Calling on all wounded, hurting, and faking it to you make it leaders. Come out, come out, wherever you are! The LORD is calling you out of your secret hurting hiding place.
If you are tired of playing "hide & seek", I've come to let you know that you don't need to hide anymore; God has real people to help you with your REAL ISSUE.
I know it's hard as leaders to be transparent about what you...
are undergoing; trying to be strong for the many that look up to you. You don't have to pretend to "be strong" to the point of doing yourself injustice; to the point of missing out on jumping into the troubled waters.
If it hurts, find a spiritual mother or father, spiritual mentor of integrity to talk to. It only gets worse when you keep SILENT; SILENT like that child who has been molested and has been told or scared into not telling.
If you are dying, why sit there and die? Cry out in the name of Jesus; for surely the LORD will make a way of escape. But when He does, take it, for no man is an island.
Not everyone is out to harm you or cause you ill. Not everyone wishes you to fail or fall. Not everyone GOSSIPS. You don't have to pray with one eye opened as some have been taught.
Just because you have had some bad experiences does not conclude EVERYONE functions like that. There are some real comrades on the field of life, ordained, anointed, and appointed by God to help rescue you. Many of us have been RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE!
SEND out your S.O.S. signal so that the soldiers can find you. Fulfill your assignment until the LORD sends help. If He sends you a ship, take it. If He sends you a boat, take it. If He sends you a dingy, take it. If He throws you out a life preserver, take it.
It may not come wrapped or packaged by your expectations - that's pride. Naaman was a proud man and was commanded to dip in the River Jordan seven times to be cleansed. My point - the River Jordan was not the cleanest of rivers. But his obedience to do what the man of God instructed reaped a great reward - his healing. Read 1 Kings 5.
When a man becomes desperate enough to be free, not even pride can keep him from receiving. When a woman is in labor and the baby is about to be born, the shame of "spreading it" leaves. All she wants to do is to push the baby out as she becomes vulnerable and places her trust in the midwives and doctors God has assigned to assist her.
You've got to come to a place of desperation; a place that seeks whatever and however God desires to do it.
If you are desperate enough to be free from that hurt, from that secret, from that pain that haunts and taunts you in the solitude of your midnight hour, then I say CRY OUT. Call upon Jesus and He will send an answer.
The question then remains, will you accept the answer when it comes. Will you embrace the opportunity or the life-preserver thrown to you or will you allow pride to continue to drive your life into a deeper state of horror?
He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit of God is saying.
~Narda Goodson, 2012 Narda Goodson Ministries - July 28, 2012 9:23 PM
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