My pastor always says, “God doesn’t want exclusivity, He
wants priority.” That quote came to me right after I kept hearing Shana Wilson’s
song “Give Me You” playing in my head. “Give me You. Everything else can wait.
Give me You. I hope I’m not too late. It’s me oh Lord, down on my knees…crying
out to You…give me You!” Sometimes we look for peace, healing, love, joy…everything
to come from man. We want the doctor to prescribe the right medicine or suggest
the right surgery but we don’t trust God for the total healing. We want our
spouse to be all that we need and fill us up with love, but we don’t
acknowledge God as being the definition of love. We want our job to give us a
healthy financial life but we don’t believe God for all of our provision. Today,
the message is simple. God is enough.
Everything comes down to our relationship with God. No
matter what we face or what comes against us, if we have a true relationship with
God that consists of love, obedience and trust, we can survive any test, even
death. 1 John 5:4 says “For everyone who
has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has
overcome the world – our faith.” You see, God has every battle plan stored up
for every war that you enter. He is all knowing, all powerful and ever present.
The key is that we put our faith in Him. He doesn’t fail. He doesn’t lie. He
doesn’t abandon.
I know that some of you have been dealing with sickness and
death. It’s been crazy lately! So much has happened in 2013 and it’s we are
only 2 months in but God is still God. One thing He promised is that He would
never leave us or forsake us (Deut. 31:6) and we have to stand on that and
believe it. If your husband never gets it, God will love you. If your sister is
not healed on this side of glory, God will give you peace. If you never live in
your dream home, God will still provide for you. He is enough and He understands. Why do you
think He gave us Jesus? He knew that we could not handle what the world and the
enemy had to offer us. I love what Hebrews 4: 14 –16 says about Jesus as our
High Priest and our intercessor. The
Message Bible translates it like this. “Now that we know what
we have—Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God—let’s not let it
slip through our fingers. We don’t have a priest who is out of touch with our
reality. He’s been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the
sin. So let’s walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take
the mercy, accept the help.”
I love that God can be all things to all people. We as
humans can’t. I can’t go with both of my children at the same time and protect
them during the day, but God can. We have to get to a place in our relationship
with God where we trust Him with all that we have. We have to know that if we
have Him, we have enough. Do you remember when Paul was dealing with the thorn
in his flesh and he asked God 3 times to take it away? The Lord answered in a
way that I think sums everything up. He said, “My grace is sufficient for you,
for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Cor. 12: 9 NKJV) You don’t
have to figure it out. You don’t have to be all for everyone or fix everything.
You can rest on the fact that God’s grace is sufficient and that He grows ever
stronger in your weakness. He is enough to sustain you through anything that
you are facing.
So here’s the challenge today: lay it down! So tired, you
can barely function? Lay it down! So frustrated that you can’t enjoy your everyday
life? Lay it down! So bitter that your past experiences have spilled over into
your present? Lay it DOWN! God is able
and HE IS ENOUGH.
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