Most times we are weighed down by the struggles of this life. It seems like the more you pray, the more things become difficult. It feels like God isn’t seeing your holiness, your righteousness, talk less of your services for the kingdom. I got good news for you:
Hebrews 12:6-8(NKJV) 6 “For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.”
Read verse 8 again… O yes, you are illegitimate if you do not face these challenges.
Like Jacob you are pregnant with a nation called Israel, but God has to wrestle with you in order to prepare you for that assignment.
Genesis 32:24 says ‘So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.’
God who knows the end from the beginning, He knew Jacob was pregnant with a great nation but yet this same Jacob was a fraudster. If you doubt it, ask brother Esau what happened to his birthright and uncle Laban what happened to his flock. God had to refine him from all of these mess. Whenever God wants to deal with a man who is pregnant with nations, he separates him from the crowd, so he can wrestle with what is not of Him in such a person. Remember, God had to separate Abraham from Lot too.
Bible says God wrestled with Jacob till day dawn and it was at that time Jacob realized he had been wrestling with God. Do you know, Jacob would not have gotten a broken hip if he surrendered to God earlier? That is exactly how many of us are. We wrestle with so many things we should have led God have His way and at the end we end up with broken ‘hips’. Bible says Jacob said “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” Ohh yes God changed his name to Israel because He had refined him. Brethren, do not let God humble you before blessing you because there will be an evidence of a broken hip. God was working humility in Jacob. If only Jacob knew, he would have submitted earlier.
So brethren, if your friends suddenly desert you for no fault of yours, be sensitive of the season. God is about to deal with some things concerning you for a higher level. God does not work with the crowd but with ‘remnants’ . Maybe you were disappointed with so many things this 2018 but it was all a season of refining.
That situation you are in, God is working out some issues that may hinder the greater height He has for you in 2019. What will determine how fast you get out of that situation, is how fast you are able and willing to learn what he is teaching you. God is an intentional God, when it seems like He is not doing something, He is actually doing something by not doing something. Read that last sentence again still you get it. Be strong, be encouraged, you carry generations in you. You are the perfect version of you. Aahhhh!!! you are worth the Priceless Blood of Jesus Christ, ONLY Begotten Son of God.
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