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You Will Deliver
You are in a fight to win. What does it mean for a servant of God to fight when you want to quit? What happens when you feel a sense of loss and abandonment? You may even question if this is your fight. Imagine approaching a river, only to find another dry resource. Or opening a cupboard and it is bare. These are examples that can make anyone feel empty like the riverbed and cupboard. The answer is – you cannot quit. Why? A servant leader’s fight is not his own. As my friend, Stacey, so often remind us, “It is challenging, but it is durable.”
Chosen Vessels For the Win
Jeremiah, as a young boy, is one example of being selected for a particular fight at a specific season for a particular people. Although young and inexperienced for this task, God chose Jeremiah before he was in the belly of his mother (Jeremiah 1:4-5). God set Jeremiah apart. He set you apart too.
The journey as a servant of God is not a comfortable one. Yet, as a chosen vessel, you must walk by faith. Why? Chosen people realize that they are in need of a greater power. For example, you can be thrown into the fiery furnace (Daniel 3:17-19); cast into the lion’s den (Daniel 6:9-17); and bruised unjustly (Isaiah 53:4-5). It takes faith in the Creator who knew you before you were placed in your mother’s womb. He is the One to bring you through the fire and out of the lion’s den.
A Winning Circle
It is an incredible circle of people. God’s purpose to use people in extreme circumstances is more about building up. Tearing down, plucking out, and destroying yokes will test you. Yet, it is not impossible. God is able to bring you out with more. God will do more than you can imagine. He spoke to Abram in a dream.
“As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a terrifying darkness came down over him. Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years. But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end, they will come away with great wealth.”
At the time that God spoke these words to Abram, he was in a strange land, with only his faith in God and a promise of God’s blessing (Genesis 15:6). God is bigger than your problem too. God said to Abram, “Abram…This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of nations! What’s more, I am changing your name. It will no longer be Abram. Instead, you will be called Abraham, for you will be the father of many nations. I will make you extremely fruitful.”
Expect the Promise of Winning
The key to your success is to keep your focus on the Promise Keeper – Creator of the heavens and earth. God’s blessing on your life will bless others. His purposeful blessing for you will bring others to Christ. God is your Provider; He is the bread of life. and the resurrection. What seems dead, will live with Him. He will not neglect the needs and favor of His chosen people.
The Promise Keeper is in the circle with you. He surrounds you. Yes, the Great and Good Shepherd, feeds His sheep. So, it is in the darkest times that our faith is the most challenging. The enemy is against you because of your faith in God. In the end, your challenge will propel you -not sink you into that river.
Isaish 43:1-3a, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine. When you pass through the water, I will be with you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned.” For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world (John 6:33).
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24). Expect a shift in your circumstance by God because of your faith. For more blogs like this one, we suggest:
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