Wilderness Testimonies?

[Butterfly08]

Thanks for keeping this thread alive, ladies.

Thanksgiving was wrought with trials. The devil is liar.

^^^Yeah, I didn't even respond because I didn't want to be the lone storm cloud in the midst of sunshine but although I enjoyed my family and time off, I received 2 more HUGE pieces of devastating news. This after I TOLD God I can't take any more heartbreak. I went from being on cloud 9 from an awesome opportunity to all the way in the dumps. Seriously. I even told my pastor I'm done with God AND church because God has done NOTHING to rescue me. We're gonna talk tomorrow so we'll see.

I won't go into details yet, I'll see how things shape up over the next week before I talk about it. But talk about below the belt, yeah, that's exactly where I got hit twice during my "holiday". Right for the jugular.

I hope everyone else had an enjoyable time.

 

[LifeafterLHCF]

Thanksgiving is always a bad time for me but I made the best of it..God put in me situations that had me seeing thing I didn't want to...I wonder does one ever get out of the pain and wilderness

 

[loolalooh]

^^^Yeah, I didn't even respond because I didn't want to be the lone storm cloud in the midst of sunshine but although I enjoyed my family and time off, I received 2 more HUGE pieces of devastating news. This after I TOLD God I can't take any more heartbreak. I went from being on cloud 9 from an awesome opportunity to all the way in the dumps. Seriously. I even told my pastor I'm done with God AND church because God has done NOTHING to rescue me. We're gonna talk tomorrow so we'll see.

I won't go into details yet, I'll see how things shape up over the next week before I talk about it. But talk about below the belt, yeah, that's exactly where I got hit twice during my "holiday". Right for the jugular.

I hope everyone else had an enjoyable time.

Please do keep us posted. You're in my prayers.

 

[loolalooh]

Thanksgiving is always a bad time for me but I made the best of it..God put in me situations that had me seeing thing I didn't want to...I wonder does one ever get out of the pain and wilderness

I want to believe that one does. Let us all stay strong a little while longer.

 

[loolalooh]

Hey ladies. How's everyone doing?

Just when I thought my wilderness was ending, it's almost like it just went to the next level instead. I'll have a better idea come this weekend, but for now I'm trying to hang on. The other day I was so mad that I put away my Bible, spiritual books, etc. I had been crying out to God to speak to me on something and wasn't hearing anything. In the process of burying my Bible and stuff, I stumbled up a prayer journal I hadn't seen in months. I read through the list and saw prayers that I had marked as answered as well as examples of how I felt His presence in my life. (Perhaps this was Him speaking to me?) There's another thing I saw, which may have very well answered my initial question to Him, but I will reserve comment on that until this weekend. I hear something telling me to hold on just a little longer ... so I will. I'm hoping it's God.

"Show Yourself Strong" O' Lord. Don't let me down. Do You know how many people's jaws will drop if You perform this miracle? Don't make me look like I've been a fool this whole time. I cannot see why You would withhold this "promise" seeing as it will draw others (and myself) closer to You. Anything and everything is possible through You ... so "show Yourself strong".

I'll keep y'all posted.

 

[aribell]

This thread is so heartfelt and interesting and hopeful.

Listen well my friend: Satan can stop our destiny if we accept the power of disappointment into our lives. Once we accept the heaviness of a deep dis-appointment, backsliding is often not far away. You see, dis-appointment cuts us off from our vision, and without a vision people perish.

Are you carrying disappointment in your heart? Renounce it. Forgive those who have let you down. Have you personally or morally failed? Repent deeply and return to your Redeemer. Holy Spirit, I ask You to remove from my brother and sister the paralyzing sting of disappointment!

Beloved, the Spirit of God has come to release you of the effect of the dis-appointment. He reminds you, your appointment with your destiny is still set.

