My Challenge.....My Change........(Understanding That Your Challenge Is The Tool That God Is Using To Produce Strength In Someone Else)

My challenge....my change.   What is the result of the challenge?   Is it change?    What's changing?   Is it you or the things around you?   Your situation, your circumstances, your level of peace, or your level of power?    When confronted with a challenge, you should leave the situation changed.    After going through.....after being tested.....you should come out stronger.   You should come out with more knowledge.   You should  come out with more understanding of who God is.

Do you really think that God would let you go through what you've been going through for nothing?    There is a reason behind everything that God does.   There is a reason for every test and for every challenge in life.   The question is ..... are you understanding the reason?    Are you understanding that it is your testimony that helps others to make it through?   When they see and know and understand that they too can overcome.   That they too can be healed.   That they too can be free.   Then it deepens their faith.   It deepens their trust.   It deepens their belief.  

For so long we have taken our tests and our challenges personal.   It's not personal.   We have taken  it so personal that we have tried to hide everything that we have been through.   Whether it be out of shame or a lack of understanding we have tried to handle it all on our own.   We have not wanted anyone else to see us in the midst of our battles.    But how is that helping them if we always hide our weaknesses or our trials?     How can they understand that in our weakness yet are we strong in God?  How can they realize God's goodness if they don't understand His deliverance?   We have to understand that our trial.....our struggle.....was not and is not for us.    It is a tool that God is using to show those around us that they too can stand.   They too can make it.   That God in all His goodness and all His grace is "God Enough" to take us through everything that comes against our lives.   

Understand that "our sharing" produces "someone else's strength".   Look through the Bible at the places where the greatest testimonies are shared and notice the strength that has been received to help us believe.   The woman with the issue of blood, blind Bartimaeus, Saul before he became Paul.    What if those stories were never told?  Would your faith be as strong as it is today?   Would you be able to stand and believe God with the same tenacity for His healing and deliverance?   Always remember that you are now the living epistle.....the book that is being written for men to read.   They read you through your pages of life.....your testimony....your change.....your deliverance.    

So I ask you.....will you allow your challenge and your change be the tool that God uses to help someone else to know who God is and what He "wills" to do in their lives?

Worship For Today....

"I Need Your More"

Ministered By Clint Brown