When it doesn’t make sense……

Most times we face situations in life that makes the mind wonder "was God really aware" that this was going to happen?

We get into some difficult and heart-breaking situations, which makes us wonder whether “does God truly care”?? Yes he does!

I had a terrible encounter where I knew people would actually wonder whether what I preached made sense. How could I preach that scripture says "None shall cast their young" but still I lost a pregnancy. For another person, it might have been easier to receive counseling and sympathies after all they had not been preaching to a childless neighbor a few weeks back about how God loves her and made her fruitful, and that she shouldn't fear deaths or miscarriage because that is not what God said in His word.

It was a dark moment of despair. At the point of losing a child or loved one, it all doesn't make sense and something always doesn't add up, especially when you have prayed (got the church community to pray with you) believed, decreed and understood that such evil will never befall you.

Now the question is, did you not pray enough? Did you not believe? Of course you did, but then I came to understand that I had to let God be God!!! I realized that I might not understand all that happens or why He allows certain things come to be, but my duty is to do what am instructed in the scripture and let him be God! Again, I understood that when it made NO SENSE at all, l either let frustrations and depression rule over me or I choose to TRUST that He knew me before I was born and He has a plan for me that is greater than anything I can ever imagine.

The lady I preached to must have wondered why It happened to me. Even I could not comprehend that either. I also cannot fathom why God let's bad things happen to good people. But I choose to TRUST Him when in the wilderness; I choose to trust Him even when it all doesn't add up and when all my senses are screaming at me to do the opposite of what He is telling me.

The enemy has one motive; "To steal, kill and destroy"!!! Even if God lets him destroy everything around you, don't let him destroy YOU!!! God is in charge even when the storms rages highest, learn to trust God completely even when it doesn't make sense. I wonder how the Israelites would have felt in front of the red seas when Moses told them to stand still…

 Learn to TRUST God and hold onto your faith even when all doesn't make sense. 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Fruitful Sisters, 26th January 2016

Can you find an unconventional way to bring the burdens and the burdened to Jesus?

Key Scripture:
Luke 5: 17-26 [NKJV]
"17 Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord waspresent to heal them.
18 Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him.
19 And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus.
20 When He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
25 Immediately he rose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today!”

Have you ever felt like the ‘crowds’ of life are keeping you from a deep, intimate and healing encounter with Jesus? Do you feel like the friend on the mat some days just wanting to get to Jesus? Could you be a friend who can help others get to Jesus? Many of us have had struggles in different areas; those lessons learned could help somebody who is in the midst of a similar struggle right now.

This year, why don't you create a safe space to share.  A place of Prayer, Praise and the Personal; where the personal includes growth, testimonies, advice, encouragement and relationships. Start A fellowship for the many and for the one; if one person has a burden then we all can help either in prayer or for those who have had experience in that area, with the giving of advice.

Luke 5: 20 [NIV]
20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”

In the natural, that was the first time Jesus was meeting that man, yet He called him friend. We may not know each other in the natural but because we know and have a relationship with the Savior we are friends, sisters even, united by our big brother Jesus.

That's who we are as Fruitful Sisters.

Can you, like those friends, find an unconventional way to bring the burdens and the burdened to Jesus?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Fruitful Sisters, 11th January 2016