Francis Frangipane
Ministries of Francis Frangipane
Email: francis1Frangipane.org

The power of disappointment to take us off of our due course is so real. I have experienced this, and sometimes it won't be enough to just "chin up," it won't be enough to read a Psalm or listen to some encouraging praise music. In fact, when in a state of serious disappointment, turning to those things might only work to make one more cynical and embittered.

At the same time, sometimes we don't know the closeness of the Lord until we attempt to walk away from Him. When the many multitudes left Jesus because of His hard sayings, He asked the apostles if they too, would leave. And Peter said, "Lord, to whom shall we go? For You have the words of eternal life." There is nowhere to go outside of Him. Anyone who has walked with the Lord genuinely closely will find that the world hurts and disappoints with ten times the quickness that we *think* the Lord does.

Job said, "Though He strike me, yet will I trust Him." Job held the Lord responsible for his pain, and yet trusted Him still. That is faith in the absolute goodness and righteousness of the Lord, regardless of the way that things appear. I have repeated Job's words to myself multiple times today.
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I was in a wilderness for 7 years. Yes, 7. I like to think of it more as a spiritual winter. Everything was dark and quiet, little signs of life. Like it was mentioned upthread, I knew the seasons were changing because I was told that it was so. Things are in thaw. If there's anything that I can say, it's that a lot of times it takes a heck of a lot longer than we would ever think or expect. You simply cannot rush the work or the appointed time, anymore than you can rush the growth of a tree. Accept the season that you're in and learn what it means to be there. Otherwise you'll make yourself absolutely miserable and make a lot of mistakes, which I can attest to.

Solomon was counted wise in part because he could perceive truths by observing nature. Everything on this earth happens in its due course. And things tend to happen kinda gradually. When transitioning from winter to spring, you don't just wake up one day with green grass and flowers everywhere. First the snow melts, the birds come back, the other animals come out, the crocuses pop up, followed by other flowers. By the time things are in full bloom and all the leaves are on the trees, it's time to transition into summer. The Lord is a Lord of process. You can't shortcut the process, you can only learn to work with it.

 

[Sashaa08]

"Show Yourself Strong" O' Lord. Don't let me down. Do You know how many people's jaws will drop if You perform this miracle? Don't make me look like I've been a fool this whole time. I cannot see why You would withhold this "promise" seeing as it will draw others (and myself) closer to You. Anything and everything is possible through You ... so "show Yourself strong".

Agreed and amen! I've spoken the exact same thing almost verbatim and I am convinced that God will keep His promises and will finish what He starts.

 

[Butterfly08]

This thread is so heartfelt and interesting and hopeful.



The power of disappointment to take us off of our due course is so real. I have experienced this, and sometimes it won't be enough to just "chin up," it won't be enough to read a Psalm or listen to some encouraging praise music. In fact, when in a state of serious disappointment, turning to those things might only work to make one more cynical and embittered.

At the same time, sometimes we don't know the closeness of the Lord until we attempt to walk away from Him. When the many multitudes left Jesus because of His hard sayings, He asked the apostles if they too, would leave. And Peter said, "Lord, to whom shall we go? For You have the words of eternal life." There is nowhere to go outside of Him. Anyone who has walked with the Lord genuinely closely will find that the world hurts and disappoints with ten times the quickness that we *think* the Lord does.

Job said, "Though He strike me, yet will I trust Him." Job held the Lord responsible for his pain, and yet trusted Him still. That is faith in the absolute goodness and righteousness of the Lord, regardless of the way that things appear. I have repeated Job's words to myself multiple times today.
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I was in a wilderness for 7 years. Yes, 7. I like to think of it more as a spiritual winter. Everything was dark and quiet, little signs of life. Like it was mentioned upthread, I knew the seasons were changing because I was told that it was so. Things are in thaw. If there's anything that I can say, it's that a lot of times it takes a heck of a lot longer than we would ever think or expect. You simply cannot rush the work or the appointed time, anymore than you can rush the growth of a tree. Accept the season that you're in and learn what it means to be there. Otherwise you'll make yourself absolutely miserable and make a lot of mistakes, which I can attest to.

