Can You Relate?
Pastor Sue
Pearl of Great Price Tabernacle
Are you facing a battle, a hard trial, circumstances you can’t control, situations that need to stop, trouble on every side? Do you feel like your drowning in the waters of life?
Are you having a Job experience, like your losing everything?
Or Daniel, like you’ve been thrown to hungry lions? Or even Joseph, betrayed, rejected, sold out, lied on. How about the Hebrew boys, like the furnace has been turned up full blast, awaiting your arrival! What about Jeremiah, the prophet no one wanted to listen to, because the Word of the Lord rubs them the wrong way,, then there’s David, a man who had to face a giant maybe 5 times bigger than him! Are you having some of these same troubles and trials? Can your life relate to theirs and many more Saints of ancient times?
If so, then take a look at their outcome, read about their experiences, and their victories.
Read how they overcame adversity, and how God fought for them. How God seen them through, protected them, helped them, brought deliverance. They weren’t perfect, they got discouraged at times, overwhelmed, ran for their life, hid in caves, lost so many things, but they stood in faith, trusting in God and his faithfulness, and their latter end proved it.
You may be going through the same thing some of them faced, just in a different way in today’s world, but read how God brought them through dark waters, through fires, battles, attacks of the enemies. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But God delivers us out of them all!
Isaiah 43:2; (paraphrasing) When you are going through the water, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they won’t carry you off, when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon you….Look at God’s promise!
God’s promise isn’t just for Israel, or the Old Testament Saints, He knew there would be a New Covenant in the blood of Jesus. He knew everyone under this New Covenant would need his salvation, his healing power, his deliverance, his help and strength. The promises of God are for all his children, both Jew and Gentile.
Whatever you are experiencing, someone else has already been through it, look at their latter end, see what God did for them, and trust God to do the same for you. He is no respecter of persons.
Psalm 31:24; Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.
Psalm 34:17; The Righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Psalm 46:1; God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
Psalm 55:22; Cast your burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain you, He shall never allow the Righteous to be removed.
Someone has already been through what you are facing now, be encouraged, stay hopeful, remain faithful, God has you covered.
God bless.