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If there is one thing I hear often from people who are on there way to restoration in their lives, is “but look at everything I have lost!” You know what? It’s very common to think this way. It’s our natural tendency to look at what we have lost due to tragic upbringings, traumatic experiences, loss, grief, pain, etc. But I will guarantee you that every time you choose to dwell and look at what you don’t have anymore, it’s very hard to value what you do have, and what God wants for your future. Some even say, “I had my chance, I blew it.” “I had all those years to turn back to God and start over, and I didn’t, there is no hope.” So now what? Whatever you believe will become your truth even if it’s a lie. That’s why God tells us to hear the word continually, stay in fellowship with believers, have a constant discipleship, so that when your mind starts to go astray to what you lost, the Holy Spirit can show you what you have, and where you are going. I heard Bishop T.D. Jakes say in one of his sermons, “God will not use the dead things in your life to bring you out, but what you have left.” He uses what you have, and meets you where you are. We have to look forward and have a confident expectation that God is and can come through for you in any and all situations.
The awesome thing about loss, yes, I said awesome. Is that no loss in our life can ever take away our faith. Our confident belief that God can and will do for us in the supernatural, what in the natural seems impossible. Believe it or not we choose to walk away from God, it’s not our situations that cause us to walk away. Does our situation have an effect on how we view our victory yes, it does. That’s why hearing God’s word is necessary to stay in faith, it will propel you forward while your circumstances want to keep you right where you are…sometimes that’s no where. So often we submit, and surrender to our hard times of suffering. When God is standing there in front of you with His arms open, asking you to give it to Him, submit to Him, surrender to Him. He is our way to an overcoming life of victory.
Job is such a good example of how we can let our past pain affect our future, but with wisdom and understanding and submission to God after he couldn’t complain about one more thing, His spiritual eyes began to see what his natural eyes never would allow him to see. God loves him, and will take his pain, and restore his loss. Job listened to what God had to say, and immediately had a revelation that he had made a mistake in his grief. Job heard God, but he also saw God (Job42:5) through revelation of God’s word(His voice), His sovereignty and justice. Job repented of his bad attitude and acknowledged God’s infinite power. God made Job prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before (Job 42:10).
Whatever your situation, believe God can pull you through, but you must choose Him. He already chose you!
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