Solomon was counted wise in part because he could perceive truths by observing nature. Everything on this earth happens in its due course. And things tend to happen kinda gradually. When transitioning from winter to spring, you don't just wake up one day with green grass and flowers everywhere. First the snow melts, the birds come back, the other animals come out, the crocuses pop up, followed by other flowers. By the time things are in full bloom and all the leaves are on the trees, it's time to transition into summer. The Lord is a Lord of process. You can't shortcut the process, you can only learn to work with it.

I agree with this post. Disappointment is so difficult to overcome. I feel now like I'm just about at my lowest point ever. Not only do past disappointments weigh me down but in only a week I have faced 3 of the most devastating disappointments in a long time. I am emotionally exhausted, too tired to even get angry. I just cried for most of the day, even though I was in a public place (airport - just tried to sit in the corner near a window and look away so others couldn't see). Couldn't hold the tears back because my situation seems so hopeless - at least it looks that way with my human eyes. Just a wall, obstacle, question mark or closed door everywhere I look.

A scripture came to me today, “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD” (Job 1:21).

I feel like this has been a taking season. I have no idea when it will end and restoration and giving will return. I don't think I can put into words the depth of the pain I am experiencing. But I am trying to find a praise in the midst of it.

 

[topsyturvy86]

I agree with this post. Disappointment is so difficult to overcome. I feel now like I'm just about at my lowest point ever. Not only do past disappointments weigh me down but in only a week I have faced 3 of the most devastating disappointments in a long time. I am emotionally exhausted, too tired to even get angry. I just cried for most of the day, even though I was in a public place (airport - just tried to sit in the corner near a window and look away so others couldn't see). Couldn't hold the tears back because my situation seems so hopeless - at least it looks that way with my human eyes. Just a wall, obstacle, question mark or closed door everywhere I look.

A scripture came to me today, “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD” (Job 1:21).

I feel like this has been a taking season. I have no idea when it will end and restoration and giving will return. I don't think I can put into words the depth of the pain I am experiencing. But I am trying to find a praise in the midst of it.

Butterfly Just to let you know that I have been there and completely inderstand what you mean and where you are right now. Totally. Just be strong and take heart sis. Take encouragement in the knowledge that even in this down time, God is with you. He promised He would never leave you nor forsake you. His heart is filled with thoughts about you and He see's your tears. "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day" (2 Corinthians 4:16). Life is seasonal and although this dark time seems like it's lasting forever, it will pass and you will enter into your beautiful season.

 

[Butterfly08]

^^Thank you, I appreciate your words. I am on my way out of this valley...

 

[Sarophina]

Hey Ladies or should I say sisters ,

I'm feelin totally encouraged by this thread. I'm a baby Christian. It's been just little over a year now. This past year I've been looking for a church home so I can meet like-minded people. I have finally settled on one but am still looking to make friends.

I've read a few of your testimonies and it seems like some of us share this in common. I tried to get in contact with old friends, esp. my old Christian friends and when I call its the wrong number :/. Well, things happen so I don't want to make assumptions but it has been hard because I have not been able to get reconnected with my old friends. I had to give up my best friend because we are unequally yoked and she constantly led me to turn back on my new life. It was God's will and I will not look back like Lot's wife.

But, right now I have nobody. My only good friend, I can't even get in contact with. I feel so embarrassed to have no friends. I live with my family and it's an ungodly household. I don't have anyone to get Christian advice from or to worship the beauty of the Lord with.
Tomorrow I'm going to Saturday church and I'm hoping to meet people. But, honestly my old life reappears before my eyes, and I remember the Christians who all turned on me. I've forgiven them, but it's hard for me to start again.

