The Power of Being Seen by God - #40
When we feel we literally cannot go on another day, being seen by God helps us find a way.
God intends for you to be DEEPLY seen and cherished.
He is able to love at levels that are deeper than anything we can comprehend.
He has been teaching me this deeper than I EVER thought I could comprehend and now my heart is about to explode. 💣
Instead of exploding I am going to write this all out and in a few years this will likely have been read by millions of people.
Call it a hunch.
Call me crazy.
I’m going to just let my vision keep climbing higher.
Where there is no vision the people perish (Proverbs 29:18) and where there is vision the people live!
I am definitely living right now, and I’ve never felt so much clarity and vision EVER.
I have learned that lowering my vision is a GIANT mistake.
My vision has only grown every single day since I decided to go full-time back in February.
My entire life has changed in just the last two weeks.
God’s blessings are POURING on me right now and at the perfect time.
I’ve had PLENTY of “Empty Net” days.
I know that the tides are beginning to turn in my favor.
It’s just a matter of time.
There’s no telling what could happen in a few years if I keep trusting God.
God’s plan is BIGGER than any of us can ever hope for and imagine.
I have never felt SO SEEN by Him and that means I am able to help others feel more seen by Him as well. It’s a precious gift. I am grateful for His infinite ability to see us.
Knowing that we are seen by God is a great comfort and strength.
It’s wonderful when we let Him help us be seen as we were meant to be seen.
Yep, we’re going DEEP today. 🤿
Here’s what we’re talking about:
The Greatest Beauty Lives in the Heart
Being Seen is Being Healed
Cherish Divine Interruptions
Two things before we dive in:
I may not hit 1k YouTube subscribers in time. I had a goal to hit 1,000 by the 30th. The deal I made with my friend was that if I don’t hit the goal in time then I have to try posting on Tik-Tok again (which I really don’t want to do). Tik-Tok is extremely loud and with my ADHD it makes me super susceptible to its distractions. If this is what happens though I will seek to take it in stride.
Would I really rather NOT have to do that? Absolutely.
I’d really rather not EVER have to install Tik-Tok ever again.
It’s an extremely potent tool and can be used for basically anything.
There is insane potential to do good or evil with it (just like with any potent tool).
The time investment for me just feels so, so not worth it for the potential benefits.
I tried building an audience with it in its early days and the results were quite unsatisfactory. I got some positive comments but most of it really wasn’t great.
That was just my experience.
I haven’t downloaded it since then.
It’s far too stimulating for my brain and I’d really rather not.
But I’m running out of time.
I have 5 days to get 428 more subscribers on YouTube.
I’ll be sharing more on my adventures in Utah and such and I feel this will be very BIG in due time. These are just the early days.
I do not have a camera person today but I believe I will have a team in due time.
This is a vital part of the empire and I’m grateful for these early days of building it up.
It’s also helping me develop thicker skin.
I’ve been getting more negativity on videos than I ever had from any of my social media posts. It’s humbling.
I’m also getting comments like this one.
I’m having a good time with it for sure.
This video with me and the backwards hat was a real hoot. 😂
God is good.
It’s only going to get better from here.
So if you watch YouTube and are able to subscribe that’d be greatly appreciated. 😅
I’m grateful for those of you who have already subscribed.
Next Tuesday is going to be completely different in all aspects of my life than this Tuesday.
I’ll be very close to Utah (if not in Utah).
I’ll also know if I hit 1k in time (since the 30th is next Monday).
We’ll just see what happens.
I’m going to make videos along the trip to Utah and it’ll be a good time. Hitting 1k in time would be awesome. 🎉
At the very least though I am impressed that it’s been growing as it has been, and I’m thankful for that.
And finally…
This happened last Tuesday. The YIELD Today with Dallin Candland Podcast has never had this many downloads in one day. I don’t know where this came from but it is encouraging.
I’ve been close to quitting it multiple times but for now this for me feels like a sign that I need to trust the process and keep going. I have no idea what the future holds with it. Any support of any kind with this would be appreciated too. I’m publishing episodes every day besides Sunday now. Thanks a million. ❤️
I could also definitely use your prayers haha as I am traveling to Utah this week. 😂
Okay yep that’s more than enough announcements.
Let’s begin.
1. The Greatest Beauty Lives in the Heart
The tabloids, press, Hollywood, etc. have it ALL wrong.
Beauty has nothing to do with anything that is said or shown on a screen.
It has nothing to do with how much money you make or the car you drive.
