep saying Jonah, but Noah, noah, noah, noah and the details that God gave him in Genesis, chapter 6. And I have my Bible here and I'm reading from the NIV version. I love the NIV version, it's just, I can understand it. So, if you want to go to your Bible in chapter 6 in Genesis and not, oh yeah, chapter 6. Okay, in verse 15, this is how you are to build it.

Speaker 1: 12:27

So you know, god gave Noah the details. God knew what was coming, he knew the flood was coming and he gave Jonah the plans, the details. And I wonder, because I'm a deep thinker, I'm really a thinker, and, like my grandson, he will go hmm, hmm, it's so cute. And so I'm like, hmm, god, why did you give Noah your plans, these plans, these details? And so I looked, and I want us to look, at Genesis 6, 8 and 9.

Speaker 1: 13:05

Genesis 8 says but Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord, okay. So, number one Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. That's why he gave his details, these details, these plans, to Noah. Number two is Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Okay, number three, why? Because it says here and he walked with God. And he walked with God. So Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. And Noah was a righteous man, a blameless among the people of his time. And then Noah walked with God. God, my prayer is for me and for us, all of us is that we do find favor in the eyes of the Lord so that we can get those details, those plans and not just favor in the eyes of the Lord to be righteous and blameless in among the people of our time, my time, lord, our time right now, and then walk with you, god, so that I may be worthy, so that we may be worthy, god, of the details of your plans and your purpose and those plans that were set for us before we were even born or even formed in our mother's wounds. That's the plans I'm talking about, god.

Speaker 1: 14:39

Something that I noticed too and I love it while reading this, was God didn't leave Noah. He didn't just say here's the plans, here you go, and then bye-bye, see ya, no, he was right there with Noah during those planning times, during those work times and how to build that arc. It's because and I know that, because he says Noah walked with God, so God was right there. So, as God gives us the plans and gives us the details of our 2024, god will be there, walking with you every step of the way, and I love that. I love that, that I don't have to do 2024 by myself, you know, without God and without his details. So, friends, he will give us, you and me, the details, like he did Jonah. I mean, I don't know about you, I don't know about you, but I cannot wait for God to give me his details and that I get to, I get to, I get to. I'm excited that I get to bring those to life, you know, in my 2024. So I have a prayer for us, okay, and I do want to give you this prayer and I will tell you how you can get this prayer.

Speaker 1: 16:15

But here's a prayer for 2024.

Speaker 1: 16:18

God, give me the details of your plans, your purpose, those plans that were set before me before I was born, or even in my mother's wounds.

Speaker 1: 16:30

Those plans, god, you know the details. You came, jonah, for the Ark. This is how you are to build it. That's the plans I want, god, those plans, that's the ones I want, that's the ones I need, that's the ones I crave for my 20-20, for God, and help me to follow those plans, god, right down to the very smallest of details, like Noah did. Lay those details out before me and then give me your eyes and give me your visions, to see that blueprint, to see the plan and then walk it out, god, not run from it, because you know, you know, lord, I'm a runner, we're runners, and I get scared and I get afraid. I just get all this anxiety and, lord, I don't want to run from it, lord, but help me to walk it out, step by step, in my life, in the planning of my life, in the podcast, in this podcast, lord, in the coaching that I do, in the writing, in the business, in all things.

Speaker 1: 17:47

God, I want your plans, I want your purpose to prevail, god, I pray that that's what happens. I pray that is. Make that so, lord. Make it so, lord, your plans, your purpose and and God, you know I had to look up prevail and I love this. I love the meaning of prevail and it means prove more powerful than opposing forces, be victorious. That's what I want, god, that's what I want for our 2024. I want it my, my plans, my purposes. No, I want your plans, your purpose, to prevail, lord, and be victorious. Not mine, lord, not mine, but yours.

Speaker 1: 18:45

And apart from God, apart from you, god, I can do nothing. Apart from Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the Trinity, we can do nothing. Help me to remain. Remain in you, god, and remain in your word for 2024, so that I can bear much fruit and make a difference in the kingdom of God in 2024. But, god, help me, help me to do that. Help me to stop and ask you the plans and, god, give me the wisdom you know you, when you lay out the blueprint, when you lay out the details. Give me the wisdom and the discipline, god, to follow through with those plans. God, to make it so for you and your kingdom.

Speaker 1: 19:35

God, I would love to send this prayer to you in for 2024, to you know, put on your whiteboard, or you know you could put sticky notes or posted notes on ever words.

Speaker 1: 19:49

You know refrigerator on your whiteboard or you know whatever, and for you to pray over your 2024. And so I love to send that to you, if you'll just send me an email at info at CrystalLoycom and I will send you that prayer right back. But, friends, I pray that your, you know, your plans will become God's plans. Your purpose, your life, whatever you, your goals, will become God's goals for you, and that when he gives you those details because he will just like Noah he will give you those details and I pray that me and you will have the wisdom and the discipline to walk those out, not run from those. Thank you, friends, and until next time. Hey, don't forget you can sign up for the no More Running email list at info at CrystalLoycom and make sure to like, share and follow. We would love for you to leave a review for the podcast. This helps us reach even more women who might find themselves running as well. Gotta run you.