 

[LovingLady]

Welcome Sarophina,

I am sorry that are without physical Christian friends. but until God blesses you with Christians that you can interact with, He has bless you with us. The ladies here are amazing and extremely supportive. What I love about them is that they are extremely honest and they have very different personalities. It highlights how creative God is when he created us.

It is very easy to return to what is familiar to you, even if it is harmful to your well being, stay strong and ask God for his discernment. Whatever you need that is in God's will, ask for it in prayer, He is really great when it comes to providing for his children. :Rose:

 

[loolalooh]

I'm trying to ride a bit of hope today. How's it going, ladies?

 

[Highly Favored8]

I'm trying to ride a bit of hope today. How's it going, ladies?

It is cold outside. Feels a lot like Chirstmas. Just keep on praying and trusting. I am also just letting go and Letting God. That is about all you can do. Still give God the praise and glory He is due. Even when we go through seasons we just do not understand. Just give God the Glory and Praise and trust that God is Working all for our good.

 

[Prudent1]

@Sarophina,
Hon, you said a mouthful when you said you were not going to look back like Lot's wife! Oh, if we could all learn to not look back but to press on and keep our eyes trained on God alone! Ladies, it would indeed seem as if many of us are going through right now. This is when the rubber meets the road. Put up or shut up time. We either believe or we don't in the sovereign God. As some of you know, I recently lost my DGS to SIDS at the age of 1 month. There are many types of pressures/tests all around us. However, we have the victory ladies, we do. Keep sending up those praises. Keep your heads up. We are in this together!

 

[Sarophina]

Welcome Sarophina,

I am sorry that are without physical Christian friends. but until God blesses you with Christians that you can interact with, He has bless you with us. The ladies here are amazing and extremely supportive. What I love about them is that they are extremely honest and they have very different personalities. It highlights how creative God is when he created us.

It is very easy to return to what is familiar to you, even if it is harmful to your well being, stay strong and ask God for his discernment. Whatever you need that is in God's will, ask for it in prayer, He is really great when it comes to providing for his children. :Rose:

Thanks! It's definitely been a blessing finding the longhaircareforum esp. this Christian fellowship section. I've seen myself in many of the postings.

I will def. keep on serving the most high. Just a stormy season, but I will praise him in advance. My situation isn't good but he is always good.

 

[Sarophina]

@Sarophina,
Hon, you said a mouthful when you said you were not going to look back like Lot's wife! Oh, if we could all learn to not look back but to press on and keep our eyes trained on God alone! Ladies, it would indeed seem as if many of us are going through right now. This is when the rubber meets the road. Put up or shut up time. We either believe or we don't in the sovereign God. As some of you know, I recently lost my DGS to SIDS at the age of 1 month. There are many types of pressures/tests all around us. However, we have the victory ladies, we do. Keep sending up those praises. Keep your heads up. We are in this together!

Prudent,

I don't think I have nearly enough heartache as losing someone brings. I'm so sorry that you lost your grandson. I'm sure the one thing that brings comfort is knowing that he is with his Father in the sweetest peace on the highest place. :big hugs:

 

[foxee]

I'm trying to ride a bit of hope today. How's it going, ladies?

Thanks for bumping this thread. I received a piece of unexpected news that I did not handle well at first, but I'm feeling better. I've been dialed into the prayer line since 11/24, sometimes calling twice a day.

I've also spent the last 2 Sundays visiting different churches and having a blast! Everyone has been so kind and the messages are just what I needed to hear . . . about surviving the wilderness, no doubt.

Right now I'm working on overcoming negative thoughts. I'm such a friendly, cheerful and encouraging person by nature, but sometimes when it comes to certain aspects of my life I can be too hard on myself. I've decided to turn things around for good this time.

 

[Butterfly08]

Ladies, I will reply to your messages later tonite as I am on my way to work, but I read the updates this morning and felt compelled to respond and let you all know where I have been this past week or so. I was going thru a lot but couldn't share it until some sort of resolution occurred.

