This devotional was written one day that I described as “overwhelming, underappreciated, and spent the majority of the day under the bus and out of control” I found eleven verses that were recommended to read when feeling overwhelmed. The following are my notes: Read: 2 Samuel 22:1-4 God is victorious, just as God has proven time and again to David and the Israelites that He is victorious. Life seems like one battle after another, but God is always my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. “He is my stronghold, my refuge, and my savior - from violent men you save me.” Read: Psalm 34:17-19 “The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; He delivers them from all their troubles.” When I am strongest in the Lord is when I seem to face the majority of my troubles. Instead of viewing my troubles as defeat and become overwhelmed by them, I should view them as victories because I know that I am truly strong in heart and will in My Lord, God. Satan tries the hardest for those who are strongest and is trying mighty hard right now. He will lose because I know where to turn and I know God will shield me and provide refuge for my soul. Read: Psalm 55:22 “Cast your cares to the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall.” I know that I am a strong, beautiful Christian woman. Nothing can tear me down that God can’t repair. when I want to fall into a messy heap of tears, it is God who stands me back up, sets me on my feet, kisses my boo-boos and makes me walk His path again. He will never let me fall from Grace, and I know He will always be there to catch me. Read: Psalm 147:2-3 God takes all people, even those who feel broken and wounded, but those who are broken, who have a wounded heart or mind must trust in God to heal their hearts. He is the only one who can do so completely. I’m feeling underappreciated and I refuse to let it show. I can hide it from all but God and when He sees it, He will mend it for me because “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Read: Isaiah 40:4-5 God was able to take and shape the very Earth by hand. he took all the rough spots and smoothed them into an even plain. Just as He has done this for the Earth, He will do this for the people on His Earth. Through Him, through making the rough spots plain, level, manageable, the glory of the Lord is revealed and all will know it. I know it to be true because my God spoke it, and He keeps all of His promises and prophecies. He promised me that it gets better, so I have to trust in Him to smooth out my rough spots, and when He does, I will shine for all to see. Through me, His glory will be seen and remembered. Read: Isaiah 40:26-31 “He gives strength to weary and increase the power of the weak...but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.” DON’T EVER GIVE UP!! God is bigger than all of my problems, and He will make a way if I will wait for Him. He sees my pain and my struggles and He will provide me the strength to fight, and to win. I just have to hope, I just have to know, I just have to believer and His power is my own. Read: Isaiah 41:10 “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Reading the “at issue” on fear for this passage in my devotional Bible says it all. We all harbor secret fears that we tuck away until life circumstances cause them to come forward and terrify us. It’s just Satan at work in my life, and he wants me to be scared away from my God. But God upholds me, His power is greater and stronger. His love for me has no limit, so no matter what happens to me in my life, God is on my side, and God is enough. He will protect me from the fears and provide me with the light. Read: Isaiah 42:16 I am blind in this situation. Quite literally. I don’t have the tools I need to do the jobs I’ve been tasked with to meet expectations I don’t even know by a man who is not on my same communication wavelength. No wonder I’m frustrated!! But God has done this before, He has lead the blind down unfamiliar and rocky paths. He has turned dark into light, the unfamiliar into familiar, the rocky into smooth. These are the things He has done, these are the things He will do for me. Read: Isaiah 55:11-12 God promises that everything has a purpose and every purpose will be fulfilled before it comes back to Him. I should go in joy knowing that whatever God’s plan is for me, it will be fulfilled and I will return to His Kingdom and Heaven, full, accomplished, joyous, and prosperous. I am the bud that will become a flower that will produce His fruit. ***Read: Jeremiah 29:10-14 “‘Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you, and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather the nations and places where I have banished you, and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile’” This may be a trial to build my character, it might be suffering to test my commitment to God, it might be the consequence for my sin, maybe it’s all of them. God is not going to give me any more than I can handle and not a second longer than I deserve. God is only out to bring the good in me out, and He will do it, I have faith and trust completely in Him. Read: 2 Corinthians 5:7 I do not know you, I have not seen your face, but I’ve met you. I know your love, I know your hope, and I know your faith.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:14:02 +0000
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