God of the Lost Causes

“I once was lost but now I’m found, was blind but now I see…” (Amazing Grace)

So throughout November into December, the Lord has been speaking to me a lot. Or at least I’m now listening more intently because He’s doing things that are so obvious even I can’t miss it 😉

A theme that’s come up is losing and finding things, items specifically. So, to be clear, I have always prided myself on the fact that I don’t misplace things or irrevocably lose things. I just don’t. It sounds cocky and it kinda is but I’m just very organized and meticulous and I keep up with my stuff and know where it all is. Nothing gets left behind or dropped in a toilet or screen shattered with this girl. When I was a kid, I would get frustrated with my little sister because she would take things out of my room and I always knew what was missing and would accuse her every time. Sometimes, she wasn’t the culprit but I was so confident in my ability to keep things tidy and in their place that I never thought it could be my doing. Sorry sis 🙂

So, since early November, I have been misplacing or losing things. Most of little outward significance but of significance to me, especially when I can’t find it. Most of the time, I know where I left it and it’s a matter of retrieving it. But, some things I still haven’t found and some took a miracle to find. So, at first I was really frustrated because I thought I was losing it because this just doesn’t happen to me. But, then I tuned into what the Lord was saying and I felt He was showing me that through losing/ misplacing items in the natural, he was revealing how this has a spiritual application to my life. Sometimes, we have to live out something in the natural in order for God to teach us those surpassing spiritual revelations that we all desire.

Examples of items misplaced/ lost or something to that effect:

Purse: left outside, got rained on but still intact, and found 2 weeks later

Contact solution: forgot to bring it on a trip to TX and 7/11 worker helped me find the tiniest bottle so my eyes wouldn’t have to keep burning from putting the contacts in water

Wallet: lost it in a clear bag (How? You ask. I don’t EVEN know) at State Farm Arena for Maverick City concert. Kindest lady at the checkout gave me a bottled water for free b/c I was panicking when I realized I didn’t have my wallet and I felt so loved because I was getting over the flu and had no voice and had a cough and really needed that water. And I got the chance to pray over her since she lost her mom/brother and it was heavy on her spirit. Found the wallet later that night at Waffle House with license/ cards intact but sans $60 (believing someone needed that cash more than me 🙂

Work sweatshirt: So, I was doing an odd shift where I went to 2 different clinic locations for my urgent care job and I realized I left my gray work sweatshirt at the 1st location but by the time, I would’ve gotten off, the clinic would’ve been closed and I wasn’t scheduled to work at that particular clinic again for at least 2 months so I didn’t want to have to go on my day off to downtown Atlanta just to retrieve my $10 Walmart sweatshirt. It wasn’t expensive but it was sentimental, ya know?

So, I’m relaying my sad tale (insert tears haha) to my sweet co-worker and she takes it upon herself to arrange for the safe return of my sweatshirt that VERY evening!
She has her friend who is driving by the other clinic go and retrieve the sweatshirt before they close and then come 30+ minutes to our current location to give it to me and to drive her home from work. I am literally dumbfounded when she tells me what the plan is.
I don’t understand why she would do all that for me.
I never even got to meet her friend as she was outside in the car and I asked my co-worker if I could buy her and her friend dinner/ Venmo them/ etc and she flat out REFUSED to accept any payment and essentially told me to just receive. I felt so loved it was unreal. All over a $10 sweatshirt I was tempted to replace in an instant on Amazon.


My most favorite RAINa earrings: They are clouds with Raindrops coming out that I found randomly 1 year ago and HAD to get b/c of course my name is “RAIN with an A” (how I say it when people need to know how to spell it) and I lost them and it made me so sad and then of course, it proceeded to rain for so many days in a row that I thought it was spring and I used to wear my Rain earrings when it rained but I couldn’t at all

Then I come home for Christmas and my sister sends me Etsy links to various rain drop earrings and tells me she already tried to find the earrings in the same shop I purchased them in last year at Christmas in my hometown but they didn’t have them so now I’m upgraded to fancier iridescent rain drop earrings that she bought for me AND I’m still believing I’ll find the earring at some point #doubleportionamirighttt #upgradesintheKingdom #abundancenotpovertymindset

So, what has the Lord been teaching me in all this??