I am 3 days from graduating with my MBA. I have worked on it PT while working FT, going thru a divorce, a move, etc. It has been TOUGH because I set high standards for myself with everything. I have been able to obtain a 3.8 GPA.

Recently I applied for a job with a top notch corporation. I was shocked when I made it through the testing and initial interview. They offered to fly me out for a final panel interview. I had already talked to my ex about leaving with our daughter once I graduate. (We have joint custody, against my will - but that was yet another battle I lost last year). He told me he would think about it instead of his usual NO. So I held out some hope. I soooooooooo want to get home to my family and friends, I feel like I have no support here. I've been here over half my life and gave up everything for a marriage that was torture and pain 95% of the time.

Anyway, once I found out I was selected for a final interview, I brought up the subject again. This time, he immediately said NO. It was like he was waiting for me to get an opportunity only to be able to snatch it away. (This is his pattern, it's too long to even get into).

I cried and cried, heartbroken, but the company had already paid for my flight and hotel so I went. If I got the job, it more than doubled my current salary, would pay to relocate me and would be more than enough to support me and my daughter even if I never got another dime from my ex.

I think all the stress I was going thru impacted my final interview (this was the week of finals, plus all the emotional stress). I didn't get the job. When I found out I was in a public place and couldn't hold back my tears. I felt like wow, what now? A week before graduation and I'm still here, exactly where I don't want to be, with no visible signs of leaving. 1.5 years of trusting in God and nothing. I felt like every speck of hope had been stolen.

As I was crying, a thought came "The Lord gives, and He takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." It took a little bit for me to grab ahold to that. My heart's bleeding prayers have gone unanswered. I am some place I despise (no friends here, longing to be near my family again). I don't see or understand the purpose for years of heartache and disappointment. I really don't understand. But something in me said to bless the Lord anyway. Don't give up faith in God. He cannot lie, He's working it out for my good.

I have continued to be tested. Over Thanksgiving I lost my MU bag with over $800 worth of products in in. During my trip for the interview I left behind my $225 Clarisonic brush, and of course housekeeping "didn't find it." It seemed like every day I have been getting news that makes me cry, during a time when I should be happy (graduation).

But I'm going to hold on to God - though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.

Hold on ladies, it's rough, BELIEVE me I know. But we can make it through together.

 

[p31woman]

I have just read this entire thread and I want to thank you ladies for being so honest and candid in your posts. I am going through something right now (career/financial stresses), and I'm not quite sure if its a test or if I'm in the wilderness but your responses and posts have reminded me of the truth.....God has NOT left me and He is not ignoring me.

Thank you for helping Him strengthen me.

I will keep each of you in my prayers.

 

[loolalooh]

I hope this comes out right, as I feel compelled to type this but must also rush to class ...

Ladies, it is comforting to hear about each of our trials in the sense that there is no reason we should cry out "WHY ME, LORD" ... for we are ALL facing something, not just you, or me, or you. This is just part of being Christian. The road is not easy and the devil is working NONSTOP to SHAKE OUR FAITH. I say this not just to you all but to myself, when I say let's try to remain IN FAITH. We should also realize that as our FAITH gets stronger, the BATTLE gets fiercer. The devil will try to attack your desires (for a job, husband, etc.), family, and your mind (Is God real?), but let's continue to encourage each other, keep on FIGHTING, and stay IN FAITH.

Psalm 32 (NIV)

1 Vindicate me, my God,
and plead my cause
against an unfaithful nation.
Rescue me from those who are
deceitful and wicked.
2 You are God my stronghold.
Why have you rejected me?
Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy?
3 Send me your light and your faithful care,
let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy mountain,
to the place where you dwell.
4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God, my joy and my delight.
I will praise you with the lyre,
O God, my God.
5 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.

