Sovereign Tuesday, July 01, 2008

This is a testimony we received that we all can relate to.

He was the most subtle beast of the field... And he still is. With the number of years Satan has had to work on his strategy, we are nothing against his tactics. But GOD is, and "greater is He that's within me! These last few days I had one of the biggest trials I've had in quite a while. It started out to be one or two things, things that I thought I could handle. But leaving me no time to get over those problems, Satan snowballed me.

He used my friends against me at first. They hurt my feelings again and again without meaning to or even realizing it. My only defense was to numb myself to it until the Lord made it better. It didn't get better. Then he dropped a bomb on me with a certain family issue that is very close to my heart. It felt like my heart was going to shatter.

While trying to trust the Lord with the outcome, feeling like I had no faith at all, Satan hits me with my job. That was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Being a "forever optimist" that always tries to look for a ray of sunshine in the midst of a storm, here I was feeling like I had no friend to lean on, feeling like a failure at anything I tried to do, feeling helpless and hopeless. I closed my eyes. I didn't care if there was a ray of sunshine out there anymore. If there was one, I didn't even want to see it. My life was crumbling in pieces around me, and all I wanted to do was find a quiet corner somewhere to be alone and cry. I couldn't even do that because I was at work, surrounded by people needing my attention. Then something dropped in my heart in the midst of the chaos. Just one quiet, little word with a very big meaning... SOVEREIGN

Stunned by this revelation, I tested it. What could it mean to me? I laid each of my burdens, one by one, in front of it. Each time the answer came back: "TRUST ME." Then I started to back that up with every quote and verse I could think of, and God showed me His goodness. Everything didn't just magically disappear, but He became my satisfying portion, my peace in the midst of the storm, and my fortress until it passed over. All the glory goes to Him. Praise His Name!

"What? What? The sovereignty of God! See? The prayer and faith of that poor, little, insignificant Negro woman, grounded that plane and held it there. He's the same God that could stop and turn around to a blind beggar at the--at the walls of Jericho. He's the same God yesterday, today, and forever." 64-0620E