He Wants to Break You, Before your Breakthrough
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (New Living Translation)
9 Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. 10 That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
This past month has been a very strange one for me. The closer I’ve gotten to God, the crazier my thoughts have become. A part of me feels a sense of disconnect from God throughout the day, but a part of me feels so close I can feel his pulse. During my morning prayer I have had to really focus and push through. The enemy has been attacking my mind with thoughts of giving up on my salvation. The funny thing is that I literally can see the battle within myself. I’ve been here before.
It’s almost like I see the bus coming straight at me, but I can’t move out of the way. I’ve cried a few times and each time the thoughts come they last a little bit longer the time before. This Sunday when I got up for church I went back and forth with the idea of just not going. My flesh was saying God doesn’t speak to me anyway, and my spirit was saying I’m in vain. Well, I pressed through and won’t you know that right after the blog on Friday dealing with strength, Pastor Brown spoke on discovering your strength.
He used the scriptures to show that God will allow us to be broken down to strength us up. I needed that message. I had been questioning God to show me why I was going through everything I was going through. Why I had to continue to repeat test that I thought in my mind I had passed. Well, He confirmed that not every trial that comes our way, is a backlash of a sin from our past. Some times it’s nothing more that God breaking us down, and putting us in position for our breakthrough.
Today as we head back into our normal routine of things, let’s continue to exercise our muscles of faith and stay strong in the Lord. It’s not easy and God never promised it would be…………. but its right when we feel ready to give up, that God is getting ready to lift us up. Don’t let go- - - - right before God lets go of your blessing. Don’t fall down- - - - - right before your miracle falls from heaven and don’t stop trusting- - - -right before God entrusts you with all that He has waiting for you.
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