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Facing Giants

Have you ever faced a problem in your life and had the thought that it was just too big for you to conquer? I know I have. I know that I have seen some of the biggest trials that can be thrown my way and some days I wonder how I am going to make it. I wonder what it takes to get through these situations. I wonder what God has in store for me to be seeing such difficult times in life. 

I started to think about my situation as David did. David little bitty David killed his giant. David killed goliath with all the courage in the world and when he faced his giant he know the outcome before hand. Like most of us, David had seen so much in his entire life. He had previously fought Lions, and Bears and now facing yet another storm.  He was being equipped with all the armour of the King, yet he didn't want it. How many of us try to face our problems with more than we can carry? We try to defeat our problems in every which way except for the right way. How many of us know that is not what is needed.

God has equipped us with everything that we need in advance. Everything that we have gone through in our lives were just test for what God was preparing us for in our present. Everything that we go through is not something that is intended to stop us but it's intended for us to get through. A lot of people can't be put in the same situation that are placed in and come out with the same results that we see. We are victorious and are meant to be conqerours of all things..

God, thank you for making me a winner. I ask that you would continue to make me a giant killer. I know that you have given me everything that I need to defeat every giant that i face. I know with your unwavering favor that I will conquer and accomplish anything that is thrown my way. Thank you in advance for choosing me to be victorious. Amen.

1 Samuel 17:34-37

 34 But David persisted. “I have been taking care of my father’s sheep and goats,” he said. “When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock, 35 I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death. 36 I have done this to both lions and bears, and I’ll do it to this pagan Philistine, too, for he has defied the armies of the living God! 37 The LORD who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!”

As i sit back and think about life, I think about how much hell it can bring, but I also think about how much joy life brings us.

Have you ever thought about what life would be like if you looked at it and seen it the way that God sees you in it? Me, personally, I try to see life for all of the great things that it can bring now, and I try to envision everything that God has in store for me even if I don't see the end results right now. I have made a lot of mistakes, I have hurt a lot of people, yet God still loves me. I was hurt, I have been abused, I have been done dirty, and i have held grudges against people that i should have let go long ago, but yet God still forgives me. Have you ever imagined what your life would be like if you forgave yourself and forgave the people that have hurt you?  

Or am I the only one that is starting to see God for who he truly is? I know that life is not always the best to us, and it can really bear down us A LOT!! I could honestly say that when I wake up some days, I just don't feel like being alive. I just don't feel like doing anything with my life. I'm stressed, i'm burdened down, i'm emotional. And yet God still decided to breathe the breath of life into my body and give me an opportunity to make things right. Being jobless is not the best friend of a lot of people, I know I have been there! When you wonder where your next paycheck is going to come from, when you wonder where your next meal is going to come from? How long will it be before the rent man is going to kick you out of your place? How will your bills get paid? But yet God still says don't worry, don't get mad, don't get stressed about anything in life because I will take care of everything that you will ever need if you just belive in Me. But how hard is that? How hard is it to believe in God who we can not see but His presence is everywhere? The same God that woke us up early in the morning or whenever you woke up is the same God that will take care of every problem that you are facing, all you have to do is be faithful and patient. 

God, I'm losing my mind, I'm losing my family, I'm losing my friends, I just don't know how to hold on to anything like i used to. Why am I losing everything? You said that You would always provide for me and always be there for me! Yeah I know, that is where most of us stand at some point in our lives even if we don't admit it openly and publicly God still knows. But God says just call me "I Am" I am that I am!!! What did He mean when He said I am? I am everything that you may ever need. I am your doctor, I am your provider. I am your caregiver. I am your way out of no way. I am the reason that you have life. I am the reason that you live. I died so that you may have life and life more abundantly. I am Everything that you could ever think of and more than that. God said that He can do Exceedingly, Abundantly above all that you can Ask or even think! 