 

[loolalooh]

This video was posted by Irresistable in Sidney's thread. Please watch:

Youtube - It Will Cost You Everything

"You need to way in on the COST FACTOR and count the COSTS of being a DISCIPLE of JESUS CHRIST. It will cost you popularity, it will cost you promotion, it will cost you an EASY LIFE. You will have to DISCIPLINE yourself, you will have to BUFFET your body, ... you will have to say NO to this WORLD .... you will have to be willing to stand ALONE for Christ. .....

You must take up a CROSS and follow ME, or you cannot be my DISCIPLE ... "

 

[OhmyKimB]

Hi guys.

Sorry I'm MIA I've been dealing with school.

I've really had enough, I'm ready to move on now....it just does seem like it's coming

 

[DreamLife]

This thread has really blessed me. I feel as though I've been in a wilderness for some years now...and I never expected to be here this long. In the beginning a lot was due to disobedience, wrong relationships, attitude problems,and pride. Then when I truly surrendered everything to God things kept going downhill fast...depression,loneliness, isolation, rejection, etc. I've had lots of ups and downs and victories that God has brought me through so I shouldn't be complaining, but I'm just burnt out from school. For the past few weeks I just said forget everything and I've been going through the motions - going to my job/school, pouring everything I have into taking care of and encouraging other people and then going home and staring at books and the wall. Not eating right, not working out. I've either missed church or I go and sit in the balcony and stare, read the Bible and listen to the sermon. I talk to my family and friends and fake it, laugh and joke and get off the phone and cry or go to sleep. I've just felt like I've been on a long road to nowhere. Many people would never understand why I feel the way I do, on the outside I look blessed, well I am blessed. Nonetheless, I'm trying to pull myself up, read the Bible even when I feel nothing and keep praying. I've been asking God for some energy, I just want to be able to cry out to God, but I can't even seem to do that right now. I think the weather and the holidays are making things worse for me as well, along with the fact that a VERY close family member died around the holidays last year.

I've been reading this thread and the frustrated Christian thread and it has helped. I need to reevaluate and realize that just because I have expected my life to be a certain way, it doesn't mean that its God's will for me to have this and that. For the past year or two, I have really been relinquishing this entitlement attitude that I didn't realize I had...like questioning God on things...like God why me? Why am I going through this? I feel like God has been teaching me and asking why not? Like I don't understand why I've been wired to think that I shouldn't have to go through this or that...when I surrendered to His will struggle was sure to go along with it, I just didn't know the extent at the time. I know my struggle is going to be for His glory and Ill come out with a greater testimony and greater victory in the end. I'm just not feeling it right now...To be honest and simple, I just want to get out of the valley for once. To stop being in a constant state of struggle, adversity...

When I was really into the Word daily and following the guidance of the Holy Spirit hour by hour I would ask God to give me an opportunity to minister to someone. One day a guy who was an acquaintance came up to me and asked me to talk to him about Jesus and that he wanted to meet me for lunch because he felt like I would have something substantial to say....what? I was SO nervous. I went home, prayed and asked God to give me the right things to say. When we met for lunch, he told me some horrible, horrible things that happened in his life that were very private and desperately wanted God to help him. I started telling him different Bible stories about how David and other men had been through things that he had been through but came out on top, as well as some of my wilderness experience that had occurred in the same time frame as his. So many scriptures were flying out of my mouth...scriptures I didn't even know I had memorized. I told him about forgiveness, salvation, everything I could think of. We sat and talked for about an hour and there was no silence. The night before I was so scared that it would be awkward and silent, but he was asking so many questions and I had Biblical answers that made him want to know more about God! He said that I had really blessed him and given him hope and some things to meditate on, and he said he was going to find his Bible and start reading some of the things I had told him about (he was raised Christian but said he didn't know much about what the Bible said). I went home and cried because I knew that without some of the experiences I had been through and staying in the Word I would not have been able to let God use me...that wilderness experience I had been through may have been to help him on that day and time, but at the time I had no idea that I would use what I had been through to help him (2 years later!)

But thanks everyone ...I've been a chronic lurker and you all are really blessing me by being open and sharing your stories.

