Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, (Colossians 3:23)So yeah, I have to be strong for my family, for my ladies, to those who needs to be encourage and to my heart in music. And when I think about God, who should be the only reason for all of these things that I am doing, to honor Him. I confess that lately it's been hard to keep in mind that it's all about Him. When frustrations try to paralyze me, I seem to forget why it's all about God. Why? Why God? Yet deep down my soul, God is the only one that she knows that won't run out, that won't give up even if I do.
Lately, I have been waking up early. Even though I try to sleep again, just like before, my soul would just start praying for random people. And just this morning, instead of staying in slumber with my mind active on things of the Spirit, I decided to respond and pray the prayer that goes inside of me. Usually, I get hyped up after my morning devotions. But this time, it feels so heavy. Haha. It feels like I have been carrying a burden without knowing until I was made aware how heavy it is already.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, (Hebrews 12:1)And because I assume I know what to do, I thought I was doing the right thing. At least that's what I'm holding on. That I'm doing the right thing. Well, unlike others I'm not obsessed with doing things excellently, becoming something, but I always wanted to make everything right. So what do I do? Well, I always keep my hands in the situation. I wanted to make sure that everything goes according to how it should be, believing it should be.
Then God rebuked me one saturday noon while doing the laundry. Yeah, I think I always get wisdom when I do laundry. Funny but doing the laundry quiets my mind at war. So... He spoke a very familiar word: Prayer. And I'm like, HOW IN THE WORLD IS THIS POSSIBLE, LORD? Like He knows how I wanted to protect these people and I am asking Him what should I do and He tells me to pray for them? I mean, really. JUST pray?
Then I was figuring out how can prayer be powerful in the given circumstance. Along the way, I realize I forgot that God is God. I mean, I can't work out God's will for their lives right? I can't say it is God's will for them if I am manipulating things on how it should be. I remember even getting to a point of looking for books or any articles on the internet on how to help friends in that certain season.
We are accountable to God. Is there anything more powerful that this accountability out there? I mean, we can't expect people to be in all honesty to us. We can't compel them to. So how are we to judge the situation if we are not seeing the bird's eye view? Impossible right? Because it's not our job to. Our role in the story is to help them walk in Christ under whatever season. Remember that the enemy will always try to use everything on earth to distract us, separate us from our relationship to the Father. We don't have to hold the world for them, Jesus already died that burden for us.
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. (Colossians 1:15-20)Every season is a crucible to us. Every season refines us into becoming the real The reason in every season might be unknown, it might even be indefinite, but one thing stands true: GOD IS GOD. That one thing will never change. That He still loves us. And He is for us.
Lastly, if we want breakthroughs from a heavy season. Let's find our rest in the Lord. Not anywhere else. I believe there are a lot of reasons why we get to lose our resolve in what we're doing. It's that it is a routine, but solely because we forgot the purpose of it all. That what we're doing, what we're capable of doing right now is all by the grace of God. Let it be then that our perspective be eternal therefore letting those that lasts forever move us - faith, hope, love, peace, joy.
Again, I would like to remind everyone of us that we are not alone in this journey. Don't ever listen to the lies that God won't understand how you feel. He knows how you feel. He sees you. He knows every tear your eyes shed every time you hurt. He sees how you break down when things you want doesn't go the way you wanted it. And He hurts to see you hurt to. When you degrade yourself, when you slowly believe what others are telling you. It breaks His heart too.
Jesus came to relate with us. Jesus came, overflowed with love enough to give His life to save and redeem us. He won that battle for you. He fought the battle in sweat and blood. Let me remind you too that He didn't give up, He obeyed even to the point of death, because he saw you and wanted you to live a victorious life. He took your depression, frustrations, stress, failures, mistakes, unforgiveness, shame, guilt and all that strains us. And give us a new life in new light.
This is funny. Sorry but this post is so random, got a lot of topics and yeah... so me, got to think about the issues I have to resolve, deal it with God the viola! Ministered to myself.
Hahaha.
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