His Story

What God began through surrender became something I was first called to walk—before ever being called to share.

Start Realizing was not something I set out to build. It was something God led me into during a season of deep surrender, when I simply offered my life to Him and asked that it be used for His purposes rather than my own.

And God faithfully poured through me.

At the time, I did not fully understand what He was forming. I only knew I was being asked to obey.

When that season came to a close, I brought a simple question before the Lord:

"What's next?"

His response was clear:

"Work it."

God did not call me to immediately teach what had been poured out, nor to quickly place it into the hands of others. Instead, He called me to walk through the very process myself — to experience it personally before ever inviting anyone else into it.

So I did.

As I worked through what would become the Created on Purpose framework, God led me gently backward through my life. With new eyes, I began to recognize what had always been true:

He had been present in every season.

What once felt disconnected began to reveal intention.
What once seemed misdirected was not wasted.

I started to see that the gifts placed within me had been there long before I understood them — sometimes operating outside of obedience, sometimes misunderstood — yet never outside the reach of God's redemptive hand.

Through surrender, those gifts were not erased. They were redeemed and realigned, finally submitted to serve the Lord as they were always intended.

In that journey, I came to understand something that now anchors my faith:

Purpose is not something we invent. It is something we awaken to.

The greatest transformation did not come from creating the material.

It came from doing the work.

God revealed patterns I had never clearly seen before — moments of His faithfulness, protection, correction, and quiet guidance woven throughout my story. Even the past was not something to bury, but something God, in His mercy, could redeem.

Because God has been present our entire lives.
Our testimony is often the moment we begin to realize it.

When I was younger, someone in my life who walked closely with the Lord shared something with me that I did not fully understand at the time. She believed God was revealing that one day I would speak His name to groups of people.

I did not know what to do with those words then, and for many years I did not live in the kind of surrender that would have made sense of them.

There were seasons when I believed in God, yet had not fully yielded my life to Him. I could participate in good things, even faithful things, while still holding direction in my own hands.

But God is patient in His formation.

Looking back now, I do not see that moment as a declaration of arrival — only as a quiet glimpse of what God, in His timing, might unfold through obedience. My purpose had never changed: it was always to serve the Lord. Calling would come later, revealed not through ambition, but through surrender.

Scripture makes clear that assignments change, but purpose does not. Titles shift. Seasons close. Roles evolve. Yet the foundation remains the same:

Our purpose is to serve the Lord.

Serving Him is not meant to be occasional — it is daily. Jesus taught us to pray for daily bread, reminding us that surrender is not a single decision but an ongoing posture of trust.

I began to see with greater clarity that doing good things is not the same as living a surrendered life. True peace is found not in directing our path, but in yielding it.

Calling, I have learned, is rarely announced. More often, it is revealed slowly through faithful obedience.

Before I was ever called to guide others through this process, I was first asked to walk it quietly with Him. And in that walking, God impressed something deeply upon my heart:

Faithfulness matters far more than visibility.

After completing that journey, it became clear that what God had revealed was never meant to remain with me alone.

Testimony is meant to be shared — not to draw attention to a person, but to awaken others to the presence of God already at work within their own story.

This is why I now guide churches through the Created on Purpose experience — not as someone who has arrived, but as someone who was first led to walk it.

It is not about adding another program.

It is about creating space for believers to recognize God's faithfulness across their lives, to see how He has formed them, and to respond in daily obedience.

My testimony is not meant to replace Scripture. It is meant to point back to it — to the God who authors every redeemed life.

And if the Lord should lead your church in this direction, it would be an honor to walk alongside your congregation under your leadership and discernment, trusting Him to reveal what He has already been faithfully writing.