When was the last time you prayed down on your knees, or got someone to pray for you because you're struggle is hard, and you don't know if your prayers are answered.
Are you walking through a time of incredible grief?
Perhaps you're holding onto hope for a lost friend, lost in the ways of doubt and despair.
I don't mean to be depressive or hard, but sometimes we have so many prayers that we can only pray by ourself.
We believe the lies, we believe that people don't understand, some friends are gems and they do understand.
Someone I heard once talked about caring and loving, and using our story, one thing that she said, is, try to say, ''I know exactly what you'll be going through.'' no one knows exactly what you're going through, only if that person has had the same trials in life that they know, and they know how to help.
So my question is hard, and understand, how do you see God?
And do you see God, in what form in what way?
Do you see God, as not interested?
How did you find God, how did you find Christ?
Did you find, God because of pressure and not for yourself?
Finding God for who he is for you, and you know what?
I know it's cliche, but he sees all of it, and he see's what you hide, underneath.
The bits where it's too painful to share, to reach out.
You know there's a verses in the bible that if you feel like you've been crying all night joy comes in the morning.
It's quite a hard verse to stomach at times, but your joy is coming, and it comes with the promise of the sun raising in the day, giving you the opportunity, to live another day.
The sun doesn't just fall off the face of the earth, and says ''well I've had enough, i'm not going to come up tomorrow.'' The sun helps things to grow, and it also gives us vital vitamins so we don't lack anything.
That is what God is for us, he gives us things that we don't lack or in want of anything.
Sometimes we're in that "want stage", and sometimes we forget how we see God in all of this, you see, when we get out of ourselves, and what we want is different to what God wants, and it's all to do with serving, sometimes we need to get out of our needs and our desires, and focus on what God needs of us, someone said in worship the other day, that we come to God, wanting things all the time, but we should don't come with that expectation, we sometimes feel like we should buy from God. so that we get what we want from him.
This challenged me, on several levels, because I've always been in rush, and often my Christian life seems stale, and then it hit me, I've always wanted God to do something for me.
Thinking that I have the right to do so, but I don't, I've been so self centred, even though some people don't think so, I've only wanted to do things for myself and not for others.
And when you work in hospo, you're always serving, then you get into the mid set, 'This is only for myself.'' but it's also for a job, to get money, to be paid, but it doesn't take long for the shine to wear off.
This is how I saw God, I kept coming to him, with a mental list, of things wanting to line up, and fall into place, to sort of get a name for myself as it were.
I am and was, always jealous of people getting better jobs, and they just sort of got them, but what I didn't know was how long the wait was for them, I just wanted that, my prayers were often, ''Hey Lord it's me, you know that I really wanted this job, to be out of the sticky restless feeling, if you can just move that mountain that would be great, I would appraise it, so much.'' Amen.
You know, sometimes we feel like you can't just put our plans on hold, but we can, if you're too busy saying yes to everyone, or even like you should email that person straight away, making you feel urgent and all of that, it's not, it's putting things in perspective.
This urgency thing seems to be everywhere, and it all comes down to organisation, you shouldn't feel just because you're there, you should always rescue the person, just because well it's easy for them, for them to just ask you and call upon you, no matter what they say, or how they say it.
It shouldn't always be you to the rescue, to save them out of every situation.
Sometimes God works in the desert places, in those times of rest, so if you're in that time, enjoy it, and I know, what it's like when you've been given that desert place of rest and you want to be busy.
But enjoy it, because chances are that things will start to go wild, and you'll be wanting to go back to the desert place of rest.
Give everything a go in moderation, and if you have plans, do them, don't sacrifice or throw away your confidence, to rescue other people, know who you are in Christ, where you want to go, and seek the lord, and if you struggle with that, and find it hard to do it on your own, ask your Godly mentor, one that knows you, well, and one that helps you with good and godly advice.
Because good advice gets blurred, and becomes grey in black and white situations.
Chloe
This challenged me, on several levels, because I've always been in rush, and often my Christian life seems stale, and then it hit me, I've always wanted God to do something for me.
Thinking that I have the right to do so, but I don't, I've been so self centred, even though some people don't think so, I've only wanted to do things for myself and not for others.
And when you work in hospo, you're always serving, then you get into the mid set, 'This is only for myself.'' but it's also for a job, to get money, to be paid, but it doesn't take long for the shine to wear off.
This is how I saw God, I kept coming to him, with a mental list, of things wanting to line up, and fall into place, to sort of get a name for myself as it were.
I am and was, always jealous of people getting better jobs, and they just sort of got them, but what I didn't know was how long the wait was for them, I just wanted that, my prayers were often, ''Hey Lord it's me, you know that I really wanted this job, to be out of the sticky restless feeling, if you can just move that mountain that would be great, I would appraise it, so much.'' Amen.
You know, sometimes we feel like you can't just put our plans on hold, but we can, if you're too busy saying yes to everyone, or even like you should email that person straight away, making you feel urgent and all of that, it's not, it's putting things in perspective.
This urgency thing seems to be everywhere, and it all comes down to organisation, you shouldn't feel just because you're there, you should always rescue the person, just because well it's easy for them, for them to just ask you and call upon you, no matter what they say, or how they say it.
It shouldn't always be you to the rescue, to save them out of every situation.
Sometimes God works in the desert places, in those times of rest, so if you're in that time, enjoy it, and I know, what it's like when you've been given that desert place of rest and you want to be busy.
But enjoy it, because chances are that things will start to go wild, and you'll be wanting to go back to the desert place of rest.
Give everything a go in moderation, and if you have plans, do them, don't sacrifice or throw away your confidence, to rescue other people, know who you are in Christ, where you want to go, and seek the lord, and if you struggle with that, and find it hard to do it on your own, ask your Godly mentor, one that knows you, well, and one that helps you with good and godly advice.
Because good advice gets blurred, and becomes grey in black and white situations.
Chloe
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