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When Disappointment Becomes Despair – II

“We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.”

2 Corinthians 4:8

I am confident that the Lord sees our hearts because His word in Proverbs 13:12 proclaim that, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”

So what happens when you feel like your hope is deferred?

How do you faithfully respond when the eagerness and faithfulness to cling to a word that God has given you is seen as delayed from where you stand?

What do you do when your own minds starts to wage war against you and call you crazy for believing in the promise in the first place?

When you have done all you can, when you have done your best in being patient, when you have mastered worship as a response to the pain of waiting, and still your circumstances portray everything unlikely to the promise of God, then what?

Does the heart then not become sick? Does disappointment not then become despair? Does your fleeting hope then not make you so grievous that you dare to question the intent of God when He gave you the desire in the first place???

Believe me when I say I stand with you in that place of confusion, uncertainty, and tiredness.

But we cannot stay there!

We must not stay there!

By the power of the living Christ, WE WILL NOT REMAIN IN DESPAIR in Jesus name!!!

Because that is not what God promised. That is not what God called us to. That is certainly not what God has brought us this far to do.

I confess that these last few days felt like hell. I felt such a grieving distance from God that it pained me to pray and utter faithful words like I did when the promise was first revealed to me. But like a refreshing rain, the Holy Spirit poured into me in my hour of hopelessness.

When I was about to give up, when I was about to tap out, when I was about to release my hope completely and claim defeat over this word, God turned ME around. God shifted something in me and called me to decide.

Friend, the only thing between your disappointment and your despair is your decision to change your mind about how you see the disappointment in the first place.

No, it may not look anything like the promise. No it may not feel like your faith is strong enough to withstand the process to the promise. But I am here to remind you that God is not man that HE should lie. God told you He would. He promised you something. He said He would do it, so HE will do it.

IN FACT, IT IS ALREADY DONE!

For we serve a God who is timeless, a God who WAS, IS, AND IS TO COME. So if you got a word that is to come, know that it is already done and you are only yet to see it manifest.

I am praying for you as I am praying for myself, may the Lord renew our minds today. May our hope be renewed and our confidence strengthened in our mighty God who has never failed. You can count on God’s word! He has done it before and we will see Him do it again, Only bigger than the last time in Jesus name. Amen!

When Disappointment Becomes Despair – I

“We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.”

2 Corinthians 4:8

I cannot begin to name all the reasons that has kept me from posting for over 3 months. I cannot begin to count the many battles fought, lost, and fought again till won to be here in this present hour. But to God be the glory who fights our battles even when we are too stubborn to let go of the reins.

Despair is defined as the complete loss or absence of hope.

For any believer to find themselves in a place of despair is nothing to joke about or skid over. It is serious business when you reach a place in your journey, a time in your life, a realm in your walk of faith, that dares you to look God in the eyes and say that you do not believe the promise anymore.

I don’t know about you but for me, to despair feels like an agonizing breach of contract with God. It is a state of mind that abruptly rips apart the intimacy between me and God because I confess that I no longer have confidence in what God said to me.

I was in that place these past few days and I am still recovering from the war it was to fight back the strongholds that tried to keep me there.

It honestly began with a subtle disappointment. Then that disappointment reminded me of another disappointment over the same promise, then another fell in line, and then another, and before I knew it, I was immobile in my house under the heavy weight of despair.

See the thing about hoping on the word of God is that it necessitates expectation. Hope stirs up in you a distinct level of expectation from God where you look for the promise everywhere, every-time. Hope will do that to you.

Hope will have you stretching all your limitations and believing in God for an unseen type of miracle.

But what happens when your hope starts to feel the weight of waiting???

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Are You Awake?

“How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?”

Proverbs 6:9

We all know that there is a danger to sleep-walking, but no one readily tells you that there is also a danger to spiritual slumber.

In this place of Promise, I am realizing more and more that I cannot afford to slumber spiritually even for a moment. Purpose requires me to be spiritually steadfast at all times. And it is no different for you.

There is indeed a shift in the atmosphere. God is shifting things for HIS glory and only those spiritually awakened can feel and see what is happening according to the will of the Almighty.

I wonder today if you are one of the chosen who has allowed your spirit to fall asleep.

I wonder today if you are one of the chosen who have become so distracted with the physical that you have ignored the existence of the supernatural realm of the greater things that are happening right now.

Friend, it is time to wake up!!! And it is time to move in your awakening!

