Forget the madness...

Social distancing, schooling at home, unemployment,
Covid-19, wear a mask, don't wear a mask, isolation,
violence, unpaid bills, illness... where does it end? 

We all will agree that 2020 will not go down in history as the year we will fondly remember - at least not the first 7 months.  I have limited myself to what I listen to, what I watch and read.   

I am prayerfully spending more time thinking on my life and just "what" God would expect of me in these times.  God is fully aware of my feelings, my circumstances and "where" I am in my walk of faith. 

"Where" we are in our faith will determine just "how" we handle all this world is throwing at us right now.  So where are you?   

Are you feeling as if the world is crumbling around you?   

Or can you take each day and trial as it comes, and let God enable you to cope? 

Enable...hmmm. 
Letting God "enable" you is allowing Him to provide the means or the opportunity to cope.  It is letting God make it possible for you to weather these storms that are hitting  one after the other.  Are you looking to God to enable you to face each storm?  

Honestly... this is the only way I have been able to step forward in this walk of life. 

The last 12 years have been hard, very hard.  Yet, the last 12 years have given me a much stronger relationship with my Lord and Savior!  Only through His strength have I been enabled to endure.  Of course, I still do find it difficult at times to say that I consider my trials a joy. 

"I consider it all joy to encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of my faith produces endurance."   (James 1: 2-4)   

Do I really consider it a joy to go through this?  If I understand that God is preparing me and molding me, I will come to be able to say this. 


Endurance... yes God will enable us to endure.  He enables us to face the trial and then He lovingly creates in us the endurance.

So how are you coping? 

Have you taken the opportunity that is to be found in these trials to build a solid relationship with the Lord? 

Have you seen God work in your life enabling you to weather the trials? 

If not... I urge you not to miss allowing Him to work in your life. 

Don't miss it!   
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He truly waits for you to come to Him -  bear your heart, cry out and give Him all of your burdens, ask Him to work through and in you to endure. 

​As we are enabled by God to endure these times, we can look with wonder and anticipation at how, one day, He will use me, His servant, an ordinary woman of faith, to help another as they go through their own circumstance.  

Indeed, as you come through your trial and encounter that person He desires you to strength with your words, you will be able to say, "Yes, I have been there and God gave me His strength to enable me to endure the circumstance.  Let me tell you my story!"

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Be still and silent.  Listen for His voice. 

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A bit on encouragement as your spend time talking with God...

Remember dear friend in faith... 
​        God knows the end from the beginning!  

There is nothing that happens in your life that has not passed 
by His eyes first.

Pray, for He to enable you to endure - then to help another. 
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