This is a message I sent to a brother of mine who gave a very compelling testimony on FB tonight about his walk in the ministry of photography for a large campus ministry at my school. It is about losing access to the gift God has given you. God has been speaking to me concerning this for a while and I had to share this with you as he drew it out of me. Be blessed! =)
""In a sense, I had placed my gift so far above God that I was hardly paying Him or anything connected to Him any attention." This was powerful bro. This is something that is SO easy to do. Jesus said,"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you." Jesus was not only saying He would die for us, but that, when He asked us even to die for Him, that if we would do it, then we are His friends. But we have to die to our "selves" before He can resurrect us into glory.
It's so hard to lose hold of our gift it's just like when Elisha prophesied to the Shunammite woman that she would have a son, and she did, and then her son died. But just as God resurrected that boy through Elisha God promises to us that He will also resurrect our gift and allow us to walk in the fullness of it when we are willing to submit all to Him admitting that He Alone was the reason we had the gift in the first place, and it is He Alone Whom we need. In that, we leave it in His hands to resurrect and that is hard.
Funny along the way, the enemy gives us false enemies. People who seem to be instigating us to be grievous about our lack. Like Hannah had the other wife causing her grief when she was barren. This is when it goes past forgiveness to just plain loving our enemies and blessing those that curse us. God put it to me this way, Jesus loved Judas even though He knew that Judas was going to betray Him. And Judas helped Jesus get to His cross. Our "enemies" help us get to where we will carry our own cross too. And once we have died to our flesh God can resurrect us into glory.
Bro, you are blessed that this time of trial was 5 months (though they were so grievously long to endure at times) because some of the trials we have to face take many, many years. But just as Elisha saw that boy resurrected, and just as Hannah conceived Samuel, even as Joseph became the savior to all of Israel, and David was crowned king in spite of being "wanted", even as Christ was raised from the dead in 3 days, God has promised to us that He will also resurrect the gifts which He has given us so that we can be used for His glory. "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him." Because God's goodness leads us even to repentance because He is much more righteous than we are and He loves us so much more than we love ourselves."
Be blessed and even if you feel like you want to run, run to God, not to the world. The squeeze is there to prepare you for greater things! God loves us and He wants to brings us into His fullness. God makes everything beautiful In His Time. God bless you tonight =)
~Precious
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