How much conflict have you allowed to prosper while in your spiritual slumber? How much confusion have you allowed habitation in your heart? How much pollution have you given residence to while you ignored your slumbering Spirit?

Child of God, awake and arise in the Spirit of God! Awake your slumbering spirit and arise in the strength of the Spirit!

The battle for your mind, your joy, and your peace has waged long enough while you slumbered in spirit. The distractions and disputes within you and all around you ought to come to a halt now because the Spirit of the living God in you is rising back up.

The Spirit of fearlessness and faithfulness is rising again in you, aiming to do what the Creator intended for it to do through you.

It is in your awakening, that you are aware. It is in your awakening that the fruits of the Spirit begin to flourish and bloom. It is in your awakening, that discernment empowers your every thought, speech, and action. So arise you slumbering Spirit in Jesus name!

I pray for your awakening today. The God of wonders is calling forth your slumbering spirit right now. May it heed the Voice of God and arise obediently in Jesus name! Amen.

Mediated By Meditation – II

“I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.”

Psalm 119:99

Think of meditation as a practice of alignment with God.

Your meditation is a search, a plea even to be taken to ‘another place’ even while still physically in one place. A true believer wants to go to that place, that realm, that state, where everything is clearer, where every sign is visible, where every movement is felt.

Friend, can you imagine the renewal of mind that takes place in this greater realm?

King David attested to that in the scripture above, confessing that he found wisdom and truth even greater than that of all his teachers by meditating on the Word of God for himself.

And if we are still un-convinced by the power of meditation, let’s examine the life of meditation that Christ our Savior lived?

HE was on a mission. HE had a purpose. HE was to save the world through crucifixion. But on His way to that cross, the journey of His life mirrored that of a meditating man.

And how wonderful is it that the Son of Man then became the mediator between God and mankind. It says in 1 Timothy chpt 2 vs 5, that

there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.”

Even our Great mediator lived in meditation.

Why shouldn’t we?

Our alignment with the Spirit comes through meditating on the Word of God, who in His sovereign wisdom imparted that Spirit on you and I.

So if not for the discipline that becomes of character by the practice alone, consider the other gains of meditation.

The fruits of the spirit flows through meditation. Love, patience, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. We need every last one of these fruits in our lives.

Friend, I urge you today to be mediated by meditation. God’s Word is all we have that is unchangeable and un-shakeable, and the purpose on your life depends on HIS Word.

I pray today that we are convicted by the Holy Spirit to seek after the One who knows our beginning, middle, and end. May we be elevated yet again to meditate on the sweet Word of the Most High God and be equipped to stand firm on it when all that is shakeable begins to shake in Jesus name. Amen.

Mediated By Meditation – I

“I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.”

Psalm 119:99

To the one who is unfamiliar with the spiritual realm, it is peculiar to hear of another person meditating on the Word. Or simply spending an ample amount of time seeking God’s direction through sincere meditation.

But I give glory to God that you and I have been lifted by the Holy Spirit to peek into the greater realm of Glory even in the land of the living.

Take for example the difference in aura of someone who meditates in the natural sense. A yoga instructor, or ballet expert, or a practiced magician. The one thing that separates the air of these individuals with the common person, is the degree of meditation that each gives to the craft.

There is a noticeable calm, focus, or discipline about those that meditate. There is a visible distinct stronger sense of power and control within the meditating individual.

Meditation changes things.

And for you and me, in the walk with the Most High, meditation changes everything!

Don’t you know that meditation mediates between the natural and spiritual? Are you not aware that your devoted time to meditate on God’s word is what elevates you into His Holy presence? How do you know when God is present if your spirit is not opened to receive Him?

Friend, this is what meditation is all about.

Often times, we hear preachers and spiritual leaders go on and on about studying the Word and ‘spending time’ with God. I have come to find that this is the realm of meditation.

When we bring ourselves into a place of attentiveness, when we begin to control the reception that comes through our senses, this is when we are able to leave the realm of the natural and rise into the realm of the spiritual.

The scripture tells us to keep our mind on higher things, on the things of God. Reading a book might be an attempt for some to keep their mind or interest on higher things, but it is the meditation on what has been absorbed that elevates the mind to remain at that higher realm of understanding.

There are visions awaiting us through meditation. There are assignments waiting on us through meditation. There is power waiting to be released through meditation.

So why then are we not eager to be mediated by meditation? Why do we continue to ignore wisdom standing at the gates of meditation?

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