God is Here........Darlene Zschech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kXV6e0HNV0


Such energy in this live video. I love how they show the cross like a clock ticking. Because it's true. If you don't know Him personally, time is ticking. You never know when your time is up here.

How is it possible to continue to praise God in dark times? First you have to know Him personally. This is the only way. Knowing you never walk alone, that He is Immanuel "God with us." His very presence you can truly feel. Personally to me, it's knowing that He is SO MUCH BIGGER than anything the enemy wants permission to throw at me. Yes, he has to get permission from my Father, and my Daddy will supply every bit of Himself to my situation. When you learn to occupy your mind with all Christ is, EVERYTHING changes. Fear starts to die, and faith rises.

When you go through trials in life, they will either draw you closer to wanting to know God, or you will blame Him and try to handle things on your own. For me personally, it drives me to want to know how Jesus did it. How, and why He ever came to save a sinner like me. How He walked this earth and just showed nothing but love and compassion for the sinners. All He was, was good, yet so many hated Him. How He suffered in the end at the hands of hateful people, when all He did was love, heal people, and tell us the way to life everlasting. I will never understand this kind of ignorance and hate towards Jesus.
One thing I do know, that Jesus my Savior taught me, is that anything I go through good or bad, I pray it brings glory to His Great Name, like He brought to His Father in His darkest moment. We will never have to experience the depths of that darkness Jesus experienced on that cross. There is no better vision of beauty that comes out of a dark moment, than what happened on the cross. (Seeds grow in dark places) It was there, in the torture of the separation from His Father, that new life was found, FOR ALL OF US!!

Yes, some days may feel like a dark tunnel and you want to rush God for answers to shine some light on your troubles. But you hear those old familiar words of His, "Be anxious for nothing, pray, talk to me, spend time with me. I am going to teach you a lot about me here." You realize you can't fight God's will and authority, so you begin to submit to it and find the rest that Jesus promises when the load is heavy. You realize "God is here." He is in this with me.

I believe like it says in Job 23: 10-11 "He knows the way I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold. My feet have closely followed His steps; I have kept His way without turning aside." Great word!!!! I will never turn from God no matter what the enemy throws. This life is only temporary.

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Kim