Do you remember when you were in school taking a test and the teacher would say, get to a stopping point. That meant to prepare to wrap it up. Go back and check your answers. Complete what you can, if you’re not done yet. Get to a stopping point the test is almost over. It’s almost time to put your pencil down.

I believe that this is what God is saying about some of our situations. Get to a stopping point in that relationship. That testing period is about over. Wrap up your loose ends. Say what you have to say. Prepare your exit plan.

Get to a stopping point on that job. You’ve learned what you needed to learn in that place. It’s time to advance to the next level. Start preparing yourself to begin the next journey.

Get to a stopping point in that city. Take care of your business. Get all of your paperwork together. You’re going to a new place soon.

Get to a stopping point in that way of thinking. You have gone as far as you can go with that frame of thinking. Prepare yourself for the challenge of thinking bigger. In order to be able to thrive in this next season of your life you have to prepare yourself to think differently.

Getting to a stopping point in school was always about preparing yourself to end. Have you been getting any nudges in your gut about something in your life coming to an end? Maybe God is giving you a heads up to get prepared and to get your life in order for what is next to come. Sometimes things hit us all of a sudden and then we are sent into a state of panic reaction because nothing could have prepared us for it. On the other hand, sometimes we get a sense beforehand that just maybe we should be preparing our plan B to become our plan A. Or be preparing a new plan all together. Or a new you all together.

Scriptures on Preparation

Luke 14:28

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.

Proverbs 6:6-8  

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.

1 Peter 1:13 ESV              

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I hope that this blog post has encouraged you to trust God and not to settle for living life the way you always have. I pray that you be refreshed and restored to a new level being as you prepare yourself to step out into the new thing that God has prepared just for you. Get to your stopping point.