Chiiiile, Please!

To my gentle healers,

It has come to this writer’s attention that a great many of you are walking around fully loaded — gifted, called, anointed, equipped — and sound asleep at the wheel of your own purpose. Yes, you. The one with the vision in the notes app since 2019. The one who prophesies over everybody else’s business but hasn’t opened your own. This author finds it borderline criminal, honestly. All that inside of you, and you’re using it as a pillow.

So let’s talk about it.

You Are Not Resting. You Are Sleeping On It.

Let’s get the language right, because words matter. Rest is holy. Rest is necessary. God rested on the seventh day and called it good. But what you’re doing? That’s not rest. That’s not a season. That’s not “waiting on God’s timing” like you keep telling everybody at Bible study. That’s sleep. Deep, comfortable, avoid-the-alarm-clock sleep on something He specifically placed in you to be used, not stored.

There’s a difference between resting in your purpose and resting on it. One recharges you for the work. The other is just an excuse with a spiritual filter over it.

What’s Sleeping Looks Like From the Outside

Sleeping on your purpose doesn’t always look like laziness. Sometimes it looks like busy. Real busy. Overcommitted-to-everybody-else’s-vision busy. It looks like being the most reliable person at everybody’s function except your own. It looks like starting the notebook, the course, the LLC paperwork, and letting it sit at 60% done for three years while you call it “still working on it.”

It looks like scrolling past somebody living out the exact thing you were called to do, hitting the heart button, and closing the app feeling some kind of way you can’t quite name. That feeling? That’s not jealousy. That’s recognition. That’s your spirit elbowing you awake, saying that was supposed to be you too.

Let’s Be Real About Why You’re Still Asleep

I’m not going to pat your head about this one. Here’s the actual list, and pick the one that’s yours:

You’re scared it won’t work, so you never officially start — that way it can’t officially fail. You’re scared it WILL work, and success brings a level of visibility and responsibility you’re not ready to hold. You’ve confused the size of the gift with the size of the fear, so the bigger the calling, the longer you’ve been sleeping on it. Or somebody — a parent, a church, an ex, your own inner critic — told you a long time ago that what’s in you wasn’t realistic, holy, or worth pursuing, and you believed them over God.

None of these are disqualifying. All of them are common. But none of them are a good enough reason to keep hitting snooze on something eternal.

Purpose Doesn’t Wait Forever, and Neither Does the World That Needs It

Here’s the part that should sit heavy: somebody out there needs the exact thing God put in you, and they are currently going without it because you’re asleep. The book unwritten. The business unopened. The ministry unstarted. The healing you could have offered somebody, still locked up in you because you decided “not yet” one too many times.

Purpose isn’t just personal. It’s assigned. Somebody’s breakthrough is tied to your obedience. That should wake you up faster than any alarm clock.

Here’s How You Actually Wake Up — Implementation, Not Just Inspiration

Feeling convicted is not the same as being awake. Here’s the actual process to get up and stay up.

Step one: Name the thing plainly, out loud or on paper. Stop being vague about your calling. “I want to do something meaningful” is a nap disguised as a dream. Write the actual thing: the book title, the business name, the ministry, the specific service. Vague purpose stays sleeping because you can’t build toward fog.

Step two: Identify which excuse is actually running the show. Go back to the real list above — fear of failure, fear of success, borrowed doubt, comparison paralysis — and be honest about which one has been doing the talking. You cannot fight an enemy you won’t name.

Step three: Take one action this week that has nothing to do with feeling ready. Feeling ready is not a prerequisite God ever promised you. Register the name. Write the first page. Send the DM. Book the consultation. Purpose responds to motion, not mood.

Step four: Get one accountability voice who will check on the actual thing, not just your feelings about the thing.Somebody who will ask “did you do it” and not accept “I’ve been praying about it” as a final answer for the fifth month in a row.

Step five: Set a real deadline and treat it like an appointment with God, because it is one. Not “someday.” A date. Purpose delayed indefinitely is purpose deferred permanently, and deep down, you already know that.

Sit In It

What has God put in you that you’ve been calling “not yet” for years now? Who is going without the very thing you were equipped to give them? And what would it actually cost you — really — to wake all the way up and start?

You were not gifted for storage. Get up.

— Coach Chanel G.