How God Set This Business Up

   When I started out in this walk of the photography world, I had planned to give it all completely to God. I want say that it was all easy, because it wasn't I had my moments of wanting to give up and all because of small things.I didn't have the proper camera and software and all the things I felt I needed in this business. I had low moments, but I pushed on through it, I had to ask God for forgiveness, because although he was sending me clients, I would feel so ashamed, to even approach them with the little camera I had at the time. I was so caught up in what I didn't have and what others in this business felt like I should have, that I basically forgot that God was working. These were test and I didn't notice it at the time. I even had a job that paid fairly well, when I started out in this business. I wasn't getting much business and so to me that was okay, because I had a little income coming in from my job. Once I left the job I was on, God stepped in and this business started to slowly build up.
   One day I was sitting back  just thinking about things and God revealed somethings to me. He revealed to me how he was carrying me through this walk. The camera I had was given to me, my laptop that I do my editing on was giving to me and the people that contacted me for pictures were coming from God. He was basically saying, that he had my back and that this is the business he'd given to me, and that he wanted to lay it out for me. Sometimes it takes us a minute to catch on to things, but we eventually catch on. I really was seeing what I hadn't seen earlier. God was blessing and leading me, but I was pulling away and I would have completely missed it all, had I not been in tune with God and prayed about this walk. I was so thankful and just amazed at that reflection he gave me to look back on.
  Finally,I made up in my mind that I was gonna trust him completely in this and really give it all to him. I made up in my mind that I was really gonna have the attitude of I already have what I want and need in this business. I focused on Romans 4:17 "I have made you a father of many nations. He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed-the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not". I decided to start praying more about this and speaking against the hands of the enemy. I begun to act like I already had my things I wanted and needed. I treated my camera like it was one of the big ones. I didn't talk about it being small any longer. I still had moments of wanting another camera, but I was determined to wait on God. I also begun to say that if God gave me the first camera and a laptop for this business, then that other camera was coming. I made up in my mind, that all of this expensive stuff in this business, I was not gonna buy it, but instead I said that God would provide. Well, three years in this business I was blessed with a camera of my choice and a camera bag of my choice. I waited and God saw how I was being faithful in this and he blessed me in an unexpected way. I didn't care to have a camera bag, but when God blesses he goes big. This is why I love him like I do and depend on him. So be encouraged and know that if he did it for me, then he will surely do it for you.