Late Night Message: For Those Who Need Encouragement to Keep Going
As long as you’re breathing, you have a testimony to tell. My daddy used to say that when you are far from God in life, making choices that bring no life out of emotions, God will bring you (his child) to your knees. It may be the worst thing that brings you to your knees. Still, when you get to that place where you feel so weak and broken and just limp and confused, you get to a place where you have no choice but to run to Him and cry out like a little girl to her daddy, needing just Him. Then you realize nothing else matters but life with God, and He will bring everything else together. He is near the brokenhearted and brings strength in your weakness, as it is written in Psalms.
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.Psalm 34:18
The weaker you feel, the more you know he is closest. It is written,
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
I am there, too, but I try to choose to remember to breathe and change my perspective most of the day. Change your focus on Him. Your identity is in Christ, and if you have not experienced that relationship with Him, then you will continue to feel lost because He has already told you who you are, and the world is trying to confuse you mentally, emotionally, and spiritually to be conformed in what they say you are resulting in where you are today. Your body naturally knows he created it in His image, and we can read that in Genesis.
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27
Or when Paul writes,
Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
Thanksgiving and Prayer
For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
Ephesians 1:3-23
Sister, keep going. Do not give up in Spirit. You are loved, and your testimony through Christ needs to be told so that you can testify the good news to those who need to hear about Jesus. For those who are wearing the shoes you once wore. Even outside of others, you, sister, need to receive this.
Father,
I pray that you allow my sister, with a heavy heart, to receive your presence right now. I pray that you will change the atmosphere in her room and house right now so that she is aware that you are present with her. Allow her not to have to feel big and brave, but allow her to feel like a child being held by her Heavenly Father. A Father who is purely in love with His child. I pray that you will open her heart, mind, ears, and eyes to receive that she is enough and that everything will be okay. Although she has barely come so far on her own, she can now surrender her last efforts to you and give her life to you, knowing that you will carry out the rest of her life in your hands. You have already written her story and made her path straight in your will. Father, please allow your daughter to trust and believe you. To believe in the name of Jesus. Father, let her identity be made known to her mental state so that she can boldly walk in it, declaring truth left and right. Father, I just love my sister and hope that you use this to encourage her. If you could send the right people, or speak to her in the way that works best for her, this week to encourage her to keep going, I would greatly appreciate it. In Jesus’ name, Amen!
I love you and want to say, keep going! Never stop running your race. You are a force to be reckoned with. Know who has your back and whose hands your life is in. You got this because He got you!
