Thursday, February 12, 2015

Stand strong!


Today was not one of those days where God gave a long profound message. I asked for a relevant and Rhema word to help you in your right now. He told me simply to encourage you to stand strong.

Amazingly, we are almost through the 2nd month of the year and for some of you these 6 weeks have been a roller coaster. You have faced challenges at home, at church, at work, with your health and the list can go on. At times, you may have wondered how you got where you are. You may have even wondered if your life would be easier if you just gave up or just stepped back from everything. But God wanted to remind you that you have purpose. You have something to offer this world that no one else has. I can pretty much hear your response to that echoing loudly in my ear. ‘Well then why do I have to deal with all of this “stuff”?!’ I know that because I have asked that very question this week! But you know what? Everything that you have faced has prepared you for the next thing. The struggle to get your husband to understand your point of view is preparing you to be able to clearly and directly minister to someone in a hard place. Having to bear the constant weight of your family’s issues and problems is teaching you how to counsel others and then release the weight. The seemingly never ending search for a job is building your compassion for those who struggle to make it and need to know that God will provide.  Stand strong!

God is faithful and He is present! I love to call him Jehovah Shammah for He is truly there in your situation. He kept reiterating to me that He wants you to know that you are not alone. 2 Corinthians 1: 3- 5 gives us a comforting word from the Apostle Paul. He says, All praise to the God and Father of our Master, Jesus the Messiah! Father of all mercy! God of all healing counsel! He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us. We have plenty of hard times that come from following the Messiah, but no more so than the good times of his healing comfort—we get a full measure of that, too.” (MSG) Doesn’t that encourage your spirit? God knows that what you have dealt with has not been easy. He knows that you have had some hard times but in all of that, He is there. Not only that, but He gives a full measure of healing and comfort. Who better to lift you back up from a hard place than your God? Stand strong!

 I encourage you today to remember whose you are. Remember that you were not promised easy but you were promised forever. God said He would NEVER leave you or forsake you. That’s a powerful statement and it’s one that I have to remind myself of from time to time when the fight gets too hard. Stand strong in your faith! Stand strong in your waiting period! Stand strong in your assignment! Jehovah Shammah is right there holding you up with in His hands…

Be blessed…AMEN

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