It comes down to what is treasured, felt, and shown by your daily behaviors.
It’s about the lives you touch more than the glitz and glamor.
It’s about your heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said it this way,
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
In The Sermon on The Mount Jesus said it this way in Matthew 6:21 -
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
The heart is a sacred place. As Proverbs 4:23 says out of it flows basically all of life.
When we can do something to lift up someone’s’ heart - we’ve done a great thing.
To intentionally break someone’s heart, hurt a heart, etc. is a great sadness.
Surely God is aware of every single tear that one of His precious children cries.
Yet in all of this brokenness we are always completely seen by God.
We are able to be lifted by Him to new heights that we couldn’t have ever imagined.
As the song, “You’re Not Alone” shares,
🎵“You are loved in ways that can’t be shown. Your needs are known; you’re not alone. And when you cry, you’re just letting go of heartache deep inside. So tomorrow they’ll be sunshine in the sky, for you and me, and love close by - just wait and see you’re not alone…”🎵
That’s the truth.
God is able to bring you to a much, much better place.
He will take good care of you and your heart.
God’s ways are higher than our ways. (Isaiah 55:8-9)
Being seen physically is nowhere near as powerful as being seen spiritually, emotionally, and mentally.
As the Jesuit priest and visionary Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said,
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
What does this mean?
What does this have to do with being seen?
Let’s look briefly at 1 Samuel 16:7 in the Old Testament and we’ll find one answer,
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
The Lord was looking on the heart.
The Lord was looking on the heart the entire time.
David’s older brother, Eliab wasn’t the Lord’s choice for being the next king of Israel.
It wasn’t his brothers, Abinadab, Shimea, Nethanel, Raddai, or Ozem either.
The Lord made that clear to his prophet at the time, Samuel.
The next few verses all say the same thing, just substitute the name of the brother. Here’s the verse for Abinadab (1 Samuel 16:8),
Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
It doesn’t matter if they were all extremely yoked and with six-pack abs.
They could have all been the most solid of male specimens to ever exist.
It wouldn’t change anything.
The Lord sees differently.
When it comes to championships, empires, and glorious adventures and spectacles of every kind - they are born, nourished, savored, built, and treasured in the heart.
God does not call the qualified - He qualifies the called.
The story of Joseph of Egypt is another example.
In his early years he had dreams that he would play a pivotal role in helping his family.
His older brothers thought he was nuts and wanted to kill him.
One of the brothers spoke up and they decided to sell him into slavery instead.
I’m sure Joseph felt that his life was basically over at that point.
He was sold into slavery.
The Lord looked out for him though.
The Lord knew his heart.
Genesis 39:3 explains how Joseph was looked after and prospered, even in a very humbling situation,
And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Later when Joseph got sentenced to prison for a crime he didn’t commit, the Lord was with him there too.
Genesis 39:21 makes this clear,
But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Did you catch that?
The “SIGHT” of the keeper of the prison was heightened.
He was able to see Joseph in a better light, and treated him better.
It’s probably not too great a stretch of the imagination to say that the keeper of the prison was more able to see Joseph’s mighty heart.
This led to new opportunities for Joseph and eventually he was made second in command in the kingdom.
Joseph was blessed with a wife, kids, and more blessings than he could count.
He was faithful to the Lord, and surely the Lord was faithful to him.
Proverbs 3:5-6 talks about trusting in the Lord with ALL of our hearts - I recommend that strategy. God can do a LOT more good with that than we can.
Here’s another quote on this that I really enjoy.
“One sees only clearly with the heart, anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” - The Little Prince
Invisible.
You literally cannot see it physically.
The real beauty, the real essential things, are everything else that we’ve been talking about - the light they bring, clarity of mind, how they treat others, etc.
These are things that only become more beautiful with time.
It happened to me more than once in college where I was physically attracted to a girl but in talking with her I found that there was little if anything we had in common.
To try and spend more time with her, chase her, etc. would be deceiving myself.
I had times where I would get a girl’s number and then they disappeared off of the face of Planet Earth (I never saw them again and they didn’t return my texts). 🤣
There’ve also been a few times where a girl was trying to chase me and God was very clear in telling me to just leave her be and not entertain such things. 😅
Is it flattering? Absolutely! Especially when you aren’t used to it - it’s a powerful thing.
I’ve learned though that having my peace is way more valuable than flattery.
God really is always right. Always. In everything.
I’ve learned to let go and let Him - that’s a super highway to feeling truly seen.
