[I wrote this blog on 02/21/25. Today I was asking the Lord what do you want to share with your people and the Holy Spirit was saying “Do Not Go Back, There’s A Time I Will Bring You Back.” Immediately, I knew I had to release this blog that was already written, but today is the day it will be shared.]
Do you ever feel like you’re going around in a circle? Do you ever feel like you have found yourself in similar situations year after year?
Today, I feel led to share about full circle moments. What is a full circle moment? It is a series of events that lead back to the original starting point. It can also refer to gaining clarity about the past. In other words, they are moments that come back around in your life.
I want to distinguish that I am not talking about operating in a cycle. Operating in a cycle is doing the same thing over and over again in a situation. A full circle moment, I believe, is when God places you in situations to show completion (of some sort.)
What do I mean by this? Let’s look in the bible.
The Holy Spirit reminded me of a few instances we can reference in the bible that are considered full circle moments.
The first one being Jesus being raised in Nazareth. When people often referred to Him, they would say, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus was raised in the city of Nazareth being raised in a carpenter household. Fast forward, when it was time to start His ministry at the age of 30, Jesus returned to Nazareth with His disciples, performing miracles, signs, and wonders, but what happened? The people of Nazareth did not accept Him.
How is this a full circle moment?
Well, Jesus started off in Nazareth. That was His home! However, when it was time to start His ministry and do what He was called to do, when He returned to His home at a mature age, the people did not accept nor receive Him. As a result, they didn’t reap the blessing that came from receiving Jesus. What did Jesus do? He dusted His feet and kept it pushing to the next city.
You might be thinking – well that’s a negative full circle moment?
Yes, but at the same time, we have to learn to discern the moment. Sometimes we are placed in moments that come full circle and we have a choice to think of it negatively or positively. They might not have accepted Jesus at home, but when He went off to go preach to Gentiles (people considered non-Israelites), they received Him, and the people who were deemed as unreached, were preached the Good News. If Jesus succumbed to a carnal emotion and allowed the rejection of people from His home to affect Him, the Good News would not have been shared to the surrounding areas.
A rejection is purely a redirection to somewhere or something else. Don’t despise the full circle moment. If God brings you back, it can mean two things, a work is complete in you or a work is about to begin in you.
I just went through a full circle moment of mine where I was offered an opportunity. Years ago, I would have killed for an opportunity at this job, but I never got it. Four years later, the opportunity found itself to me, and I declined it. Why? I understood my season and I understood the moment. It was so full circle for me because my 19 year old self wanted that, but my 23 year old self knows where I should be going. If I took the opportunity now, I know I would not be doing what God wants me to be doing. I rejected the opportunity, but I trusted the Lord was going to lead me somewhere else.
And if you’re reading this blog, God led me back here. I never thought I would revive this blog again, but here I am blogging my life away talking about Jesus. Full. Circle. Moment.
Another instance God reminded me of, was in the book of Joshua where the walls of Jericho fell. What does this have to do with full circle moments?
The answer is some of us may be going around in circles, thinking what you are doing is meaningless activity, but let me remind you that everything under the sun is used for God’s Glory and story in your life.
I believe we all have a moment where we get sucked into thinking what we are doing is pointless – although we may not understand now, but soon later we will.
I didn’t comprehend why I started a blog when I was 19 years old, but it seemed like the right thing to do at that time. It soon ended, but then I soon found myself writing again a few years after. I published a devotional when I turned 21. From the ages of 22 – 23, I have been a writer and journalist for a platform called Polynesian Music Network +.
I didn’t realize what God was doing. I felt like the Israelites walking around the walls of Jericho. My promise was on the other side of the wall, but I was going around in a circle doing what I was ordered to do by God, but I didn’t know what I was working towards.
And my full circle moment came when I got to my breaking point of “God what am I doing?” I felt like something was brewing inside of me, but I didn’t know what it was. I felt like I was supposed to be doing something different, but I didn’t know what it was.
Soon after, the Holy Spirit reminded me of my old blog and this sense of peace came over me, knowing it was an instruction for me to restart my blog and share the Gospel. Something clicked inside of my heart, acknowledging the revival of my blog.
This was a full circle moment in my life, because I didn’t think God was going to bring this back into my life. When I deactivated my blog a few years ago, I had no intention of bringing it back. I thought it was a moment that passed and it wasn’t in my plan anymore. But now, after 3 years of maturing my writing, being refined and pruned in my faith in Jesus, God brings the blog back into my life as a full circle moment.
I am writing this because in the two instances I shared, we have to discern the moment. Sometimes full circle moments come back around to bring either closure or completion of the work of God. The first instance in my testimony was closure. I received closure knowing an opportunity that was brought back up was a chapter closed and I couldn’t revisit it. The second testimony, God completed the work in me and gave me assurance that what I have been doing the past few years did not go to waste and it led me to revive/restart something I thought was dead.
02.21.2025