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I attended a prayer meeting at church, and the theme for the night was "Reset." It was a very uplifting service and spoke to some of the changes I had been experiencing in life. The series of speakers that night kept saying that God was doing a new thing and to let go of the past. Referencing Isaiah 43:19. Although I heard and received the word that night, I kept feeling the urge to listen to the message again. A couple of weeks passed, and one Sunday morning, I stopped procrastinating and decided to give it another listen and take notes.

The key points I took away were: 1) A reset may happen because policies and rules need to change (maybe a way of doing things). 2) Don't dwell on what has left. 3)During a reset, you must trust God because He is trying to give you something new. He is trying to take you into a new place so that he can bless you. 5)God is taking you back to your first love.  A face-to-face encounter with Him. 6) The reset is the difference between growth and mediocrity. This one got my attention because I had received the same word during my own prayer time. So it was confirmation.

Watching the replay of that service, I knew that this new season I was in was for my good. Although it is a very uncomfortable time, it has brought me closer to God, and I have been seeking him more and more (point number 5). I decided to meditate on these key points throughout the week, especially when I began to question this season and have doubts.  During my week of meditating, God gave me a natural example to help me gain a better understanding. 

My sister called one evening while I was working out, and I quickly texted asking if I could call her back a little later. The message didn't go through. I thought it was just an error. The following day I tried to send a few text messages and noticed that I kept receiving a failure message. I restarted the phone, and my text messages still failed. I called my service provider, and after a couple of transfers, I connected to someone confident that he could help me. He instructed me to enter my settings and guess what option I had to select. The reset button! He said I needed to reset and reconnect to the network.  Not only did I have to choose reset, but I had also to clear the cache. It was then that I had an "aha" moment. The reset, while inconvenient, was necessary to get my phone to work correctly and connected back to the network to receive the proper messages.

I sat there momentarily and then decided to look up the word cache. A cache is a high-speed auxiliary memory for easy accessibility. Just like in our brains, we have memories that are easily accessible. Sometimes those old and familiar thoughts, ways, and habits are so easy to grab hold of because we have programmed them that way; however, they hinder us from getting to the next place. Our mind has to be programmed for the new and filled with new thoughts of where God is trying to take us. That requires being connected to the proper network of God to receive new messages and forgetting about the ones that need to be cleared from the cache of our mind. Is it an easy time? No. It is difficult to let go of the old things and thoughts, but I do believe that God is taking me through a process to do something new in my life that will cause me to grow, and I trust that it will be good!

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