 

[DreamLife]

Marvin Sapp - He Has His Hands On You
This song is good..

YouTube - He Has His Hands On You - Marvin Sapp

 

[Highly Favored8]

To the ladies we had a powerful word today at church. When we feel like nothing is going on in the wilderness. Just worship and praise the Lord until it comes to pass. Continue to thank God anyhow. The wilderness does not last for long/nor forever.

 

[loolalooh]

Something's been moving in the wilderness lately, but I can't tell what it is. Good or bad. God or the enemy. I just know that the second I blasted sermons galore, something happened. So I stopped. Then it stopped. I'll go back to blasting sermons galore. At the very least, God is with me.

 

[LovingLady]

Hi guys.

Sorry I'm MIA I've been dealing with school.

I've really had enough, I'm ready to move on now....it just does seem like it's coming

All of us are tired, frustrated, and long to be delivered. Don't give up it won't be long.

 

[Butterfly08]

Hey ladies!

A new year is almost upon us, and I'm declaring victory, peace and joy unspeakable over all our lives! Look up, our help comes from the Lord!

While I still don't have all that I have been praying for, one area has started to turn around for the positive, and certainly when I compare where I was THE SAME TIME last year, I am BLESSED!!! I was literally broke down, crying and completely done. Now I am rejoicing in God, despite a year full of disappointments. Because He IS good and He has everything under control, working it all out for my good.


Two key things I've learned this year:

1. My deliverance won't always come WHEN or HOW I think it should. So while it's good to plan, my steps are ordered by the Lord and His will and timing will prevail. I'm still learning how to trust Him through disappointments.
2. Sometimes the ONLY way we learn about God's love and faithfulness intimately is when we are in the fire. The 3 Hebrew boys trusted and believed in God enough to step in the fire, but His protection was not fully manifested until they were actually IN THE FIRE. I believe many of us are in the fire and wish it would hurry up and end. But this is where we will meet God and He will change our lives forever if we stop fighting and learn how to dance and praise in the fire.

What major lessons have you ladies learned in 2010?

 

[Highly Favored8]

Hey ladies!

A new year is almost upon us, and I'm declaring victory, peace and joy unspeakable over all our lives! Look up, our help comes from the Lord!

While I still don't have all that I have been praying for, one area has started to turn around for the positive, and certainly when I compare where I was THE SAME TIME last year, I am BLESSED!!! I was literally broke down, crying and completely done. Now I am rejoicing in God, despite a year full of disappointments. Because He IS good and He has everything under control, working it all out for my good.




Two key things I've learned this year:

1. My deliverance won't always come WHEN or HOW I think it should. So while it's good to plan, my steps are ordered by the Lord and His will and timing will prevail. I'm still learning how to trust Him through disappointments.
2. Sometimes the ONLY way we learn about God's love and faithfulness intimately is when we are in the fire. The 3 Hebrew boys trusted and believed in God enough to step in the fire, but His protection was not fully manifested until they were actually IN THE FIRE. I believe many of us are in the fire and wish it would hurry up and end. But this is where we will meet God and He will change our lives forever if we stop fighting and learn how to dance and praise in the fire.

What major lessons have you ladies learned in 2010?

The Lord always makes a way out of no way! All I have to do is just trust and beleive Him when I can't even trace him. That the Lord will bless me double for my trouble. Butterfly08 God has Proved/Showed Himself so strong in my life for 2010! I also have a better realtionship with Abba Father which is what He wants from all of us.

God is so Awesome even in my wilderness places the Lord has made a way for me and my family out of no way! Nobody but God! God is also the Father of the Midnight Hour and let me tell you just this week I cried to my Abba Father in the Midnight hour and The Lord Answered. I was like okay Lord. Girl, God showed up and you know what I did I got on my Knees and thank and Worshiped the Lord!!!! I love the Lord.. If you only knew my story. Abba Father is a one time God!