The Deeper The Hurt, The More Profound The Anointing…
Job 42:10-15 (Amplified Bible)
10And the Lord turned the captivity of Job and restored his fortunes, when he prayed for his friends; also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they sympathized with him and comforted him over all the [distressing] calamities that the Lord had brought upon him. Every man also gave him a piece of money, and every man an earring of gold.
12And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
13He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14And he called the name of the first Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.
15And in all the land there were no women so fair as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
I was reading a Christian Fiction novel the other day and the main characters within this novel endured a trial that rocked their (what seemed to be), perfect existence. It struck them at their very core, and laid them to waste in a very public forum. This story line had struck a cord with me. As I continued to read, they met with their Pastor and their Pastor explained that the greater the trial the greater the testimony and the greater the anointing would be on that testimony and on the lives of these two characters. In books or in life this is truth! I have been privilege to travel, and meet many people, from many different backgrounds. But the one thing I have found is something universal, that those who have encountered trails that cut them deep, that had devastating effects, or the trials that basically could have driven them to the edge and pushed them over; when they have been tried in such a way and they have had God or found Him in the midst of this type of turmoil, they have come out stronger, bolder, more anointed, more blessed, and closer to God.
Today I was texting with a friend who is dear to me. God had been dealing with she and I alike and we were sharing. It seemed in the last year and half or more the two of us had been through one form of hell or another. She shared with me that she felt behind, and that she would have been further ahead in the call on her life and what God was doing in her had she not, gone through such things and gotten distracted, in the midst of what felt and appeared to be overwhelming circumstances. Those words wrung true and relevant again in my spirit, it was about the deepness of who cuts, the deepness of her bruises and the deepness of her hurt that God was using what she had been through to catapult her into new levels in Him. Genesis 50:20 (Amplified Bible), “As for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring about that many people should be kept alive, as they are this day.” It is when every one can see us as we are suffering and watching how we handle ourselves, when people are watching us bleed everywhere and they do not even lift a hand to help or gesture that they care, it is in these times of sorrow, and mourning, that God is yet leading us to a place of power and praise. A place where our words will exalt him and will reveal truth and deliver, those we come in contact with. It is when we lose so much of ourselves that we need so much of God to make it right that we come into a place of being chosen, and set aside for His glory!
What is it that you are going through, that seems so unbearable and hurtful? What has cut you so deep that you feel like you are on verge of bleeding to death, or has hurt you so bad that you do not feel as if you have another tear to cry? Whatever it is, if you are in Christ it may not be what those around you may think. It may not be a curse, or a punishment of disobedience. It may be the breaking of day, the re-creation, and resurrection that will give you power, and dominion over sin, sickness and even death. You see this is not a sickness or a trial unto death, but it is the one that gives new life and new strength for you and those you are blessed to minister to or share your life with!
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