God gives eternal encouragement and hope.. 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17, state: May our LOrd Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
We all some point in our life need encouragement. Sometimes that someone may be a widower, Mother, grandmother, sister, brother, Father, Teacher, Boss, co-worker or etc. I feel like if I am the one that needs it then there is bound to be someone who feels the same as me. I know my Jesus endured every emotion possible during his crucifixion. I know my God my father may be the only one that I can cry out to and Him understand my heart when I need understanding.
I know in my specific situation, when my back is against the wall, the song "Cry out to Jesus" comes to mind. I find comfort in his word. Today I was faced with a battle that I could have chose to be like the "world" and react with anger from being hurt. When people make up ridiculous stories to do nothing to bring you heart ache and pain when you have done nothing but try to be the encouragement you so thought they needed. I often ask myself why people just flat out lie. Why would someone do that? Anyways... I know that if I just pass it over to God he will make all the times I've been wronged right and there is no reason for me to make my character questionable. God wants to be our DEFENDER... he wants to be the one to rescue us in our storm.
I have come to realize today that I need Jesus to be my best friend. I need him to rescue me. I need him to talk to me, walk with me and lead me in the way I need to go. I need him to open my eyes, make me sensitive to His spirit and humble. I want to be the light that he has called me to be...
So if I am talking to you tonight just know: We have an awesome God that died on Calvary for us. When I sit and think about what I have come to say tonight, I think that maybe I am being selfish to complain. I have been very blessed. I have got a job, kids that I was told by doctors that I would never have without Fertility treatments, a wonderful husband that has forgave me for things that were unexceptable, and friends that love me for me. I have not ever lost someone that I was very close to, but I have been blessed with a gift that sometimes I feel like I can actually feel others pain literally when they are hurt. I love people. I am sometimes too compassionate. I feel I can read people, their reactions, their emotions, and I have a strong desire to be a fixer, to be a mother, to be everything they need to be. I have always wondered regardless of the mess that I cause my self from stupidity..... I ask God and myself, why do people feel the need to unload on me? I know that I have been blessed with a prophetic gift and maybe that is why people come..... I usually can offer just what they need and that is if I am right with God where "I" need to be. I trust that maybe you feel I am giving a sermon... But if I can change the life of one person.. I want to. I want people to know that I lived for Christ... remember that does not make me perfect but that makes me Human.
Before I go I would like to introduce a very special lady in my life and that would be:
Barbara Helen Chandler and some may know her last name as Ferguson... She is the woman I admire most in this whole world. I could only hope to be as kind, loving and selfless as her. She is my granny. She is the love of my heart, my earthly encourager and she is great. She is pretty cool too. She would give her last dollar and literally pick you up walking down HWY 8 after a argument you and your husband have cause you hit a deer, yes... this is for real. I refused to get back in the car cause he yelled at me. Yes I was crying like a baby and acted on my emotion and how I felt.. (sometimes) not the best idea! She was traveling in the dark up and down the road to find me. She will travel 6 hours to be in the prep room at the hospital before surgery when your real mother can find excuses not to be there. She is my HEART, If there is one person that I think that has left the best impression in my life it is my Granny. I love you Granny if you ever get the internet so you can read this.
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