When you do that you let go of everything in your path and cherish the moment.
Anything essential is invisible to the eyes, and if I am looking only with my eyes… yeah that’s not a good sign at all. There’s a lot more to life than physical looks.
In addition to this, if you are so focused on physical looks you may miss literally everything that is wonderful about that person.
If that becomes the model that represents your relationship it’s probably not going to go super well or last very long.
At the end of the day we all need to be seen, heard, and talked to.
We all have needs that go far deeper than anything physical.
God is able to heal what cannot be seen.
A part of this is accomplished when we seek to see others like Jesus does.
When we truly want to lift and encourage someone that elevates their story and ours.
Physical-attractiveness is important, don’t get me wrong.
The real beauty in all of us though lies in the soul.
Finding a friend or someone that celebrates the beauty in your soul is a treasure.
Finding a friend or someone that celebrates the visions in your heart is a treasure.
These are the kinds of friendships and relationships that are more likely to thrive.
I’ll tell you that I’ve spent the majority of my life feeling not seen.
I’ve spent a lot of time feeling borderline invisible.
There’s been plenty of times where I was “Just Dallin” and I was put into a box.
That box was oftentimes suffocating, full of lies, and quite uncomfortable.
I am free of it now though.
I really don’t care what people think of me anymore.
I’ve lost plenty of joyful moments because I was trying to appease others.
All I care about now is what God thinks of me, and that’s literally it.
He’s the Mastermind.
He’s been putting SO MANY people recently that ACTUALLY see me and it’s the most wonderful thing EVER. It makes me want to SHOUT from the housetops.
It’s a blessing to have the approval of others, but yep - I just let go and let God.
His love, approval, and focus on us never dims or dies down with time or changes.
This quote from C.S. Louis says it well,
“God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us… You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.”
My feeling not seen and noticed has a wonderful blessing attached to it though.
I know what it all feels like.
Is this why I am so intent on talking to the people that may feel in the background?
Surely it is part of it.
I know what it feels like to feel invisible.
I know what it feels like to feel seen.
So, I try to listen to God’s voice and be an instrument to help people feel seen, applauded, and cherished.
After all,
2. Being Seen is Being Healed
I feel SO very tired and exhausted.
Even just now I laid down on the garage floor (as comfortable as it sounds) and napped for like half an hour.
I’ve NEVER ever felt I needed to do so much and had so very little time to do it.
I have no idea of how this is all going to come together, but I know somehow it will.
I was moving to Utah on Thursday, but we moved it to Friday for my mom’s birthday (on Thursday).
I was getting a ride with a family (that was leaving on Thursday) but plans change.
God is making His moves and I just have to trust them.
He is in control as I talked about in a previous YIELD Deeply newsletter.
I cannot afford to force anything.
Not a single thing.
I must feel everything and let myself feel EVERY single mercy He is sending.
No matter how uncomfortable it may feel or seem in the moment.
I have NEVER felt more vulnerable and seen in my life.
I know God is healing me at hyperspeed and providing for my every need.
I have ran away from His love before and I do not recommend doing that. 😅
It makes life much, much, much more difficult to bear and it’s very unnecessary.
I am great at following promptings to lift up other people and be there for them.
When it comes to following them for myself I can be really lacking.
I know that part of it comes down to feelings of not being seen, good enough, etc.
I have stories from childhood, teenagehood, etc. where someone cast me as one of the most foolish, least interesting, and icky things to ever walk on planet Earth.
I say the word “thing” because that’s the best way I could put it - I didn’t feel I was human to them. I was an obstacle. I was the fiddle in the back of the store that needed to be thrown away years ago. I was the sandwich that never got served and got moldy…
Then it was thrown away without a second thought.
“Dallin? Absolutely not. Yuck!” 🤣
I’ve had people run away from me before - figuratively and literally. 😂
Now I am having people run to me like I’ve never had before - figuratively and literally.
They want to talk to me more.
They want to hear my ideas.
They want to give me hugs.
It’s the most beautiful thing ever and the most mind-blowing thing ever.
And it just keeps happening.
It’s happening everywhere I go.
Everywhere.
John 14:18 comes to mind as a way to explain it:
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
This is a understatement to say the least.
The reality with this is that when God needs to sprint to you - He does.
He comes SPRINTING, with His arms FULL of love and mercies - with your name written all over them. He is EXTREMELY personal like that - far beyond what any algorithm or anything like that could ever hope to achieve. He’s INFINITELY more.
