It doesn’t matter what I write over the subsequent few moments, it received’t be sufficient to clarify the splendor, surprise, and thriller of our God. The issues I’m about to share are definitely not an exhaustive listing of the majesty of our God. They’re however a snippet of who He’s. I don’t write to you in the present day as a Bible scholar or theologian or a PhD. I do not write to clarify each thriller. I write to you as a sister in Christ who has learn God’s Phrase for greater than 30 years. I’ve walked by numerous hardships, being the place a lot of you’re. I would like you to know that you’re seen, you’re valued, you aren’t forgotten, you’re greater than a conqueror by Christ Jesus, and the Lord desires to minister to you and meet you the place you’re.
In my darkest occasions, these are just some of the issues I’ve realized about God:
1. He’s a sustainer. He’s going to maintain you in your NOW season. Maintain means to assist, maintain up, or bear the load of, to maintain, and to provide requirements. God’s Phrase says in Is. 46, verse 4 – “Even to your outdated age and grey hairs, I’m he, I’m he who will maintain you. I’ve made you and I’ll carry you. I’ll maintain you and I’ll rescue you. Isaiah 46:4 NIV. A lot of you are within the ready season. You might be overwhelmed by stress and suffocating from the load of all you carry. God is a rescuer, a healer, and He’s a deliverer. However when you are in the course of the battle, ready on the therapeutic, ready on the rescue, ready on the deliverance, God is sustaining you in the course of the ache. It’s good to be reminded of all that God has sustained you thru already, all that He’s offered. Be inspired at the present time that His provision might be sufficient. Cease specializing in “if I may simply get there….”, then I’ll be joyful, then I’ll worship the Lord, then I’ll dwell a pure life. Concentrate on the God who’s sustaining you in your present season. Don’t look forward to issues to be good to shift your perspective.
2. He’s a restorer. Whereas restoration might be instantaneous (as a result of our God can do all issues), my expertise reveals me that if usually takes time. It’s a course of that takes persistence and endurance and religion, as we wait upon the Lord. We be taught a lot by the method of restoration. I’ve seen the Lord take essentially the most damaged of locations in my life and restore them (often not in the best way I believed)! I’ve seen Him due the miraculous and restore all of the “locusts” ate in a previous, troublesome, season. I’m satisfied He’ll do it once more for others.
However I additionally wish to cease and say this. For a few of you, restoration in your life will come after repentance. I’ve realized that in lots of occasions in life repentance was crucial on this means of seeing the Lord restore. Repentance results in restoration with the Father. (I am reminded of how the daddy ran to the prodigal son, whereas he was but a good distance off in Luke 15:20). Is there something in your life that requires repentance? Is there something inflicting extra ache? A few of us want acknowledge that we’re now not glad with the filth of our pig pens. Sadly, a few of us created our personal pig pens! Maybe there’s somebody studying in the present day (who, like me) must know that the Father is looking you to restoration with Him in the present day.
3. God is a healer. He’s Jehovah Rapha, the God who heals. I wish to discuss to you about deep ache, unyielding, unrelenting, suffocating, ache. Solely if in case you have been there’ll you perceive this stage of ache. It’s the ache that causes you to gasp for air, your coronary heart to race. Please know in the present day that God bottles each tear and He’s close to to the broken-hearted. I consider the Good Samaritan in Luke 10 and the way he took pity, bandaged the wounded man, and positioned him on his donkey and took him for care on the inn. That is our Lord – leaning down and taking pity on his wounded sheep. God hasn’t forgotten you. I’ve walked by a lot ache and brokenheartedness by the years, typically pondering it will kill me. However I have been healed time and time once more. The identical is true for you; God goes to heal you.
4. God is righteous. Every part in regards to the Lord is righteous. His anger, His methods, His ideas are all righteous. We have to tremble in worry of God. We shouldn’t have permission to function in passive, rationalized sin. Our God is a Holy God. Matthew 7:13 & 14 says, “You possibly can enter God’s Kingdom solely by the slim gate. The freeway to Hell is broad, and its gate is extensive for the numerous who select that means. However the gateway to life could be very slim and the street is troublesome, and only some ever discover it.” Too many reside on the extensive path anticipating to get by the slim gate. God doesn’t bless the counterfeits, the cultural shifts. We can not declare Christianity and dwell like tradition. Too many say, I’m advantageous with God, so long as it requires no sacrifice, no obedience, no self-discipline, and no self-control. We would like the blessings of God with out the righteousness of God. We serve the one true Holy God or we serve the god of this world. (Devil). Many people are making covenants with the enemy and don’t even realize it or don’t even care. The ticket for a lot of of you who’re struggling is to stroll righteously earlier than a righteous God.
5. God is supernatural. He can do in a second what you’ve been praying a lifetime for. He delivers from demons, restores sight and breaks chains. Once you’ve walked by the demise of a cherished one, the ache of the most cancers prognosis, or the heartache of a misplaced marriage, He offers dancing the place tears as soon as flowed. That very same Spirit lives on the within of us. Colossians 1:15-16 says, “Christ is the seen picture of the invisible God. He existed earlier than something was created and is supreme over all creation, for by him God created all the pieces within the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the issues we are able to see and the issues we are able to’t see—comparable to thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities within the unseen world. Every part was created by him and for him.” Many people are snug with the pure a part of Christianity. We will learn His phrase, give our tithe, sing our three songs, and listen to the sermons. However it’s within the supernatural, the place we get uncomfortable. After we don’t perceive therapeutic, deliverance, non secular warfare, and non secular presents, we get uncomfortable.
Here’s what I do know – the facility of our residing God is unexplainable. Our God will attain down, in His mercy and love and charm, and redeem that which was misplaced. God is transferring in the present day and His energy is actual in the present day. Our Father is mysterious, compassionate, miracle-working and awe-inspiring. He’s El-Shaddai, El-Roy, Jehovah Jireh, Adonai, Yah-Weh, Jehovah Nissi, Jehovah Shalom. He’s the eternal God, and the Lord of hosts. God desires to heal, restore, and redeem in the present day. The Father desires to offer you relaxation on your weary soul.
Jennifer Maggio is a mother to 3, spouse to Jeff, and founding father of the nationwide nonprofit, The Lifetime of a Single Mother Ministries. She is writer to 4 books, together with The Church and the Single Mother. She was named one of many Prime 10 Most Influential Folks in America by Dr. John Maxwell in 2017 and 2015 and has appeared in a whole lot of media venues, together with The New York Occasions, Household Discuss Radio with Dr. James Dobson, Joni and Associates, and lots of others.
