What Is Going On?

[Truly Blessed]

Does anyone besides myself at times wonder "What's going on?" I came across this article in my files the other day and thought it might be worth sharing.


What Is Going On?
By: Jewel Diamond, Motivational Speaker


Yes, there will be times when you’re at a crossroads and you’re waiting for a breakthrough, but you feel like you are having a breakdown, and you’re wondering, “What’s going on?”

I think if you look at it from a higher perspective and in a spiritual way you will begin to realize that sometimes the problems, the setbacks, and disappointments are meant to either direct you, inspect you, correct you, protect you, or perfect you.

Think of the situation you’re going through right now. Is it God’s way of directing you on a new path, in a new direction, to a new way of thinking, a new way of living, or a new job?

Is the situation an opportunity for God to inspect you to really see where is your faith, where is your courage, where is your integrity, where is your stamina? It’s so easy to be positive and have faith when everything is going well, but we’ll be inspected to see if we have faith and endurance when we come through the difficult times.

Or is the situation God’s way of correcting you? Perhaps you’re making the wrong choices, maybe lacking faith or good judgment, maybe you keep repeating the same thing over and over again hoping to get different results, but you’re not, and it’s an opportunity now to correct you and put you on the right track.

Or maybe the situation is meant to protect you. Sometimes the very thing we want we don’t need in our lives because we’re not ready for it, or it’s not the best thing for us. Sometimes our blessings come in a disguise to protect us from harm.

Sometimes the things you are going through are meant to perfect you, to make you stronger, wiser, more loving, more empowered, more encouraged, to have better judgment, more compassion, more faith, to have more courage, or to have more character.

My friend, I don’t know what you’re going through, but look to see if God is trying to direct you, inspect you, correct you, protect you, or perfect you.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

This would have fiet on the Bitter but not Broken thread...

[SDG]

I've been asking myself that question for the last 2 years now ....

[LadyChocolate]

Originally Posted by Truly Blessed

Does anyone besides myself at times wonder "What's going on?" I came across this article in my files the other day and thought it might be worth sharing.


What Is Going On?
By: Jewel Diamond, Motivational Speaker


Yes, there will be times when you’re at a crossroads and you’re waiting for a breakthrough, but you feel like you are having a breakdown, and you’re wondering, “What’s going on?”

I think if you look at it from a higher perspective and in a spiritual way you will begin to realize that sometimes the problems, the setbacks, and disappointments are meant to either direct you, inspect you, correct you, protect you, or perfect you.

Think of the situation you’re going through right now. Is it God’s way of directing you on a new path, in a new direction, to a new way of thinking, a new way of living, or a new job?

Is the situation an opportunity for God to inspect you to really see where is your faith, where is your courage, where is your integrity, where is your stamina? It’s so easy to be positive and have faith when everything is going well, but we’ll be inspected to see if we have faith and endurance when we come through the difficult times.

Or is the situation God’s way of correcting you? Perhaps you’re making the wrong choices, maybe lacking faith or good judgment, maybe you keep repeating the same thing over and over again hoping to get different results, but you’re not, and it’s an opportunity now to correct you and put you on the right track.

Or maybe the situation is meant to protect you. Sometimes the very thing we want we don’t need in our lives because we’re not ready for it, or it’s not the best thing for us. Sometimes our blessings come in a disguise to protect us from harm.

Sometimes the things you are going through are meant to perfect you, to make you stronger, wiser, more loving, more empowered, more encouraged, to have better judgment, more compassion, more faith, to have more courage, or to have more character.

My friend, I don’t know what you’re going through, but look to see if God is trying to direct you, inspect you, correct you, protect you, or perfect you.

T'aint right at all for you to be reading my mail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very good... This is one of those things that you know deep down within but you still have to convince yourself of God's hand in your life.... It's like your soul knows it but your mind is having trouble comprehending.....

[Truly Blessed]

Originally Posted by LadyChocolate

T'aint right at all for you to be reading my mail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very good... This is one of those things that you know deep down within but you still have to convince yourself of God's hand in your life.... It's like your soul knows it but your mind is having trouble comprehending.....

SO TRUE!

[Barb]

Excellent, TB...thank you!!

[Truly Blessed]

If the example of Jesus teaches us anything, His wilderness temptation reveals that being led of the Spirit often leads us to a place of inspection. What we have to remember is that although Luke 4:1 informs us that Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness temptation, verese 14 reveals that "Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit."

It has been my observation during a lifetime of serving the Lord, that it's not the popular demonstrative Pentecostal worship that empowers a believer. Worship certainly refreshes, but refreshing is not the same as empowerment. It's in the trials of my life that I have discovered the grace of God and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit that opens a person's understanding to the will of God and the purpose for certain circumstances.

True empowerment comes when a person, like Jesus in both His wilderness and Gethsemane temptations, is totally surrendered to the greater good of the Kingdom of God, and therefore able to truly say, "Not my will, but YOUR will be done."

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by Truly Blessed

If the example of Jesus teaches us anything, His wilderness temptation reveals that being led of the Spirit often leads us to a place of inspection. What we have to remember is that although Luke 4:1 informs us that Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness temptation, verese 14 reveals that "Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit."

It has been my observation during a lifetime of serving the Lord, that it's not the popular demonstrative Pentecostal worship that empowers a believer. Worship certainly refreshes, but refreshing is not the same as empowerment. It's in the trials of my life that I have discovered the grace of God and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit that opens a person's understanding to the will of God and the purpose for certain circumstances.

True empowerment comes when a person, like Jesus in both His wilderness and Gethsemane temptations, is totally surrendered to the greater good of the Kingdom of God, and therefore able to truly say, "Not my will, but YOUR will be done."

Good post!

Originally Posted by Felicity

Good post!

Brown noser! Suck Up! Just because he's your pastor!

But I do agree... good post!

I'm just trusting and praying that he doesn't give up on me.