Remembering this is powerful when we are tempted to think anything different.
Isaiah 55:8-9 says it well,
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
These crazy mercies and blessings are all coming to me at the exact perfect time - wherever I go.
Time stops so I am able to reach out to these precious people.
Somehow God is making a way and I don’t have any words for it.
I have to completely let go of how I see every situation and trust how He sees it.
He knows who is ready to break down into tears and needs to talk to someone.
He is putting me in so many peoples’ stories, right before I leave home and I am just trusting He has mine all figured out.
I’ve also had people look at me like I was the absolute weirdest person ever and I’m learning more and more to just laugh about those things. 😆
Sometimes the people with which I sense I’ll have an amazing conversation with it is instantly flat and goes nowhere.
On the same vein I am having these amazing conversations with people that happen out of nowhere and I have no words to explain it except it’s divine and on time.
It all feels so important and beyond my understanding.
For now I just have to trust - as these are still the early days.
God is raising this empire up from the dust towards its glorious future, one day at a time.
He is doing the same for me and my life.
I know looking back that this will all make WAY more sense.
It’s possible that one of the several Amazon drivers I’ve met in the last few months (that is now in the YIELD Army) will play a pivotal role later in my career.
I do not know.
God perfectly knows all of these things.
All I know is I felt a strong feeling of compassion to talk with them and now they are on the email list.
Will I care about them still until the day I die?
Of course.
The moment was too sweet for words and my soul is forever different after each conversation.
I was seen.
They were seen.
The world was made a slightly better place just in that moment.
It’s a lot though.
It really is a LOT.
My heart can barely take it anymore.
It’s never ever felt this much love ever and it is ready to explode.
Deep, deep down part of me wants to run away and escape all of this.
I talked a bit about my photographic memory last week, and it’s a double-edged sword for sure.
Yet I know that God is taking care of all these things and He is raising up me and my story simultaneously to heights I could have NEVER imagined.
This video from Danny Miranda talks about how being seen=growth - it’s really neat.
I also was recently a guest on the “Who God Says” podcast.
It was a very uplifting, joyful, encouraging experience.
Tyshaundra is someone that is able to see me.
She sees some of what I am eager to do for God’s glory and what I will sacrifice for Him - which is anything.
We talked about my journey thus far and how the Lord has been prospering and taking care of me - since as long as I can remember.
Definitely worth a watch.
In case you are wondering, THIS is how you help someone see and be seen.
Talking with Tyshaundra was a GIANT mercy from God and my vision was surely lifted and expanded - she just has that effect on people. It’s a gift for sure.
Yep.
I am being seen.
I am being healed.
It’s all coming together.
God is good.
I am learning to let go and just
3. Cherish Divine Interruptions
God keeps reminding me that this is going to ALL work out.
He’s helping me to cherish these moments - and it’s definitely eating up a lot of my time left here.
I don’t know how this is going to work out - I just know that it will.
I also know that on the other side of this week is a TON of peace, abundance, and rest.
Even still, I cannot force anything, and I talk to Him about all of these things.
I have tried to work on things (finishing up my book for example) but things keep happening.
Interruptions.
Going and talking with other people.
I have no words for it.
I thought I had more time left at home.
I really thought I did.
The book is literally at the finish line and I had to tell two people last week that it wasn’t available on Amazon (but it will be in time).
I want to just send the silly thing out but I have a few parts that I want to sound just a little bit better.
God has told me very clearly that it’s all okay and I can just send it and it’ll work out.
I am tired.
I just wish I could have some alone time.
I’ve NEVER felt so completely full of love and energy.
It’s all changing.
Everything.
Every day.
There are too many miracles for me to count.
I count 10 from yesterday and that’s just the ones I had space to write about.
The blessings are POURING on me and sometimes I just want to speed this along.
But then I would miss out on all of the miracles.
I would miss out on everything.
I met someone who is giving me a car.
I am driving myself out to Utah.
I am not getting a ride there like I thought I was.
The Lord is bringing me there joyfully as I talked about in this newsletter (isn’t it AMAZING how God works!?)
My brother James and I are going together and yep it’s going to be an adventure!
I feel so completely speechless and I really don’t know what to do next honestly.
Yet I know that He has this ALL taken care of.
He knows EXACTLY how I feel in this moment - every single thing.
I feel I am fighting the final boss that is guarding the door to my next chapter of life.
I’ve never felt so vulnerable and needing God’s help in literally everything.
