Category Archives: Strength

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Even the Son of God needed help

For the past year and a half I have struggled  with chronic facial pain.  At times it feels like I am “The Man in the Iron Mask” or like I have had multiple facelifts and chemical peels.  After multiple MRIs and CAT scans and trips to the neurosurgeon’s office and a lot of money, I still have no answers and no treatment plan.   Unless God heals me, I’m stuck with this pain for the rest of my life. I’m 45, so I have a lot of years left to live.  And the thought of living the rest of my life with this  pain is not a happy thought.

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When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the Rock…

All I could do was stare at the screen on my Kindle.  I was in the middle of a great Civil War book, but my eyes glazed over as the words blurred before me.  Minutes passed by.  No words can describe the depth of despair that I was feeling.  Life had kicked me in the gut again.

As I wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes with my pillowcase, I prayed for help.  What I wanted to pray was that I would just die in the middle of the night and not wake up to my life the next day.  I felt somewhat justified in this desire to die.  I had found in 1 Kings 19:4 that Elijah the prophet, a man of great faith and power, had also experienced a similar weak moment.  He was running for his life from Jezebel and found himself under a juniper tree.  There he prayed that he would die.  He said, “God, I’ve had enough.  Take me now.”

Those were my sentiments exactly.

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Four Powerful Words that Scream “I love you” Part 2

In Part 1 of this post, we discussed that many times when faced with struggling friends, we take the passive way out and say, “Let me know if you need anything.”  I believe that instead we should learn to say,

How can I help?

What can I do?

Do you need anything?

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These words say that I am here, ready to serve, willing to help, just waiting for you to tell me what to do.

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Today’s weakness yields tomorrow’s strength

The praise and worship was wonderful, and I was enjoying every minute of it.  But the men who comprised the worship  band were an unlikely combination.  The twenty-something pianist and drummer had a hippie look going on….long hair and a scraggly beard.  The teenage guitarist had a youthful, boyish face.  Then there was the middle-aged and straight-laced backup singer.

He stuck out like a sore thumb.  The other band members were sporting their ratty T-shirts and blue jeans, and this gentleman had on a brightly-colored ironed golf shirt and neatly-pressed slacks.  His hair was closely cropped and at nine o’clock at night he did not even have a five o’clock shadow.

One of these things was not like the others.

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