I am asking for prayer for my husband Mike, as we begin a battle with stage 4 lung cancer. I praise God that I know my husband is a child of our Great God. He has a better faith and strength attitude than I do in this. I know God has given me the gift of writing and encouraging others, but now I am asking for that prayer for me in this area of fear. I know God is good and that NOTHING is impossible for Him. So now we hold very tightly to Him, and to each other with GREAT HOPE!!! I can hear God say to me, “Will you still love me in good and bad times?” YES LORD, I WILL!
“Don’t stop the madness, don’t stop the chaos, don’t stop the pain surrounding me. Do whatever it takes to give me Your heart, and bring me down to my knees.”
God promised our pain won’t be meaningless. If we are willing to be like clay in His hands, He will take all our broken pieces and make something beautiful.
Jeremiah 18: 6 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does? Declares the Lord. Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in My hand.”
Are you willing to be like clay? God is determined and patient towards us. I am so thankful that He doesn’t throw the bad defective pieces of clay (me) away. He starts over with us as long as we are willing. God doesn’t make mistakes. Exodus 32: 9 We are the “stiff neck stubborn people.” We have a lot of defects that God will continually work on in us. The potter has the power over the clay to permit the defect or reshape it. This is a great visual of God having the power to continue to reshape us for His purposes. That is what being a Christian is. Being Christ like, is being made into His image. We should be like clay in His hands. Letting Him shape us, not us fighting against Him.
God is faithful. He will never forsake us. The things He wants for us is so much better than what we want for ourselves. His plan is to work in us and through us for His purposes. God will continue to shape and mold us until the final day when we get to go home and be wrapped up in His arms.
Another way to look at being reshaped, is in John 15: 1-11. We who are willing, are constantly being shaped, pruned, and we are either in, or we can tell God we want out. I would much rather be in, than be cast into the fire.
“Any branch in me that does not bear fruit, He cuts away and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit…..If you do not remain in Me, you are like a branch that is thrown……into the fire and burned.
Even though being a follower of Christ is not easy, you certainly NEVER walk alone! I’m in, are you?
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Kim
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