Stretched Faith Rises Upward
Even when we can’t see, or wrap our mind around something as we try to understand the ways of God, even so, we can trust God, we can surrender our need to know and trust in His Promises. When we let go and let God, He speaks His Peace into our soul emotions and our faith is stretched and strengthened in that way it can rise up to meet the challenge we are facing, God purposefully so.
I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don’t tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for me without quitting. Revelations 2:2-5
Why This? Why Now?
Recently, I was so upset with God. Why this? Why now? I don’t understand was the cry of my heart through my tears and peaceless soul. The more that I grappled with it to try to understand the why of it, the less peace I had. I got more and more frustrated and angry with God, and really bucked up my will… it did not end well… as bucking up your will against God’s will never does. When I finally came full circle around to face it again, with no understanding of it again, I knew I needed to wholly-holy yield to God… and in the surrendering, the standing down of my will, there was peace, God’s peace that surpasses all understanding. I don’t need to know. I need to trust.
This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep His commands and remain faithful to Jesus. Revelations 14:12 NIV
A Bucked Up Will
Have You Felt Mad And Angry At God? Sometimes things change suddenly and we don’t like it, so we buck up our will against God, we get mad and we hold up our hand. No! No! We hold up our hand in that “talk to the hand” mean spirited way. How foolish is that??!! We don’t want to hear from God! Our will is bucked up so high that nothing can get in. We will not move. God suddenly does something new and it doesn’t feel so good. So how does bucking up our will against God help us? It doesn’t! It makes things worse.
Beached Driftwood
Things were going so great and suddenly you feel like a piece of beached driftwood, cooking in the heat. Why? Lord Why? Why are you doing this? It makes no sense. This is extreme and I will not go through this. Been there and felt that, where suddenly things change and there is no way out of the heat. Surrender is the last thing we want to do, we want understanding, we want God to change it up, to get us out of the discomfort. We have strong feelings and they have taken over our common sense and we become irresponsible in our relationship with God, fleshing out our emotions. Listen up to this 1 minute encouragement video for great wisdom on this:
God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out, His merciful love couldn’t have dried up. They’re created new every morning. How great your faithfulness! I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over). He’s all I’ve got left. God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks. It’s a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God. It’s a good thing when you’re young to stick it out through the hard times. When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions: Wait for hope to appear. Don’t run from trouble. Take it full-face. The “worst” is never the worst. Lamentations 3:22-30 The Message Bible
Stuck In The Heat
When we first step into our sudden challenge, we don’t think it will be long term, we think things can’t get worse. But, many times God’s plan and purpose in the challenge we are facing, is not what we think we know. Sometimes, God leaves us right in the middle of the roaring heat and He asks us to grow through with Him. When a suddenly uncomfortable life season comes upon us, and severely challenges us, and God does not change it up, and there is no understanding, then surrender is the way to peace. Isn’t that an oxymoron kind of like, cruel kindness? It feels really cruel to start off with, but in the end, God’s endgame turns out to be full of kindness.
Surrender ~ An Oxymoron
No doubt about it, surrender is the way to growing through with peace. Been there and done it and known God’s peace that surpasses all understanding. Also know that some of the hardest things God has asked me to grow through, have been, in heavenly hindsight, the most valuable times of spiritual growth for me. Dig Deeper: http://thebridegroomscafe.com/live-responsible/
'“The people I love, I call to account—prod and correct and guide so that they’ll live at their best. Up on your feet, then! About face! Run after God!'
Revelation 3:19
The Next Right Choice
I still don’t like the life season I am in. I still don’t understand the why of it. I still feel like I am failing and flailing in my faith, yet I am learning to make the next right choice as I step out of my feelings, I bow face down before God and surrender. I bend my will to follow after God, to lean into His Sovereign sway. I will keep doing this until my feelings submit to my faith and my faith stretches to patiently wait and endure, grow through with God. So now when I ask God why, why this, why now? I hear the same answer: Be patient. I am grateful for the answer and I surrender to God, wholly-holy so and I pray to be so, to be like Him.
This is a call for the endurance and faithfulness of the holy believers—those who follow God’s commands and cling to the faith of Jesus. Revelations 14:12 TPT
'“And watch as I take those who call themselves true believers but are nothing of the kind, pretenders whose true membership is in the club of Satan—watch as I strip off their pretensions and they’re forced to acknowledge it’s you that I’ve loved. “Because you kept my Word in passionate patience, I’ll keep you safe in the time of testing that will be here soon, and all over the earth, every man, woman, and child put to the test. “I’m on my way; I’ll be there soon. Keep a tight grip on what you have so no one distracts you and steals your crown. “I’ll make each conqueror a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, a permanent position of honor. Then I’ll write names on you, the pillars: the Name of my God, the Name of God’s City—the new Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven—and my new Name. “Are your ears awake? Listen. Listen to the Wind Words, the Spirit blowing through the churches.”'
Revelation 3:9-13
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