He's Able!! God is able to surpass any problem that we are facing in our lives right now. He is able to bring you out of any hole that you are in or have gotten yourself in. As long as you are still breathing then you have beengiven another opportunity to make life Great as God said it is. As long as you are here, you have a chance. There is nobody that will ever separate you from the love of God.

If we are worth dying for, then He is worth living for. I may be broke, busted and disgusting. No job, No friends, No family, No money, a bad person, with a bad attitude, a liar, a thief whatever it may be but God still thinks that we are worth dying for. Everything that we are facing now God has already completed He has already taken our struggle away, our pain away. We just have to choose to make life exactly What God has promised us because His Promises are still Alive..

I pray that whatever you may see in your life that you realize that you have yet to see the best of your life. The best is yet to come, remember that always

ERW

Not Easily Broken: 

Wow as i was thinking about this and the title of what I would name this, It reminds me of myself and so many other people that may be going through situations and trials, storms or whatever test you may be facing right now... This message is geared to help you.. Remember that you never have to be submissive to your struggles... God has already given you the resources to get through every situation you have seen..

My advice to you all in these situations is remember who you are hurting and feeling like there is no where to go. I started to realize over the last few weeks that I am still living, and I haven't been through as much as most people have. But i am living and I am living well, very healthy for the most part, 4 broken legs, a car wreck that flipped 8 times that could have taken my life, a lot of bad decisions.. But God... God will allow us to bruise, bend, and stretch but he never allows us to break.

One thing i can say about a lot of our situations is that Life goes on, I know it may take a while and I know you may hurt for a while, but one thing to remember is that life goes on. My favorite thought about the situations is Not Easily Broken. I have been hurt in the past before and you always have to look at yourself and your life and not allow your spirit to be broken by the situation, don't allow your character to be broken by the situation, don't even allow your heart to be broken. Yeah you might say how is this possible? Well a bruise hurts!!! No one ever said that you wouldn't bruise, but a bruise is so much easier to care for than completely being broken..

i have come to realize those people that are broken completely shut themselves off from everything that they once knew especially in a woman's case she will completely shut the world down around her. And that's not good for your health. There are many people that are out there that try to break you on purpose, they try to ruin everything that there is about you, your name your life your character everything that you are, they will try to ruin, they will put you at your lowest of lows and think that they have you. But you can't allow yourself to be broken.

An example just an example is Jesus Christ himself, this man endured more pain than anybody in this world could ever imagine but he never allowed them to break him. All the bruises that he had he never allowed himself to be broken, you could almost not recognize him but he was not broken. SO much can be learned from this lesson.

Apples bruise but they can easily be repaired, just cut back the bruises and they are perfectly fine. You're body can be bruised but it heals with almost no sign of pain ever being there. A broken bone will never heal back the same way that it was before it was broken, some are held up by screws some just dont grow back in right, but you will always know that it was broken..

One thing I am continuing to learn is that the things in life we go for are test.. I'm learning that you can't have a testimony without first having a test. We can't be elevated to the next level in our faith, our blessings, our gifts without first showing faithfulness and showing strenght. We never realize that 99% of us are either going into a storm, in a storm, or coming out of a storm. THe best thing to do is to learn how to dance in the rain, because when you can't go over the best option that you have is going through. But you have to learn how to give thanks in all things and give praise in all things. Dear God, I know i do not have this, I know I am going through this, I know i see this, but Thank You. Thank you For everything...

Sorry this note was so long but so much on my mind right now and I just want to let anybody out there know, SMILE like its all you know how to do, don't hide the pain but allow yourself to heal, allow someone to help you heal, allow someone to care for the bruises and bring all the functionality of your life and heart back to a completely restored place. this is all

Dear God, I love you, I thank you. I just want you to know that for once I am not asking you for anything, all i want to do is say Thank you.

Emmanuel Rashad

P.S.A- Stop allowing people think that they have rule over your life and over your situation, own and copyright everything that you are, because we are a strong people and no one can break us but ourselves, you can bruise me but you can't break me