Stronger

WOW what a time this has been over the last several months! Well let's not even say months lets say years, cause when I face reality it's been a rough rough rough time since September of 2009. So many many things have went on in my life since then, I won't even begin to share on here all the things good or bad that have happened. The thing is I was listening to a Mandisa song the other day and it really hit home with me on where I have been for the last 2 years. The song is called Stronger. Here's what has occurred in my mind while even now listening to that song! You always here people say that God will not put more on you that you can bear, well that's not exactly what the scripture says. What the scripture says is this 1 Corinthians 10:13 says in the New Living Translation - - - The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure. So I have laughed about this scripture when I hear people saying it to me and I think ok God you must trust me an extreme amount to put everything on me that you have and then I realize if He thinks I can handle all this - well then what He is walking me through is really making me Stronger. I sure don't feel like it in days I have been going through but let me say I have to encourage you that even though the trials seem overwhelming to you - know that what you are going through is only making you stronger!

Giants.....they fall

So through all the battles that I feel like I have been going through lately I have came across a song that has really ministered to me. It is one of my uncles Charles favorite songs it’s called “Giants” and I love listening to that song because it lets me know that even though I am going through these trials those “Giants” the bigger they are the harder they are going to fall under the power of God.

I know that in life it may seem so easy to just feel like when things come our way that we can’t handle to just give up and run away. That’s where I have to come to realize lately that I don’t need to run away. I need to just cast my burdens at the feet of Jesus. I need to hide myself in the cross. I need to open my eyes and realize that the “giants” that are in front of me are nothing compared to the Christ I serve who is protecting me!

I love the scripture in Romans that says, What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us? It is true with God being for us we have no one that can be against us. No “giant” is big enough to defeat our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. No “giant” is a “giant” at all with God on our side.

I think about David versus Goliath – Goliath yes he was gigantic but David had the Lord on his side so one tiny smooth stone in his hands was far greater than any weapon that Goliath could have potentially had. That’s why I think of it this way – no matter what trial or test I go through I know that if I stand on God’s Holy Word and if I maintain an open line of communication through prayer and reading God’s Word, that no weapon formed against me is going to prosper and I AM more than a conqueror. (Can I get a witness!)

So I must say if you are going through a battle, struggling through a trial, rest in knowing that no weapon formed against you shall prosper and soon those Giants are going to come down and remember that the bigger they are the harder they will fall.

Be Blessed

Trish D.

Music of My Heart....

There is a beautiful song by Nicole C Mullen that is called the Music of my Heart…it is a very powerful anthem to our Lord and Savior. She sings it so beautifully to the Lord, you’re the music of my heart, the melody within my soul. I think about that song today, because within the struggles and trials that I have been walking through these past few weeks and even months, that song rings true in my heart today, Lord you are the music of my heart, you are the melody within my soul, you’re the one who keeps me and sustains me, and when I don’t feel like I can take another step, I’m reminded usually through another of Nicole C Mullen’s songs and also sang by the Crabb Family that in this trial I can look and I can see that My Reedemer Lives. I know that even though I have been walking through a very hard time that I can stand upon the Rock of MY salvation and HE is there – He is the constant that keeps the music in my heart – just like last night at church – my heart so heavy and burdened I was to lead praise and worship, and as I stepped to the microphone and began to sing Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now I’m found was blind but now I see – My chains are gone I’ve been set free MY God MY Savior has ransomed me and like a flood His mercy reigns unending love Amazing Grace!

The music of my heart this morning even though it is the dreaded Monday of the work week – My Chains are Gone – those chains of sin that I’ve been set free from – and when I walk through the trials and test of my salvation – I know that I can make it because my Redeemer lives and He’s gonna take me through this fire again! This to shall pass and the victories are ahead!

Is there something that maybe you’ve been struggling with – a trial or a test you’ve been going through – and maybe you’ve been thinking here lately about quitting or giving in – or maybe you just feel down right defeated – let me encourage you today – go to your source – run to Him – He will see you through – and if you need prayer by all means were here to pray with you!

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Be Blessed

Trish D