Post by Messenger on Aug 5, 2005 21:02:19 GMT -5
I would like to talk today about when it is time to commit an issue totally to the Lord!
How many times have we found ourselves praying for something that was really important to us, but never seemed to get an answer back from God?
I know that there have been two times that I have found myself in that situation!
There was a girl on the very first Christian website that I joined, who suffered from Bi-polar disorder. I could relate to her, because like her, I too had attempted suicide more than once. I was praying like crazy for her to come to know the Lord. I prayed & prayed, but I never seemed to get any results from my prayers. My prayers had become monotonous, there was no passion behind them. Finally, I came before the Lord, & told Him that I felt that I wasn't getting anywhere with my prayers, & He told me to totally commit all my concern to Him, & He would deal with it. Well, I commited all my concern for this girl totally & compleatly to Him, & began to feel as if a great burden was lifted from me. Since that day, while I still have thoughts about this girl, I have been able to get back on with my life, & press forward with what the Lord wanted me to do!
My second instance with totally commiting something to the Lord was compleatly different! This concerned my second younger brother. Both he, & the rest of his family are also Believers. Shortly after I came back to the Lord, I sent him an e-mail, telling him about what had happened! Well, the response that I got back was not what I had expected! He didn't believe me! I was absolutly crushed! Here I was, wanting him to share in the joy that I knew, & he didn't believe me, even after several additional e-mails! Well, I was so upset about this, that I even set up a time to talk to my pastor about this, about how hurt I was, that my OWN brother didn't believe me! He told me the exact same thing that I had done with this girl I mentioned earlier! But it was a lot harder, because this was family! But I soon came to see the wisdom, (& my pastor is a very wise man!), of what he said to me! When I commited this issue to the Lord as well, once again, the burden of hurt started to lift from me, & again, I was able to get on with my life!. I remember that verse in Phillipians 4:6, that says-"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Is there something that you have been praying about for what seems like forever? Do you feel that you are getting nowhere, & your praying is nothing but a burden on you? Maybe it is time to do exactly what I did-commit the entire situation-lock, stock & barrel, over to the Lord? That is what He is here for-for us to give even the most hopeless situations to Him, & say-"Lord Jesus, I can't dael with this situation any longer. I give it totally to You, because You & You alone are the only one who can handle it!"
Like that infomercial for a Roncco product that says, 'SET IT & FORGET IT, " we too, need to set all our impossible situations at the foot of the cross, & let Jesus deal with them, because all it is doing, is interfering with the kind of lives that our Lord WANTS us to live-a joyful & growing realtionship with Him!
Be Blessed!
Bill
How many times have we found ourselves praying for something that was really important to us, but never seemed to get an answer back from God?
I know that there have been two times that I have found myself in that situation!
There was a girl on the very first Christian website that I joined, who suffered from Bi-polar disorder. I could relate to her, because like her, I too had attempted suicide more than once. I was praying like crazy for her to come to know the Lord. I prayed & prayed, but I never seemed to get any results from my prayers. My prayers had become monotonous, there was no passion behind them. Finally, I came before the Lord, & told Him that I felt that I wasn't getting anywhere with my prayers, & He told me to totally commit all my concern to Him, & He would deal with it. Well, I commited all my concern for this girl totally & compleatly to Him, & began to feel as if a great burden was lifted from me. Since that day, while I still have thoughts about this girl, I have been able to get back on with my life, & press forward with what the Lord wanted me to do!
My second instance with totally commiting something to the Lord was compleatly different! This concerned my second younger brother. Both he, & the rest of his family are also Believers. Shortly after I came back to the Lord, I sent him an e-mail, telling him about what had happened! Well, the response that I got back was not what I had expected! He didn't believe me! I was absolutly crushed! Here I was, wanting him to share in the joy that I knew, & he didn't believe me, even after several additional e-mails! Well, I was so upset about this, that I even set up a time to talk to my pastor about this, about how hurt I was, that my OWN brother didn't believe me! He told me the exact same thing that I had done with this girl I mentioned earlier! But it was a lot harder, because this was family! But I soon came to see the wisdom, (& my pastor is a very wise man!), of what he said to me! When I commited this issue to the Lord as well, once again, the burden of hurt started to lift from me, & again, I was able to get on with my life!. I remember that verse in Phillipians 4:6, that says-"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Is there something that you have been praying about for what seems like forever? Do you feel that you are getting nowhere, & your praying is nothing but a burden on you? Maybe it is time to do exactly what I did-commit the entire situation-lock, stock & barrel, over to the Lord? That is what He is here for-for us to give even the most hopeless situations to Him, & say-"Lord Jesus, I can't dael with this situation any longer. I give it totally to You, because You & You alone are the only one who can handle it!"
Like that infomercial for a Roncco product that says, 'SET IT & FORGET IT, " we too, need to set all our impossible situations at the foot of the cross, & let Jesus deal with them, because all it is doing, is interfering with the kind of lives that our Lord WANTS us to live-a joyful & growing realtionship with Him!
Be Blessed!
Bill
