5 Habits of a Woman Who Doesn't Quit Chapter 5

Chapter 5

This Dream is on Fire

Habit Three: She stays open to the movement of God.

The Fire
When you’re a girl who quits everything, procrastination is definitely something you struggle with.
This has been me trying to get back on program.. It’s been two months of me procrastinating..
I keep saying I'm going to start, but as soon as the fire hit.. I stopped trying to put it out!


Sometimes I feel like I start to take ten steps forward only to take fifty back. Can you relate?   92 lbs off and 10 lbs back on.. will it be 45? (“God, please help me to recognize the enemies voice from yours.. For too long I was not listening and it‘s a bit confusing now when the negatives hit my thoughts.. satan comes as an angel of light [so, help me not to believe every spirit thought].. please guard my mind and heart!  I ask this in Jesus Name.. Amen!)

Quitting becomes incredibly tempting when we make really good efforts and they literally seem to go up in smoke. 
..When we accept our assignment of refinement, follow through with our commitments despite how we feel, then we can begin to live out the third habit of the woman who doesn’t quit: She stays open to the movement of God.
Maybe the weight gain [eating more] will restore my hair loss?  Maybe the quick loss was not a healthy loss and maybe my size is not the issue here; but, becoming healthier is the issue.  I know it won’t be the way to receive praises of men [but, God knows His thoughts towards me] and HIS WAY‘S are higher than mans! Nicki said, “there’s a process to uncovering the plans of God. You have some things in mind for your future, but so does God. Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the Lord’s decree will prevail. (Prov. 19: 21)”
Staying open to His movement means we stop trying to determine where our commitments ultimately lead. (This kind of backs up my thoughts above!)

God gives favor for small steps of obedience

I struggle with this next one…
God honors those who keep their word. When you make a vow to God, don’t delay fulfilling it, because He does not delight in fools. Fulfill what you vow. Better that you do not vow than that you vow and not fulfill it. (Eccles. 5: 4– 5)
I struggle with this because I commit to people out of pressure [manipulation, guilt trips, shamed into performing] sometimes it’s my own stinking thinking.. being taught to people please!   I keep going around this same mountain.. I commit only to find myself overwhelmed [in over my head] even sick.. not able to keep my word.  Frankly, I’m full of anxiety and sickness this morning.. I need to start clinging to HIS TRUTH.. That His WAY’S are peaceable and easy to be entreated.
If I had to sum up this third habit in one word it would be surrender.
When the fires come, and they will, quitting will always seem to be the best escape route. But if we take a few more steps, show a little more effort, and put a few more seeds in the ground, maybe, just maybe, we will start to see something beautiful happen as we see in Ruth’s life.


When we stop fighting for a formula and fight for humility and surrender, then we see God move.

Life feels desperate. Then Jesus straightens the path (Prov. 3: 5– 6). You were broken. Then God put you back together (2 Cor. 4: 16– 18).
2Co 4:16  Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.
2Co 4:17  For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!],
2Co 4:18  Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.

To Be Honest
Use the space below to write a “before” and “after” moment of your life. Turn it into a “then” statement. Use the Scriptures in the back of the book or throughout this chapter to help.  BEFORE: was my low moment of shutting down and isolating myself after too much hurt/rejection!  THEN: God saved me! and Praise the Lord.. HE continues to be restoring me!