May 20, 2020
The face you see in this picture is the face of Triumph!
Thank you, Jesus
Faith Under Pressure
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So, don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work, so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.
James 1:2-4 MSG
How are you going to respond to the cross you have to bear today?
How will you respond to what you are going through today?
We were asked those questions on the prayer line this week.
When I was a baby, my father left.
At the age of 4, I lost my mother to cancer.
At the age of 12, I lost one of the good men in my life, my grandfather.
Somewhere during those years, I was abused by a family friend. (I told no one)
In 2000 my grandmother, who raised me, passed.
In 2002 my mother-in-love passed.
In 2007 I lost my auntie, who helped raised me.
In 2015 I lost my uncle, who was like a dad to me passed.
In 2016 I became a widow after 29 years of marriage at the age of 50.
At this point, I thought I was going to lose my mind, because what was my reason to go on. I kept thinking I had lost everyone in my life that I could depend on and who loved me. I felt alone and defeated.
BUT I WAS NOT…
Sometime, somehow in my life, Jesus deeply rooted his power deep within my soul because he knew that I would need to access that power one day.
When I look back over my life after all the loss, abuse, devastation, I was never alone because God was always with me. I had to tap into the power that was rooted in my soul so many years ago. I triumph and was not defeated because I had reconnected to Jesus.
I don’t know how people live through pain and tragedy without Jesus.
Here we are today morning as a nation with the entire world.
How will you react? How will you survive? How will you existent?
Will you allow yourself to wallow in self-pity, disappointment, fear, or defeatism?
OR
Will you choose to live in expectation, victory, success, rejoicing, and praising?
You tell me, will you live in triumph or defeat?
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ
2nd Corinthians 2:14
I love you all!
Be Blessed in the Lord!
Blessing in the Storm 