What Say You?

      

    If you say “I love God” and worry about everything, then you are a liar and do not understand what love is. Worrying, not necessarily in words but in thoughts. For to worry is to tell God He is not good enough to handle what you are going through.

   Granted, sometimes the shock can be daunting, the emotions explosive and the reasoning in one’s, mind endless, there is however much wisdom is taking a time out. A ‘Sabbath’ in you, a time , a moment where one is needed to be still and reflect not on the circumstance or situation but on who God is, not forgetting you made it this far because He carried you there.                                    

    The Lord Jesus did most of his healings on the Sabbath day. A day of rest from all the demands and activities of life and work and a day used to honour God. To worry, takes work and it is exhausting and leaves one even in a worse state than the beginning. A Sabbath was a mandatory day of rest, no work, rest! So in dealing with life and confronted with situations….take series of Sabbaths to seize from work; mental work and analysing everything and focus all your attention on God. We are naturally programmed to focus on situations forgetting that focusing on those things takes our attention from the very place help will come.

       

       OF NECESSITY: ‘I LIFT UP MY EYES TO THE HILLS’

QUESTION: “WHERE DOES MY HELP COME FROM?”

OF A TRUTH/ANSWER: MY HELP COMES FROM THE LORD, THE MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.

    God through His words says “fear not, for I am with you.” He knew that there will be times when situations may look very unfavourable but He gave an assurance before hand.

          Do you consider the night sky, the stars the moon and the marvellous creations of His mighty hands? The One that did all those things said “I am with you” “For I have not given you the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” Instead of letting the spirit of fear dwell with you in hard times, why don’t you try the spirit of power, the spirit of love and the spirit of a sound mind?

      Worrying takes your focus from God who is the Almighty and focuses it on a phase that would not last forever and exalt it beyond its borders, give it the power to toy with you as it pleases and leaves you a state of perpetual mental, emotional and physical mess.

       The job of the enemy is to introduce those thoughts continually into your mind, when he sees you are shaken he knocks you out but when he realizes you subject those thoughts to the standard of God’s word, he lets go. Do not give the devil a leg up over you; you are too defended to be tossed like the waves of the ocean.

      I have heard it say when it feels lie heaven is shut over you and silent to your calls, it is not that you haven’t been noticed but great faith to those who wait the longest because in the place of waiting, you are been transformed. The Redeemer is able to save and ready to save so at the end of it all, you can boldly say “I know my Redeemer lives and He lives for evermore.”

        

      Isaiah 43:2-3

When you pass through the waters,

I will be with you

And when you pass through the rivers,

They will not sweep you,

When you walk through the fire,

You will not be burned;

The flames will not set you ablaze.

For I am the Lord your God,

The Holy one of Israel, your saviour.

  

     Notice it is ‘when’ and not ‘if’ therefore as long as we are alive on this earth, situations are going to come up against us but we must not fear. Also, it may be waters, rivers or fire, our challenges may be different but it is common to man. In all of these, God is there and He is mighty to save.

    Ponder on this, when the devil brings those thoughts into your mind to elicit fear, tell him of his own future, tell him how he is a defeated foe and how chains of torment have been reserved for him in eternal darkness but you are the apple of God’s eye. Tell him those scriptures that promises you a glorious outcome and future and he will leave. “Resist the devil and he shall flee”

   It is too early to give up!

Enjoy and have a blessed week!

The Mountain Mover

                               

          All I knew was I was given an assignment to complete and there was a price at the end of the journey.

    A price that couldn’t be bought with gold, silver, the rarest jade, no amount of money or the world itself but no one ever told me of the twists and turns, of the highs and lows and of course the mountains…oh !those mountains!

      Those mountains scared me, made be cower and sometimes I was forced to look for alternate routes which always ended me up in more twists and turns. Then I will remember the instruction “Go on straight, do not deviate from this path, and continue till the end”.

      How do I go on when mountains blocked the way? Oh those mountains! They were as tall as mighty oak tress staked on top of each other, as wide as a river with edges as sharp as swords.

So many times I got discouraged that I would sit down and focus on the mountains, wondering how I will ever get to the end. Tempted to turn back and walk back to the beginning and throw my hands up in the air in defeat.

     But what I did not realize sooner was that the One who sent me on the journey in the first place was the Mountain mover himself and He told me all I had to do when I see a big scary mountain was to get on my knees and pray and have faith in Him as small as a mustard seed.

     Then I arose to my feet, I saw a clear path, my Mountain Mover had worked. All I could say “was thank you Mountain mover.” Then I continued onward, many times I saw even bigger mountains worse than the first but I always remembered what my Mountain Mover told me and anytime I got on my knees to pray, before I rose up the mountains were no longer there.

     Then one day, as I was walking unaware of what will happen next then a big ol’ mountain popped up directly from the earth beneath me. In my heart I was scared, I prayed but the mountain would not go away. Then I heard a voice say to my heart “do not be afraid, you carry me on the inside now” then I looked at the mountain with eyes and heart full of courage and said “go away” and like an obedient slave it disappeared. Oh happy day!!!

     I continued till the very end knowing my mountain mover was ever with me. At the end of the journey, I saw my Mountain Mover waiting for me and He said “welcome home my very own”

Jeremiah 23:29 Is my word not like as a fire?saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Mark11:23 For verily I  say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

     Friends, we have all it takes to deal with the mountains of this life. Let us begin to focus on the power of our God instead of the limitation of our own strength.  Zechariah 4:7