Push

Growing up I heard the word of God in a general sense. God loves us. We all know that God loves us right? He hears our prayers, He is a divine being, and we should go to church every Sunday. These beliefs are pretty general.

I remember sitting in church and not really being penetrated by the word. I respected God. I believed in God, but I would not allow Him to have full access to me. I saw the older people around me being what I have come to know as being “transformed”. I did not understand the word transformed because it had not happened to me. I did not know, or rather I did not pay attention to the presence of God in my life. I mean His true presence. I did not really understand the realness of God until I got saved for the first time at the age of 16. I used to feel this tugging of what I now know to be the Holy Spirit pulling on my heart during the alter call but I would never go. Well, one Sunday I went. I almost felt a holy push to get up. You need to know that God can push you out of and through situations that you may be facing to get closer to Him. I realize now as I write this that I really can’t take credit for my own salvation. There is and was noting that I could do to make God love me. It is by grace through faith that we are saved. I’m thankful for the grace of God but I did eventually backslide a short time later. You need to know that God is married to the back sliders. He loves you. He loved me enough to watch over me despite my sin and continually invite me back in to His arms. It is us who moves away from God. God said that he would never leave nor forsake us. I forsook God because I did not understand the tactics of the enemy. I didn’t understand that my world would turn up side down the moment that I said yes to God. I was even afraid of the Holy Spirit for many years. I blamed Him for the things that I went through mentally, but I now know that I have to be transformed by the renewing of my mind and that my mind is a battle field. Child of God, don’t be afraid of the enemy. Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.

If you are having a hard time in your walk, know that God loves you and that he has not left you. He is near to the broken hearted. Greater is coming. Hold on to the promises of God and He will not fail you. This hard place is growth. Allow God to use you even in this.

Do you know that we go through things to help other people? All things are working together for the good of those that love Him. Please seek the Lord like never before. Your book, your business, your message is in this pain that you are going through right now. You are about to come out with something greater. Push through. You’re anointing in this thing that you facing.

You are learning how to fight. Israel also had to learn how to fight. The land was already theirs but they still had to fight for it. Each time that they listened to the Lord they came out victorious. This is not the time to stop listening to God. That thing that you are hearing that you have never heard of before is a new strategy from the Lord. He is fighting on your behalf. Stop stressing and just trust Him.

When a woman is pregnant she goes through some pain and some discomfort before the baby comes. There comes a season when the appointed time to give birth arrives and that woman has to push. What you are seeing is birthing pains that are preparing you to push out your destiny. What have you been feeding that dream that the Lord has placed on the inside of you? You need to protect your belly child of God. Things are coming at you that are trying to bump up against your gift. Watch who you allow to touch your belly while you are carrying

Surround yourself with people that love God. If you don’t know anyone that loves Him pray and ask God to send divinely appointed people into your life. If this is a season of being alone with God, cherish it. Being alone with God is such a special place to be in. There is nothing like knowing the love of God on a one to one basis. I pray that you will have a one on one relationship with the father. I pray that you feel His love for you. Yes God loves you, but there is nothing like when God targets you individually with His love. Baby boy or baby girl, He knows your name. Yes you! He knows who you are! I pray the love of God over each and every one of you. There are times when you just need to know that God loves you. I pray that the Lord will give you a hug that only He can give and I pray that you know that it is Him that is loving on you. No matter what you are facing or what things look like, you have to push through! God loves you sooooooooooooo much <3 In Jesus name.

Recommended Reading: 1 Corinthians 13 (NLT); Romans 8: 38-39; Ephesians 3

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