I am comforted in the fact though that
This is it.
I have reached it.
I am sure I will have deeper feelings of complete exhaustion, wound-up-ness and just completely so beyond any kind of feelings of expression in another moment during this beautiful roller coaster of my life while I’m still breathing.
But as for this season, and this moment - this is it.
I just need to feel and appreciate this and love everything.
I need to experience these emotions and feel all the highs and lows of them for the sake of my family, future family, future friends and associates, and for my mission on Earth.
It’s vital.
God has big plans for all my big feelings.
When I turn to Him with all of them He brings me to new ceilings.
My brain is beyond all its normal feelings and boop-bops and God is showing up more than He ever has - ever.
It’s beyond me and I could literally go on for pages and pages talking about how good He’s been and the crazy experiences I’ve been having.
Yet He has other things prepared for me.
This is my final hurrah of living in North Carolina.
He’s helped me to put a nice bow on things.
Of course, I make no promises of where I plan to live in the future.
I plan to go where He tells me to go and that about sums it up.
My life is His - it was never mine.
I am an instrument in His hands - to lift, write, and encourage - until the day I die.
As of now though this really does feel like goodbye.
I think North Carolina will only be a place I visit from now on.
That’s a humbling thought to have.
My family moved here in 2006 and I have had MANY special memories here.
Yet God’s got bigger plans for me and I must follow His lead.
I have SO, SO many feelings in this moment.
I will never feel this exact same way again.
Never.
I am in God’s hands.
He is taking me where I am most needed.
The “Little Wonders” of all the conversations I had with people will live on forever in my head. They are all SUCH a miracle to me and they were a direct gift from Heaven.
If you are reading this you are likely one of those wonderful gifts from Heaven, that came about from a conversation where our paths just crossed - what a beautiful thing!
God is great!
He has MUCH bigger plans for all of us.
I look forward to keep on sharing my journey and helping lift up others in theirs.
The best is ahead.
Hallelujah!
Choose to Be Seen
Last Sunday was my last Sunday at church here.
I was low-key stressing about talking to all the people that I “needed” to talk to.
Do I put WAY too much pressure on myself to talk to the “right” people?
Yes, I do this far too much.
Am I learning to just let go and let God more? Yep, I am.
Anyways yeah I ran into Brinson and Allen when I walked into church.
It was a miracle.
I met Brinson back in February (right around the time I went full-time).
Allen is an uplifting influence that I hadn’t seen in years.
They have both had experiences with me in the past.
I felt seen by them.
It was a joy.
We snagged a picture.
I also added them both into the YIELD Army.
Hallelujah.
This is your reminder to choose to be seen.
When we feel seen by God there are no limits.
He is able to do anything to help us get where we need to be.
Remember you are loved.
Remember you are seen.
Cherish every day while you are here.
Being seen is powerful!
I hope that this was an inspiration and strength for you today.
Here’s what we talked about again:
The Greatest Beauty Lives in the Heart
Being Seen is Being Healed
Cherish Divine Interruptions
Now here are
3 Empire-Building Thoughts on Hope🙌🏻
Hope is very important for me to get to where I feel I will get to. Hope helps me to cherish the little moments, knowing that bigger moments are ahead. Hope is an anchor to my soul, helping me to keep going. Hope these are helpful for you! 🏰
Give God Your Heart. When we let God fill us then we can be FILLED with His hope, strength, and peace. Whenever I have stressed about things it has jeopardized my hope. It’s not wise to do something like that to your precious hope.
Tell God Everything. When we are feeling SO FULL of joy, hurt, or whatever it’s SO vital to tell God about these things. He is able to turn our heartache into hope, our pain into purpose, and our sorrow into clarity. Pray. He’s always listening.
Let Go. As much as you try to control a situation you will likely find a lack of peace, clarity, and joy. This is because you are hoping to force something or make it happen how you’d like it to happen. God’s hopes and vision are grander. Let go.
The Last Thought 💭
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
I know that God is able to heal and lift our hearts.
I know that He is able to do wonders in them and change them.
I know that God is able to see us all on levels that far surpass understanding.
I know that the best is ahead for all of us as we keep seeking to understand how God sees us.
I know these things are true, through my life experiences and most importantly, the witness of the Holy Ghost, who bears witness of all truth.
I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
P.S.: In case you were wondering, yes, God’s love is greater than ALL of your fears.
This was beautiful. Got the notification and oh how God works. This is exactly what I needed to hear. In tears, thank you.