I take a lot of pride in being meticulous and on top of life and having everything just so where it’s supposed to be and have judged others who seem to always be losing things and just can’t get their ish together. So, this has really humbled me and made me realize it’s okay to not have everything together all the time and that it’s okay to ask others to help. I want to do everything myself because I’m a strong independent woman (insert Destiny’s Child song “Independent Woman”) and I don’t want to rely on anyone, even the Lord sometimes. I’ve had to swallow my pride and learn to receive from others from the Lord. And kill the lie of perfectionism that I’m somehow LESS THAN if I don’t have everything together every moment of every day.

My God is the God of REDEMPTION and RESTORATION and RECONCILIATION. He is PROVIDER and He loves to UPGRADE His children and always has abundantly MORE than we can ask or imagine in store for us (Ephesians 3:20-21).
Nothing is too far gone for the Lord to redeem/ restore. I mean, look at Jesus. He comes to save the world and His own Jewish people reject and crucify Him and His disciples He poured into and loved on for 3 years abandon Him. It looks like the enemy won BUT ALAS, He descended into hell, defeated sin/ death/ satan and took back the keys to the Kingdom for His sons and daughters to employ on earth to make it look like heaven and rose again on the third day and now reigns and rules eternally. Talk about a FLIPPED SCRIPT.

Joel 2:25-27
I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten—
the great locust and the young locust,
the other locusts and the locust swarm—
my great army that I sent among you.

You will have plenty to eat, until you are full,
and you will praise the name of the Lord your God,
who has worked wonders for you;
never again will my people be shamed.

Then you will know that I am in Israel,
that I am the Lord your God,
and that there is no other;
never again will my people be shamed.

Isaiah 61:7
​​Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours.

Acts 3:18-21
But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord; and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you, whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.

1 Peter 5:10
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

So, my friends:

What are the things you’ve given up as lost?

The Promises you don’t really think God will come through on?

The miracles you long for but honestly have lost hope that will actually manifest this side of heaven?

The secret desires you hardly let yourself whisper even in your thought life because you’re so afraid that you’ll be disappointed yet again and why bother believing it could actually happen when you’re just setting yourself up for failure?

The situations/ relationships/ etc that you don’t even ask for prayer for anymore to others or to God because you don’t even think it could change so it doesn’t cross your mind to cry out to the Lord for the outcome you long for?

The dreams you’ve buried that you’ve forgotten about that God wants to resurrect from the ashes?

The relationships that require a divine reconciliation that only God could orchestrate?

My challenge for you as we head into a New Year full of possibility and potential for miracles/ healings/promises fulfilled/ harvest reaped/testimonies galore/ And Suddenlies piling up (you get my drift)…

Ask yourself and consult with the Lord on what you’ve given up hope for as something lost/ broken/impossible that you need your hope restored for and you need faith to believe again that God really can do it and not only that, that He WANTS to do it.

That He has GOOD for you and He’s asking you to PARTNER with Him in Faith and step out and R-I-S-K a little so that you can actually see these things you’ve longed for come to pass.

Because our God is the GOD OF THE LOST CAUSES. Nothing is too hard for him.

Jeremiah 32:17
Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

And He says if we Ask, we SHALL receive.

Matthew 7:7-8
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

So let’s be BOLD to approach the throne of grace (Hebrews 4:16) and petition the Lord for these lost causes that are really miracles and testimonies waiting to happen. For our God is faithful and He will surely do it!

Invite your friends into it to pray on your behalf and see what God will do!

And then share the testimonies far and wide for we know that:

We overcome the enemy by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB and the WORD OF OUR TESTIMONY.

Revelations 12:11
And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.