The Season We Never Thought Of
Job 1:6-12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
6 Now there was a day when the sons (the angels) of God came
to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan (the adversary and accuser)
also came among them. 7 And the Lord said to Satan, From where
did you come? Then Satan answered the Lord, From going to and fro on the earth
and from walking up and down on it. 8 And the Lord said to
Satan, Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the
earth, a blameless and upright man, one who [reverently] fears God and abstains
from and shuns evil [because it is wrong]? 9 Then Satan
answered the Lord, Does Job [reverently] fear God for nothing? 10 Have
You not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side?
You have conferred prosperity and happiness upon him in the work of his
hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. 11 But
put forth Your hand now and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to
Your face. 12 And the Lord said to Satan (the adversary and the
accuser), Behold, all that he has is in your power, only upon the man himself
put not forth your hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
My husband and I were sitting in church on Wednesday
night listening to the Word of God go forth in a very powerful way. I listened intently because I had prayed
before going into church that I needed a specific word concerning some things
that I did not understand that were transpiring in my life and the life of our
family. Bishop Rudolph McCissick said
something that almost knocked me out of my seat; he said “there is a season when
the enemy is allowed to touch you and God will do nothing to stop or prevent
it.” I thought to myself what in the world,
why would a loving God that adores us so much that He would ask His son to die
for us do that? As I sat on the edge of
my seat trying to digest every nugget that was manifested in this message,
little did I know what was happening in my husband. We arrived home and all seemed well, and we
went about our nightly rituals, but I had no idea that with all we had been
going through, there was still more (no, not in our marriage in other areas). I had just asked God is it possible to get a
moment to breathe, it seemed like we had been going from one attack to another. Somewhere around 1 am my husband tells me
that he has been experiencing some serious symptoms since we were in
church. I immediately began to pray, not
moved by panic, I stayed steadfast in prayer, sleeping little and praying a
lot. In the morning I checked on my
husband and instead of the symptoms being gone they were still very present. I thought to myself, now this isn’t funny,
this is serious, and fear hit me. I still prayed but it seemed like my prayers
were now mixed with some panic. I did
not understand; as much as my husband and I tried to live right and do what was
asked of us, and follow the word of God and live holy here we were in a fight
for our lives in more than one way. As I
placed my face in the bed and did not know what to say, the Holy Spirit gave
me, some specific instructions. I
followed them, and did what I was told.
In a matter of 15 minutes, my husband’s symptoms stopped and although
exhausted and weak from the fifteen hours of symptoms, He was better.
At that moment God took me back to what was said the
night before, in the message. We are in
a season that it’s rough and although, God seems like He is not present He is;
He is standing there He just won’t touch it to save us from it. He may not be jumping into the mix, or speak,
but yet He is still present. This is a
season of being tried in the fire that is about proving ourselves and not just
proving ourselves, but living what we say we believe. What came to me, was will I really trust God
even though He doesn’t answer my prayers the way I think, or at all in those
moments and will I trust Him even when it seems His hands are off of me, in the
area of protection and provision? The
answer I came to find just yesterday and the night before was yes. You see I cannot say I understand God and all
that He does and is, but I can say that I know Him, because in spite of what
has and may be going on around me He has been faithful. I have come to understand that truly if I sow
in tears I will reap in joy. If I have had ashes that God will eventual replace
it with beauty. That if He said He will
never leave me nor forsake me that He is not like us, He doesn’t lie and He
hasn’t this is just something He has said we must face. But as with every
season, there is a start date and an end date.
There is a beginning and an ending.
It will not last forever and be this way forever!
Although we may never want to think about it, we all have
things that we must encounter and go through.
There are things we must face.
And yes whether we want to believe it or not our faith will be tested
and we will be tried. Remember the
object of this walk is to come out resembling God, through Christ. That we should be the reflective nature of
Christ here in the earth, but if we never go through anything, will that
happen? The likelihood is no that it
will ever happen. Purification is a
process and it cost us, and it causes us, and it convicts us. It test us, it
tries us and it tempers us. Don’t think
that just because you are in a season WHERE THINGS ARE TOUGH AND GOD IS SILENT
that you have been forsaken or God loves you less. The chances are God trust you more, loves you
more and is standing right by cheering you on knowing you can do it, you can
come through as pure gold, still trusting Him and loving Him, so that He can
return unto you more than you lost in this season or any other. Hold on to faith, even when God is silent and
you feel as if you may be fighting alone!
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