02/10/2026
If you keep doing something and you don't even know why you are doing it, but whenever you don't do it, you feel deeply unsettled—you become angry with yourself, you regret it, and you start wishing you could turn back the hands of time—pay attention.
Sometimes, it is a sign.
A sign that the hand of God is upon your life.
And not just that the hand of God is upon you, but that there is a necessity laid upon your life to do things according to a pattern that God has ordained.
It may not always be the way you want it.
It may not fit into the path you have drawn for yourself.
It may even require you to abandon plans you thought were perfect for your life.
But there is a way God wants you to walk.
Sometimes, you will look at the way other people are living, and you begin to feel like you should do things the way they are doing them.
You become happy about certain opportunities.
You become excited about certain relationships.
You become comfortable with certain friendships.
And then, suddenly, those things begin to slip out of your hands.
And you begin to ask, “What is wrong with me?”
My dear, perhaps nothing is wrong with you.
It is not necessarily because you are careless.
It is not necessarily because you are unfortunate.
It may be because there is something God is intentionally stopping you from.
There is something God has designed for your life.
And until your desires, your plans, and the programme you have written for your life begin to align with God's design, God may keep turning things around.
He may keep closing certain doors.
He may keep disrupting certain plans.
He may keep removing certain things you thought were going to remain.
Not because He wants to punish you, but because He is bringing your life into alignment with His expectation.
There is God's expectation, and there is man's expectation.
And many times, what we expect for ourselves is not what God expects for us.
That is why alignment is so important.
You cannot insist on your plan and expect to fully experience God's purpose.
There has to come a point where you say:
“Lord, not just what do I want? What do You want?”
“Not just where do I want to go? Where are You leading me?”
“Not just what do I desire? What have You designed for me?”
So if you have already mapped out your life and there are certain things you believe you should be doing, yet something keeps stopping you—don't be too quick to conclude that something is wrong with you.
Sometimes, nothing is wrong with you.
God is intentionally crafting your destiny.
God is intentionally restraining you.
God is intentionally holding you within the boundaries of His purpose.
And sometimes, divine restraint is not punishment.
It is preservation.
So if you are in a season where things keep slipping from your hands, don't immediately interpret it as rejection, misfortune, or failure.
Pay attention.
It may be an invitation to come closer to God.
An invitation to pray more.
An invitation to surrender more.
An invitation to realign your desires with His will.
Don't just pay attention to the signals.
Respond to them.
Stay with God.
Let Him rearrange your life until your desires begin to agree with His design.
Because sometimes, the hand that feels like it is stopping you is the same hand that is preserving you.
You may not understand why He keeps pulling you away from certain things now, but one day, you may look back and realize that the things you called delays were actually God's hands keeping you within His purpose.
May God help us to recognize His hand, surrender to His will, and walk completely in His purpose for our lives, in Jesus' name.
Angela Francis