Its been so long since I have written something like this, but I truly feel led by the Holy Spirit...I know this is for me and I hope and pray that the Lord will use this to bless someone else:
"Tell him to stop worrying. Tell him he doesnt need to fear the fierce anger of those two burned-out embers, King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah. Yes, the kings of Syria and Israel are plotting against him saying, 'We will attack Judah and capture it for ourselves. Then we will install the son of Tabeel as Judah's king. BUT this is what the SOVEREIGN Lord says: 'This invasion will never happen, it will never take place.'" Isaish 7:4-7
As I have decided to start going through the book of Isaish and how I have been praying that the Lord would speak to me by the power of His Holy Spirit...these verses were illumuniated to me this morning and I felt compelled to write. In life sometimes especially for the Christian, things dont make sense and people will come against us and thier arugements will make sense. I know that in my own life, I have found this to be so true. When I moved from CA to NY, before I came here, it didnt look like it was going to happen....there were so many obstacles in my way. My own blood family members were telling me to give up on my dream because there was no way for it to happen and I just needed to accept that sometimes things just dont happen the way that we want them to. There was wisdom in what they said, however by the power of His Holy Spirit, I heard from the Lord at the age of five years old, "You ARE going to be a doctor." With the odds stacked against me and nothing looking like it was going to work out and my own family discouraging me, I was ready to give up until the Lord showed up and through various confirmation said, "Kia, stop worrying. I have you. I, the Soverign Lord have spoken that you will be a doctor." I have been shouting from the rooftops since I was a child that I would be a doctor but I faced a lot of discouragement in many ways and the discouragement I recieved seemed very logical and made perfect sense, but Gods ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. As I was reading this passge, it became so real to me. Even now, I face discouragement both natural and supernatural when it comes to schools with lots of "founded" fears and I say, "Lord, maybe this isnt what you have for me, maybe medical school and missions is not what you have...look at the giants, look at the desert...I am going to be invaded." And the Lord, faithful as He is comes again and says, "My daughter stop worrying..."...one of the my favorite song lyrics is "that which He's spoken Hes faithful to perform; It will come to pass" from the song Faithful to Believe.
I have been supernaturally recharged by this verses that no matter how things may look or what people may say will or will not work, at the end of the day, God is SOVEREIGN. And He and He alone has the final word. I have no idea what you are facing today...be it finances, marital problems, lost children, lost parents, loneliness, depression, wondering how Gods promisies will work out or wondering how something that God promised specifically to you that makes NO sense at all will come to pass espeically when facing discouragement from any avenue....my encouragement to you would be to pray, fight these battles on your knees; search the scriptures and hear what the Lord would say to you about your situation and trust in the nature of God and who He is.
May Gods grace, peace and love through Jesus Christ be with all of you.
God Bless You.
In Him,
Kia
