Wow. What a question for this week. He has stolen a lot from me. My peace, my joy, my health.
We have made this trip back to our home state because there are still things that need to be done here. We are in the process now of doing some cleaning and getting ready to paint and maybe do a few other minor repairs so that we can sell our home.
And quite a feat it is at the ages we are now in our lives.
I had suffered some health problems starting a couple hours away from finally getting here the night we were still on the road. My husband had been driving straight through for hours. I won't try to go into what was going on with me, but let me tell you. It was something new to me and it was scary. I did find out what it was but it took at least the 24 hours after we got home to finally get over it. I kept praying for God to heal me, because coming in and looking again at what needs to be done here, did not help me at all. I had looked around and knowing I needed to get busy, I also knew that right at that time, it was not going to happen.
My peace had been stolen. For awhile any way. But....I am thankful that the enemy did not steal my sleep that next 24 hours. I was exhausted and needed it and God did get me through it so that my body had time to heal.
I didn't really get any energy back though, and felt out of sorts in trying to do some things yesterday. I had to finally give up. It wasn't until early this morning that I realized that we need a plan to forge ahead on getting this done.
My thoughts went back to the scripture in Hosea 4:6. My people perish for lack of knowledge. I had decided that this situation was not going to kill me if I didn't have a plan. Perhaps ulcers, but not kill me.
But then I read it in the KJV and it says: My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.
Ah. Maybe that means something a little different. We needed an updated plan to get these things we are dealing with on the move to go ahead. If we don't ask God for a plan, it could surely give us ulcers. Or it could destroy us if we let it. It could cause us so much stress that it would destroy our minds or health or even our marriage.
A little radical maybe? Not for me. I could see any of those things happening because we have been under tremendous stress and if we let them by not having God's plan, any of those have the potential for being. And it is because we have let Satan steal them from us.
So I am asking God for his plans and also asking those I trust to pray for us in being able to execute them according to his will. Because I do not want to ever have to go through again, what I went through just a few short days ago. And with that, I have gotten a lot of peace back that Satan had stolen.
What has Satan stolen from you? Your home? Your job? Your family? Any of your blessings? He will if you let him. And it is never pretty when he does. But God is ready to restore them to you when you ask. If you ask his will and know that he will do it in his time. He will do it. Because his word says he will.
August 4, 2019 Promise: Therefore I tell you, whatever you have asked for in prayer believe you have received it and it will be yours. Mark 11:24
Thanks for coming by Friends. Have a blessed LORD'S Day!
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