Life has a way of taking us quickly from our mundane, comfortable day-to-day routine. Sometimes down a seemingly wild run-off from torrential rain, or a sudden updraft like a tornado whirlwind in the desert. Or how about the infamous car crash, BAM......OUT OF NOWHERE? Interestingly, these are not things WE CAN CONTROL, and there is usually no remedy that we can come up with that would remove us from these situations. Recently I've been subjected to difficult health challenges. The Lord has reminded me through His Word what my role is while in this trial. Let me be transparent for a moment. As a loving Father, Best Friend, Husband, and God, He showed me exactly what I was doing to aggravate my pain. I had allowed sin, which I refused to see as sin, to creep into my life. It has been excruciating, literally, to deal with pain each and every waking moment, but, it has driven me to Him, with no other remedy or resolve on my part other than what He showed me. Here are the words He gave me:
"Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah." Psalm 46:10-11
Moses was sent by God Himself to speak to the people of Israel, and remember, Moses was a stutterer, not confident in himself, prone to anger, murdered a man, and was afraid.
"And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is low-born and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose (dethrone or remove from a high position) and bring to nothing the things that are."
1 Corinthians 1:28 AMP
"Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before or besides Me. You shall not make yourself any graven image (to worship it) or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; You shall not bow down yourself to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who have Me."
Exodus 20:1-5 AMP
So, rightly dividing His Word as Paul tells Timothy in 1 Timothy 2:15, we are to study, correctly analyze, rightly handle and skillfully teach the Word of Truth. That being said, He brought us OUT of the house of bondage so we are not called to bondage AGAIN by believing the lies of the enemy about us. We can begin to IDOLIZE the negative thoughts and lies that we are not called to do the things we know darn well GOD HAS CALLED US TO DO!!
We are not to 'bow down or serve' those lies and negative thoughts. So when I begin to find myself coming up with every reason under the sun to believe what others have said about me, and to believe the enemy's lie that God has 'not called me', then I redirect my focus on THE WORD OF GOD and........
"Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench (put to an end) all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the word of the Spirit, which is the WORD OF GOD: Praying always with all prayer and supplication IN THE SPIRIT, and WATCHING thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;"
Ephesians 6:16-18 KJV
Let us encourage ourselves in the Lord, IN HIS WORD, as David did, and not be caught idolizing our thoughts and feelings.
"Faith puts God between you and the enemy."
Why do we so easily put our thoughts and feelings before the WORD OF TRUTH? Old habits can be broken, new habits can be formed, but it takes an act of our will to do so!
On a journey of Healing and Hope with you,
Terri Lynne
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