First I should announce, for those of you that might not know, God is amazing in so many ways. Sadly, not everyone knows that the way I do, but let me show you something you might think is coincidence, but I say "HUMBUG to COINCIDENCE" this is God! Our first miracle that you already know about is that we are pregnant. Miracle number 2 is that this child is due just 1 week before Ruthie was due. This to me is amazing that God loves me so much that He wants to redeem the month of January for me. Miracle number 3 is that God is giving us back what was taken...we are to have a girl! She will be named Hannah Glorie for so many reasons I don't even have time to go into her name, but that is for another post I suppose.
The real reason for my post is a message of hope. Many of you have confided in me about miscarriages, stillbirths, infertility and pain associated with pregnancy and child birth. Let me confide in you this pregnancy is such a battle...mostly for my mind. The enemy wants to tell us so many lies like, "You will never have children" LIE! "You will never birth a healthy child" LIE!! "It's YOU..Your body messed up!" LIE LIE LIE! All of these are junk from the mouth of Satan himself! The sad thing is, we carry those lies around on our shoulders, in our minds, and in our hearts. And if God's timeline doesn't run parallel with ours we begin to not only carry the lies...but we believe them. Brothers and Sisters, this is NOT where Christ wants our minds. He wants our minds aligned with faith which is defined as "the substance of things HOPED for, the evidence of things NOT SEEN." What are you believing for today? Birth? Health? Pregnancy? KEEP FIGHTING THAT GOOD FIGHT. It will be worth it, the wait (though painful) will be worth it, I promise you that.
I find that if I don't daily battle my enemy (which sometimes is my own mind, and sometimes is the enemy himself) that I get defeated in so many ways. How do we beat the lies? With TRUTH which can only come from God's Word. We carry so many burdens, one of the greatest is fear--a spirit I know all too well (by the way, "Fear" is a spirit... an evil one). He at one time wrapped his claws into my mind and had me believing that I had to repeat the past when it comes to health and pregnancy. LIE! He had me bound, gagged, and laughed at me as I made it through my days. No longer! I am not to have a spirit of fear, but of power. Did you hear that friends? POWER! We can walk into those doctor appointments in POWER, we can take those pregnancy tests with POWER, we can proclaim God's Word and truth to barrenness, grief, sickness and tell it to flee with POWER. These are truths I have known for years, but they were revived in my heart this morning at church.
Let me tell you about my church service. The pastor spoke on our God, who in Hebrew is known as Jehovah Rapha ("Rafa") which means "The God that Health Me." I don't know about you, but that is one aspect of God I want to know! I am not willing to let that promise walk away, Amen!? He talked about a healing God that took our burdens, pains, sickness and carried it on his back all the way to the cross and when Christ was nailed to the cross so were our burdens. He then said something along the lines of, "Christ bore this pain...WHY ARE YOU STILL CARRYING IT? Only one person needs to carry it, and He already did 2000 years ago!" He listed the pains of his sheep: grief, shame, loss of a child, depression, sickness etc. and then brought out a large simple wooden cross and several suitcases of small black rocks. He encouraged the congregation to come up, get a rock, place our burden on the rock and toss it at the foot of the cross, never to be picked up again. I should mention I knew I was bound for the altar this morning before he even finished. Crying, I headed up with hundreds of others, grabbed my rock and spoke my burdens to it: fear, grief, illness you name it, and it occurred to me that I was placing my burden where it always was, on my Rock. When I got to the alter I proclaimed, "NEVER AGAIN SATAN..I WILL NOT BEAR THIS!" I tossed my rock at the symbol of my Rock, Jesus and walked away emotional and free.
Years of pregnancy, since my first born have always been fearful. Blood pressure readings always had me in freak out mode, protein urine tests you name it. I have not had a single appointment since Justus that was not gripped in some sort of fear, praying and hoping that God would make all numbers fall into place. Today I dropped that burden off my shoulders at the altar where it always has been. How angry that made me that Jesus carried it and Satan tricked me into carrying it as well. "I do not have a spirit of fear, but of power!"
I don't know where you stand with trials and issues today, but I know that they need to go where they always have been: the foot of the cross. Our sweet and precious savior did not just die so you could go to heaven...that's great and awesome, but there is so much more to that merciful death that our enemy doesn't want us to know about: freedom, deliverance from evil, forgiveness, healing, and a list of many others were granted unto you that day our sweet savior gave His life for ours. If you don't know Jesus like this, take time to tell Him you want this type of relationship with Him and that He is truly Lord. If you do know Jesus, let Him take from you whatever He wants INCLUDING YOUR BURDENS! May you walk in freedom today!
This song so spoke to me during worship today. Maybe God's time line isn't yours, maybe you are waiting, my guess is you need to be reminded of the powerful truths in this song. Faith CAN move the mountains...so command those mountains to MOVE in Jesus' Name!
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