What do you do when the storm that you are in seems to overtake you and you don't know if you will make it?
What do you do when you feel that your faith is not enough to get you through?
What do you do when panic rises up in your chest and you feel like you just can't go on?
Those are probably the million dollar questions when you are in the middle of a crisis and you don't know if this "God Thing" works!!! We always ask, "God! Where are you?"
"God! Do you hear me?" "God! What am I going to do?"
That's where I am right now and I am going to have to take some of my own medicine! I always tell people who come to me with all of these same questions and panic that I am having right now......."Drive the stake in DEEPER!" How do you do that? and What in the world does that mean?
Right now, I can tell you that it means you get quiet. You meditate on the Lord. You tell him you know how good He is and that you trust Him. You love on Him. You cry to Him. You remind yourself of all the times He has brought you out. You remember the times when He healed your baby from a disease that was so aweful they wouldn't even tell you the symptoms because they were so horrible! You remind yourself how the Lord kept you safe in your car when the brakes went out and the officer at the scene said there is "no way" you should have made it through. You remind yourself how the doctors gave your mother 24hrs. to live but God said she had 8 more years! You remind yourself how the doctors assured you that you had cancer and you REFUSED to receive that report and you had the elders of the church lay hands on you.....the biopsy came back completely clean! on and on and on......
You dig up all these wonderful glorious miracles God has done for you and you praise and shout your way out of the darkness! You thank Him for the breath He gave you this morning to wake you up! You praise Him because He can never lie and He is the same yesterday, today and forever!! You remind yourself how He parted the sea for the children of Israel and how He brought the three Heberew boys out of the fire! And you encourage yourself that if He did it for them...He will do it for you!!
So you see, Faith is Enough! You just have to cause it to RISE UP! That's how you DIG in DEEPER!
Here are the words from a song that won't leave my little head right now;
"If you believe in God only and put no confidence in man,
everything that doth concern you, you placed it in His hand
though a host rise up against thee, to try and spoil the day,
he will rush in one way to harm thee but he must flee seven ways!
We are blessed in the city, we are blessed in the field
We are blessed when we come and when we go.
We cast down every stronghold, sickness and poverty must cease.
For the devil is defeated, for WE ARE BLESSED!"
(know that;) "Late in the midnight hour, God's gonna turn it around!!!"
He's gonna work in YOUR favor!!!"
Lord, break open our weakness and fill it with your strength!!!!
Lift the broken hearted! Heal the broken bodies!
Heal the tormented mind! Restore the broken families!
Bring peace that surpaseth all understanding!!
You are working in our favor!
We trust in you!!
In Jesus name,
Amen and Amen and Amen!!!!!
Carla
