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Our Afflictions!

As I spent time with God this morning, I realized there are so many lessons for us to learn during this time. If you take time to look back on your life how many afflictions can you count or even remember. I believe in each of our lives we are confronted with those things that come to steal our joy, our victories and even our breath. In this world, as His beloved we can experience these physically, emotionally and spiritually. What is an Affliction? anything that causes pain or suffering. This can be from a wound to an emotional scar. A memory that attacks the pureness of your soul.

This disease is a reminder of what the Evil one desires for us. To be in isolation and away from our loved ones. To create fear and hysteria to the point where believers turn to their afflictions. A lot of time that is the truth we hold onto because it is in the pain or hysteria we can feel. However, Christ showed us by example how to be isolated. His most intimate times came when it was just Him and God. You see our afflictions push us to handle things our way. That knee jerk reaction or that numbing action that we choose to get away from reality. God says come to me and spend time with me and TRUST in me. He does not say we will go without battles but rather he will be with us in those battles. We will not face anything alone.

My friends, God has seen each of our afflictions, He knows every detail, yet He refuses to turn us over to the enemy. He wants you to give him those things that cause your pain and suffering, your doubts and fears. He is and will always be a place of Refuge, but He is also a Fortress. He will FIGHT for you with all of who He is because you are His Beloved. TRUST HIM and allow Him to give you peace in these uncharted times of this World. Remember, He, who is in you, is greater than he who is in this World!!!

Amen!!

One Love, One king, All Christ!

To Live in Fear or Faith

Our everyday has been stripped from us
by a pestilence that has no prejudice
The darkness is all we can seem to discuss
It has become the World’s emphasis

Fear is the first feeling we turn to
When we realized this plague is real
As if it planned this worldly coup
Then we remembered to simply kneel

God’s promise is with us He shall be
In the depth and strength of the storm
There will be pain and death we shall see
As we watch our World transform

However, there is freedom in this shadow
Even though our fate seems so deathly grim
Just as true as His promise in the rainbow
God says of you, I will rescue, protect and deliver him

The World has nowhere else to turn
Rather It is God in Heaven that we need
We are of his utmost loving concern
All He asks of us is Faith of a mustard seed

When fear attacks remember God protects
It desires for us to be completely crushed
For His Beloved, however He Never rejects
We say, “He is my refuge and my Fortress, my God, in whom I trust!”

One Love, One King All Christ