It’s Not Personal, It’s Spiritual…
Matthew 14:22-23 (Amplified Bible)
22Then He directed the disciples to get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He sent away the crowds.
23And after He had dismissed the multitudes, He went up into the hills by Himself to pray. When it was evening, He was still there alone.
The other day a long time friend texted me at about 6am. We love each other and have been in each others lives through good, bad and indifferent. We have seen each other at our best and worst. But we do not communicate on a regular basis, but her text simply indicated I had been in her spirit for the last couple of weeks and that she was praying for me. She is someone that knows nothing about my day to day trials and had no idea of what my recent battles had been, but by the spirit of God laying me on her heart, mind and spirit. As we texted during that day, we shared about the battles we were going through and had been through, but she texted something that caught my attention and it was something that confirmed my situation. She stated as she was in the midst of a “fight for her life,” she had pushed back from just about everyone short of her daughter who lived with her. It was nothing personal, but it was a matter of survival, a matter of her focus and a matter of having to keep connected to God, so as not to lose the battle that she was in the midst in.
When Jesus was tempted and tried of Satan He was driven into the wilderness alone. When Jesus was in the midst of His ministry and found himself being persecuted, tried, and tested He would send the disciples away or find a way to go off by Himself to seek the Father. When Jesus was bound for Calvary’s Cross, and His flesh did not want to endure the pain that lay ahead, but His spirit was challenging Him to stay focused although disciples were present with Him, Jesus pressed in and went into the Garden a bit further to be alone with God, to gain strength, courage and maintain focus and the obedience to Father God. He had to press into a place of prayer and worship that only He could, because this was His cross to bare alone.
I remember when my Grandmother was alive, when her body was under attack, or circumstances in her life were being tried she would spend time in prayer alone in her bedroom. She sometimes would sit in her room in the dark, just communing with God. She understood that sometimes when you are fighting for your life, or God is allowing you to be tried by fire, you have to commune with Him in a way that lets Him know that He is the focus and Him alone. When your back is up against the wall often it is the pray of solitude that gets God’s attention and/or allows you to hear God’s whispers of love and care. It is in these times and moments with God that you are allowed to recognize this is your season to study to be quiet, and know that He is God in your life in spite of all Hell breaking lose in your life.
As you go into your weekend know that no matter whether you are the one being tried by fire or one not yet in the fire it is not personal it is SPIRITUAL. It is about Obedience, Growth and Progression, it about the will of God being worked through in our lives, it is about burning out the impurities to be the precious element that God wants us to be. For all of us it is about learning what to do to go through the test and pass it, with flying colors. It’s not about us at all, but it truly is all about Jesus, and the will of the Lord being worked out in our lives!
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